Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Keilar: Texas governor blames winter power outages on windmills" video.

  1. Why on earth aren't they connected to the national grid? That's just plain stupid, in fact if they adhere to free market principles why haven't they been lobbying for connection to Mexico's grid also. However wouldn't have helped right now because Mexico is in the same situation.
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  2. It's not free market at all because they refuse to interconnect to the national grid which naturally increases competition.
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  3.  Calvin Parish  I am Australian and although we aren't doing it perfect some of the schemes in the US are nuts. Even Michael Moore agrees with this, can't remember the name of the documentary and produced by other people but on his Youtube channel , posted maybe a month ago, I can't remember. Both political parties in the US are in on the game, your example is like making ethanol from corn, it makes absolutely no sense, from sugarcane it does however. Michael Moore isn't exactly a crazy right wing person and to his credit willing to criticize both sides of politics.
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  4.  Calvin Parish  thanks for the long reply, I am not as harsh as you and seriously send AOC a letter just explaining things you have directly dealt with that don't make sense, she is a person who will likely read it as long as it gets past her staff who might read it first. To guard against this possibility write the word confidential on the front of the envelope underlined and assuming it means the same thing as in Australia nobody can open it but her unless I guess she authorises that. My impression from the clips of her is she will go into details and consider the matter seriously, not just a person going for votes. Have to send by snail mail though in my opinion because emails are too easily deleted. One thing that would apply to California but not this Texas situation is what South Australia has done, they have the largest lithium ion battery in the world and seems working well with all the systems designed to quickly readjust energy flow. Interestingly they currently have a greater risk of blackout by renewables overloading the system and possibly soon producing more energy at peaks than is used causing the system to crash. Previously they had a heat induced brown or blackouts caused by a lot of wind power that when it got hot stopped working because the wind stopped, maybe same to California , I don't know. You are open to renewables which is good but understand the limitations and the politics which sometimes save no energy and possibly use more in the name of energy savings or carbon emissions.
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  5. Given his experience you would think he would be more compassionate to others. Why didn't he just shut the border and keep covid 19 out, Texas clearly knows it's rights, it's keeping interstate electricity out.
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