(02-17-2021 09:58 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  Additionally, this is not new. This has happened before, and Texas was told to correct it. They didn't.

Quote:To start, experts say, power generators and regulators failed to heed the lessons of 2011 — or for that matter, 1989. In the aftermath of the Super Bowl Sunday blackout a decade ago, federal energy officials warned the grid manager, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas or ERCOT, that Texas power plants had failed to adequately weatherize facilities to protect against cold weather.

A federal report that summer recommended steps including installing heating elements around pipes and increasing the amount of reserve power available before storms, noting many of those same warnings were issued after similar blackouts 22 years earlier and had gone unheeded.

Texas grid fails to weatherize, repeats mistake feds cited 10 years ago

It's time to wake up and grow up. Buffet, Gates, and the like push green energy. Why? Their investment corporations buy the stock in these unproven industries, lobby for it through their paid minions in Washington and popularize the notions getting some states to buy in. The lowball cheap initial offerings of these companies shoot up and they sell and make money, or push some more to try to drive it to even higher profits before they sell. Buffet once pulled political strings to make sure there was no more government funds for railroads then he bought them on the cheap and suggested their improvement for infrastructure on shipping. They got where they are by pressuring for the weakening of industries they want to buy, buying them, and then repurposing them. Or they buy the obscure and use their media holdings to promote them.

The Green New Deal is a boondoggle for the billionaires to use to soak the public and for 3rd World Countries to ignore while the West is taxed over them. It's all socialist crap or a billionaires scam.

We will have cheap clean energy through fusion as soon as the money whores feel like they can't get another nickel out of old sources, or scam remedies, and not a moment sooner.

It's like the cure for cancer. If we had one would the medical industry that profits greatly by its prolonged treatments, pharmaceuticals, and radiology equipment want to retool or worse end such a misery enhancing yet profitable enterprise? Hell no! They are getting billions in donations to find a cure, so why find one! Make the medical industry pay for the current cancer treatments and they start looking for a cure tomorrow. Quit pumping money into "Green Renewable Sources" which can't supply the grid and work in fusion will rapidly advance. But as long as the Power Companies and the Billionaires Barnum club continues we all get soaked. The lefts heroes are crooks and the rights heroes are ensconced yet antiquated money producers. We are screwed either way because innovation is not wanted by either.