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Texas is already the No. 1 state in the the US with the most wind energy capacity. And now it’s catching up to No. 1 California in utility-scale solar capacity.

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10 minutes ago, Carlos Danger said:

Texas has the largest nuclear power plant as well. 

Well diversified and forward thinking. That honor belongs to AZ. 

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Just now, Carlos Danger said:

Yea I would still pick Texas. They do everything plus they have their own ISO and they pump oil and gas.

20% of their power comes from wind. Now with the mega lithium battery farms they can store electricity generated by wind and that percentage will go even higher. They really are leaving the rest of the country in the dust for power generation, diversification, and forward thinking. 

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9 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

20% of their power comes from wind. Now with the mega lithium battery farms they can store electricity generated by wind and that percentage will go even higher. They really are leaving the rest of the country in the dust for power generation, diversification, and forward thinking. 

Always have.

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12 hours ago, Carlos Danger said:

Yea I would still pick Texas. They do everything plus they have their own ISO and they pump oil and gas.

Except that when it gets cold their grid shuts down…..not so good.

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30 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Except that when it gets cold their grid shuts down…..not so good.

Just a coincidence...but as some of the narrative pushers are trying to say, FORWARD THINKING.  He really got his panties in a bunch over my wind energy post. 

 

12 hours ago, spin_dry said:

20% of their power comes from wind. Now with the mega lithium battery farms they can store electricity generated by wind and that percentage will go even higher. They really are leaving the rest of the country in the dust for power generation, diversification, and forward thinking. 

 

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4 minutes ago, racer254 said:

Just a coincidence...but as some of the narrative pushers are trying to say, FORWARD THINKING.  He really got his panties in a bunch over my wind energy post. 

 

 

Not sure what your point is but their NG Plants froze up as well.

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4 minutes ago, Carlos Danger said:

Yea well we had a storm here a few years ago that put most of CT,MA, and NY,NJ out for a few weeks. The grid has issues all over.

I don't think he understands that there have been blackouts before. 

I love how they are comparing TX to CA.  California has to have rolling blackouts because of their ineffective power capabilities.

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4 minutes ago, racer254 said:

I don't think he understands that there have been blackouts before. 

I love how they are comparing TX to CA.  California has to have rolling blackouts because of their ineffective power capabilities.

 

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17 minutes ago, irv said:

 

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Around here they are tossing up solar farms everywhere, cutting down trees in massive swaths to put up solar farms. And they look fucking hideous

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16 minutes ago, Rigid1 said:

Around here they are tossing up solar farms everywhere, cutting down trees in massive swaths to put up solar farms. And they look fucking hideous

Here in Texas and also in Wisconsin. They use existing open land. 

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14 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

Here in Texas and also in Wisconsin. They use existing open land. 

Not here in NY, beautiful meadow right up the road from me, solar farm to supply power to an small economic diversity apartment complex.. all that dark green to the right of northern Blvd is now a solar farm

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1 hour ago, Carlos Danger said:

Yea well we had a storm here a few years ago that put most of CT,MA, and NY,NJ out for a few weeks. The grid has issues all over.

Texas didn't winterize their wind farms, they cheapest out on that part and it cost them. It's a southern climate but they still get winter storms. Kinda dumb. 

We have sever large wind farms about an hour south of me and haven't heard of any disruptions. Midwestern engineering ftmfw!

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5 minutes ago, Rigid1 said:

Not here in NY, beautiful meadow right up the road from me, solar farm to supply power to an small economic diversity apartment complex..

Probably a privately owned piece of land that the owner got a sweet deal for some passive income. Kind of like chopping down a shit load of tress to put up an apartment complex or NG plant.  

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Like most energy production people are all for different types until its near their backyard.  

 

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2 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

Probably a privately owned piece of land that the owner got a sweet deal for some passive income. Kind of like chopping down a shit load of tress to put up an apartment complex or NG plant.  

Was definitely up for sale for over a decade, added a photo of you want to scroll back up

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26 minutes ago, Rigid1 said:

Around here they are tossing up solar farms everywhere, cutting down trees in massive swaths to put up solar farms. And they look fucking hideous

It's insanity. All these alarmists crying climate change/global warming yet are OK with massive amounts of forests/wildlife being razed/ruined just so they can put up solar and wind farms. I never imagined in my life people could be so easily brainwashed. 

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2 minutes ago, Rigid1 said:

Was definitely up for sale for over a decade, added a photo of you want to scroll back up

Farmers in Wisconsin are making a killing by leasing out unused farm land to solar. 

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Like most energy production people are all for different types until its near their backyard.  

 

the biggest hurdle is NIMBY's

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