Comments by "" (@pwillis1589) on "Labor ‘giving the last rites’ to the coal industry: Canavan" video.

Complete falsehood. Coal, gas, and nuclear shut down, wind and solar provide only approx 15% of Texas electricity. Your statement is a total lie.
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Everybody knows Matt Caravans family have significant coal interests, that's why he pushes coal subsidies.
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@Jeff_S... I have considerablely, wind and solar had very little to nothing with it. Regulatory failures and an reluctantance by energy companies to winterise their infrastructure caused the power failure. On a side note the day Texas fell over 100% of electricity provided to the American base in Antarctica came from wind power.
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@oldtimerlee8820 Typical. When caught in a lie create a strawman. I never said wind and solar didn't fail in Texas, they did. Solar never works without sun and the wind turbines in Texas haven't been winterised. The vast majority of power I Texas 82% approx comes from Gas, coal, and nuclear and these all failed. Are you seriously suggesting because a paltry 18% of the network failed the other 82% is blameless. It's a nonsensical fallacious argument.
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@Jeff_S... Utter rubbish. 82% of electricity in Texas is from Gas, coal, and nuclear those systems failed and caused the blackout, wind and solar failed to but only provide an insignificant amount of power to the grid.
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@fugawiaus Absolute rubbish. 82% of power in Texas comes from Gas, oil, and nuclear. It was these systems that failed due to a lack of winterising the infrastructure. Only and Texan would expect to rely on Solar power in the middle of winter. Come on not even you can seriously believe that.
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@fugawiaus Are you seriously suggesting solar which only provides 4.1% of power to the Texas grid was responsible for a gas plant freezing up. If that's the case I have a bridge here in Sydney I'd like to sell you.
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@fugawiaus I don't have a facebook account
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@fugawiaus ERCOT has publicly admitted they only expected 13% from wind which did fail but the 87% expected from Gas, oil, and nuclear also failed. Not only but this has happened before in 2011 and 1989 when wind power didn't even exist. Your argument is nonsensical.
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@fugawiaus never read a tweet in my life nor ever had a Facebook account. I have read multiple accounts of what happened and at no stage ever was or has Texas been even remotely close to relying on wind and solar. The system failed because gas and oil infrastructure was not winterised. Texas had the same power failures in 1989 when wind and solar didn't even exist in the power grid. Your argument is absurd.
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@fugawiaus So why in 2011 and 1989 did Texas have power failures during winter storms. Do you have memory. Wind and solar contributed zero power to the grid in 1989 and approx 5% in 2011. Really is this the best you have.
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@fugawiaus Yes gas, coal , nuclear plants all can shut down if their infrastructure is not winterised as they were encouraged to do after the 2011 power failure. However that costs money and Texas decided to allow the free market to go cheap so Texans could have lower electricity prices. It is laughable to blame wind and solar. ERCOTs own expectation of power from wind on the day of the storm was only 23% which means they were expecting 77% of the power from Gas, oil, and nuclear. Your argument doesn't stack up to actually what really happened.
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@Jeff_S... Everything I have written is backed by fact, ERCOT have publicly stated as much.
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@fugawiaus I have no problems with what you said about wind and solar not working when there is no sun or wind, however that was not what caused the power failure in Texas this year or in 2021 or in 1989 it was gas pipes and infrastructure that froze deal with it.
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@fugawiaus But the gas pumps didn't keep going they froze. The pipes froze and the wells froze. Gas failed and that's why Texas had a blackout.
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@oldtimerlee8820 You have raised several points in the defence of fossil fuels, but as I said your initial comment about what caused the Texas power failure was completely false. The overwhelming reason was the failure of fossil fuel infrastructure not renewables. Wind turbines can easily be winterised as they are in Northwest Canada and the Antarctic. You simply place some carbon fibre heating elements on the blade edges. This is just common public knowledge. Yes waste from solar panels and wind turbines is an issue, however virtually 100% of both systems is recyclable, and you conveniently ignore the waste issues relating to fossil fuels. Green energy can be used to create renewable infrastructure. There are problems with renewables but nothing is unsolvable with a little imagination.
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@oldtimerlee8820 ERCOT concluded that renewable energy sources were the least important factor in the blackouts. Wind energy did underperform its estimates, but solar actually overshot them. The Texas grid collapsed because some 28000 megawatts of coal, gas, and nuclear went off-line. Approximately a third of total capacity. ERCOT failed, because fossil fuels failed and in particular gas. Spin it however you like but the truth is the truth. I never suggested renewables didn't fail as well but they didn't shut down. Wind power was reduced by 32%. You falsely claim they did and this caused the power blackouts. This is just a false claim.
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@oldtimerlee8820 The Texas grid failed because ERCOT did not invest in the proper infrastructure to winterise its means of power production. Texas removed itself from the national grid to avoid regulation that would have ensured this, in an effort to keep electricity cheap. Instead they killed hundreds of Texans through incompetence. Blame your Governer, government and ERCOT, but it is nonsensical to blame wind and solar power. This has all happened before in 2011 and 1989. It is all documented and it will happen again and again and renewable energy has nothing to do with it.
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@fugawiaus Never been on twitter, never been on Facebook but they seem to be your source of all knowledge. There are investigations ongoing, but all preliminary findings are that fossil fuel infrastructure failed as well as some wind. Gas pipes and wells froze. 28000 megawatts of fossil fuel power went offline. That what caused hundreds of Texans to die. Blame your governer, the state legislature, ERCOT management. To try and blame it all on a 32% reduction in expected wind power is just an ideological bent you have that defies reality.
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@fugawiaus It was the Texas government's own incompetence that caused the power failure. Of course they are going to avoid responsibility. Send a reference to the report.
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@fugawiaus ERCOT at no stage during the 21 rolling blackouts relied on wind and solar, at its peak wind and solar provide approx 20% of Texas power and in preparation for the storm ERCOT informed the gas and coal to be ready to ramp up and they failed (spectacularly) even some of the nuclear failed as cooling water froze. I mean this is all public knowledge. The capacity from solar during the storm actually exceeded ERCOT expectations. You can read this all in the report it is plain language than anyone can understand. Don't quote Twitter or Facebook again as your source of information it just makes you look stupid as I have never used either. Once again Texas power failed because 28000 megawatts expected from Gas and coal went off-line. It went off-line as water vapour in the pipes combine with hydo carbons to crate hydrates that solidify at well above frezzing temperature, you can read about this in the report yourself. Clearly your inability to simply reference a report suggests to me you have taken your information from your favourite instagram influencer.
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@fugawiaus Actually the major power failure was during the night when the expected inputs from solar were zero, so yeeessss.
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Nationally at currently 3% she has the respect of every right wing conspiracy theorist for sure.
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