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Last month, millions of Texans lost power after heavy snowfall and historic low temperatures hit the region. Soon after, the term frozen turbines caught on and was repeated by officials, politicians and cable news hosts in an effort to blame renewable energy.
Texas commissioner of agriculture wrote in a Facebook post, shared thousands of times, that we should never build another wind turbine in the state and that more gas, coal and oil infrastructure should be built. To heck with green energy or climate change, he wrote.
That comment and many others were misleading and without context. The Texas Tribune and other local outlets reported the reality, which is that most of the Texas grid s winter capacity is generated by natural gas, coal and some nuclear power sources which also failed amid the storm. Though turbines also went offline due to the severe weather, wind only accounted for a small portion of the state s forecasted winter capacity, according to USA TODAY.
Bird Song of the Day
Owl Week at the Naked Capitalism Water Cooler continues. “Flammulated” is a good candidate for Word of the Day!
#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the next days, or even weeks. Is the virus gathering itself for another leap?
Early in February, I said a simple way to compare Biden’s performance to Trump’s on vaccination would be to compare the slopes of the curves. If Biden accelerated vaccine administration, post-Inaugural slopes would get steeper. They have not. The fragmented, Federalized, and profit-driven lumbering monstrosity that we laughingly call our “health care” “system” has not responded to “energy in the executive,” but has continued on its inertial path.
Mar 10, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) A huge wind farm off the Massachusetts coast is edging closer to federal approval, setting up what the Biden administration hopes will be a model for a sharp increase in offshore wind energy development along the East Coast.
The Vineyard Wind project, south of Martha’s Vineyard near Cape Cod, would create 800 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 400,000 homes in New England. If approved, the $2 billion project would be the first utility-scale wind power development in federal waters. A smaller wind farm operates near Block Island in waters controlled by the state of Rhode Island.
Vineyard Wind is significantly farther offshore than Cape Wind, a previous Massachusetts offshore wind project that famously failed amid opposition from the Kennedy family and businessman William Koch, among others, who considered it a bird-killing eyesore in their ocean views.
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