(08-25-2019 09:56 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(08-25-2019 09:54 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(08-24-2019 11:03 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(08-24-2019 03:09 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-24-2019 03:03 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  That graph (which again stops at 2017) shows we're doing well in reducing the electricity and industry emissions, but horrible in transportation (+22 pct.) and agriculture (+9 pct). I think we need to work harder on trying to get employees working at home and getting incentives to use mass transit where available.

But we are doing well in total, which is what really matters. Of course, the big reason is that fracking has produced a lot of cheap natural gas which is replacing coal. There is also a lot more wind in places like Texas that have deregulated electric utilities. Deregulation is absolutely essential for the economics of renewable energies to work. Texas now leads the US in wind generation.

Drove to Corpus down I-37 2 weeks ago. When we passed the giant wind farm just north of Corpus every single wind turbine as far as we could see (100s) was dead stopped. Figured short-term problem, right? Drove back up I-37 five days later. All wind turbines still dead stopped. All I could think was thank goodness for fossil fuels, and what a massive waste of capital.

Using an anecdote as evidence of the unreliability of wind isn’t super compelling when wind was the 2nd largest producer of energy in the state of Texas for the first half of the year (behind natural gas).

https://www.kut.org/post/texas-has-gener...o-far-year

I make that drive quite a bit right now for work and see the turbines near Corpus churning frequently.

And using your own anecdotal evidence proves your point?

Where did I say wind power was unreliable? I just found it surprising and disturbing that that much capital investment was sitting completely idle on the 2 days within a week that I drove by. Maybe there was a problem, maybe everyone’s Tesla was fully charged.

I too have seen them churning away many times which made the sight of all of them completely still on 2 windy, hot and humid days very strange.

No - providing empirical evidence does.

My point of you own anecdote is that it directly refuted yours, but is worthless without further evidence.