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    Katherine Szabo posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/texas-power-grid-crumples-under-the-cold/
    I have had an uneasy feeling there is far more to the Texas blackouts. They may have taken advantage of the polar vortex to take the state down, maybe take the “winds” of succession of of their sales. Would love to get your take on it.

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      Laura replied 5 years, 2 months ago

      I heard Texas shut down coal under Obama, and the surge demand is irregular so the primed grid is not in sync. The newer green technology is less agile. I hope they stay warm! but I am not that worried. I am somewhat worried that Desantis (FLA) is doing a little too well and they he or FLA could be a target.

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          Sunny & Max replied 5 years, 2 months ago

          Hi Laura,
          I had the same feeling about DeSantis and Florida.

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            justawhoaman replied 5 years, 2 months ago

            They built the “new grid” based on federal incentives, not based on reality. We used to have a nearly impenetrable power grid- now the stupidity has reared its ugly head. In the state with the most oil and natural gas reserves, it is unconscionable.

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              FiatLux replied 5 years, 2 months ago

              Here in Florida hurricane country, I’ve had the same worry about DeSantis and those taking aim at him. Some of the hurricanes these last few years (including that storm that parked itself over Texas and rained for days) have been, let’s say, “very unusual” in their behavior, almost as if they were targeted strikes.

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              DanaThomas replied 5 years, 2 months ago

              Every crisis can be made into an opportunity – the art of war. This applies not only to “them” but to everybody!

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                FiatLux replied 5 years, 2 months ago

                Same feeling here. Yes, it’s mainly normal winter weather, but possibly “helped along” or used as an excuse for blackouts and/or manipulation of the energy markets. If hard-to-believe official explanations and radical policy recommendations follow all this, then that’ll be a clue there was more at work than seasonal weather and pure chance.

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                  Billy Bob replied 5 years, 2 months ago

                  I have been a resident of Texas since 1998 starting in a Houston for 14 years. Cold weather was normal in Wyoming where I grew up. South Texas, (two miles from Mexico’s Rio Grande River border near Mission TX) where I have lived since 2012 has never experienced a cold spell like the one now causing a hell here. I have over the years read of the closing of multiple huge coal fired power plants to make way for the tony green substitutes, all in name of ecology. Millions of people in Texas heat and cool their homes with electricity. Reducing megawatts when Texas used to export exceeds rationality.

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                    Bluenose replied 5 years, 2 months ago

                    https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcarpenter/2021/02/16/why-wind-turbines-in-cold-climates-dont-freeze-de-icing-and-carbon-fiber/?sh=407b2e0a1f59

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                      justawhoaman replied 5 years, 2 months ago

                      If you saw the weather map when they predicted this storm, there was a huge low that they put over N. Utah/Colorado that forced this arctic air straight to TX. Unprecedented- unnatural. Huge hit to the TX economy all the way around. Natural gas went from $3.46 to $377.13, up 32,000% in one day. Lots of lessons learned for the survivors. EFF-U to the NWO Satanists and “told you so” to all the green energy un thinkers. Looking forward to those small nuclear engines that will be driving the system, per that Trump EO, in the future.

                      TEXAGEDDON: A False Flag Geoterrorist Operation With Multiple Nefarious NWO Goals


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