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Re:Power Outages in Texas: An email I sent my principles of ... by pwinnski on Thursday February 18, 2021 @04:25PM (#26185814)
Wind and solar are both currently over-producing. Not "lost half to almost all." That's an almost-certainly deliberate misrepresentation based on the fact that winter production is always lower than summer production, and comparing the total peak capacity on the best possible summer days and comparing it to now.

We had projections for both wind and solar for these last few weeks, and both wind and solar OVER-produced, exceeding those projections.

On the other hand, we had projects for coal and natural gas, and both of us failed spectacularly.

So yes, I am concerned about any article that spends time talking about wind and solar, when the ACTUAL problem that caused it to be 41ºF in my living room was natural gas and coal.

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