> Solar is now the third largest source of electricity in Texas.
Is Texas woke now?

>>105952974 (OP)
Soon we'll all have to be "woke" or else we'll be sucking putin cock like trump.

>>105952974 (OP)
>under 2%
kek

>>105952974 (OP)
>Is Texas woke now?
What?

what’s the other 1.2%? water wheels? hamster wheels? biofuel from slaves?

>>105952974 (OP)
Their energy policy is. Do you want the state that runs out of heat every winter to be your poster child?

>>105952974 (OP)
Good they have too much sun anyway they need to use it up

>>105952974 (OP)
No, it just makes sense.

>”woke” is whatever Daddy Trump or Daddy Elon says is bad

The absolute state of American “free-thinking” conservatives

>>105954665
i remember when they were all about being le skeptics.

>>105953066
This is the source we all need. How do we get under 2% to be the source? Also what are the downsides?

>>105952974 (OP)
Woke is DEI and immigration, not alternative energy. This is some weak bait.

>>105954665
Does Elon say solar is bad now or is this a rent free situation?

>>105952974 (OP)
gas, oil, coal and wind are solar as well

>>105952974 (OP)
>let's save the environment!
>By building gigantic towers of inefficient power sources
>Build them with the dirtiest fucking resins and chemicals known to god
>creates infinite non recyclable garbage every 5-15 years
>kills all the birds that control insect and rodent populations and some of them are pollinators too
Wow, it's like cutting off your nose to improve your sense of smell. At least solar only destroys farmland in the dirtiest capitalism way by inflating energy prices and making "big thinkers" realize that farming is for chumps and choosing to salt the earth with rare metal toxins for the next hundred years, because solar power generates more cash per acre of farmland.

Reminder that "don't mess with Texas" is woke too.
It's from an anti-littering campaign, extreme leftists want to take away your God given right to drop garbage on the ground anywhere you please.

>>105952974 (OP)
Not woke, just dumb, very dumb. Solar is at best a 50% energy, only works during the day and on very good climate conditions, the rest of the time it needs gas, coal, oil, batteries, etc. There is also the Spain's power failure that "totally wasn't Solar's fault". There is also the case that some idiot might decide to combat "global warming" by blocking the sun like in the UK.
Texas should replace it with nuclear.
France, on the other hand IS woke, but is smart, nuclear power provides approximately 70% of the nation's electricity.

>gas
>gas-CC
they use email to boost their power production or what?

>>105959485
Gas combined cycle, the more efficient but slower to startup multistage generation
Gas probably represents only the ones used to supply peak power

>>105952974 (OP)
There is nothing wrong with an all of the above energy policy.

>>105958714
I'm sorry but this is a bit of a dumb take.
Even if you assume there would be no energy storage in the network, having significant solar would help reduce the load on other sources. Also, it actually is renewable, solar panels can be recycled, so once you build enough capacity, you don't need to mine things again and then throw them out. Batteries are also similar, they can be recycled. I'm hoping this part would address the "but it only works during daytime" part.

To address the "but it requires good climate", it's no doubt feasible in Texas. Texas has a climate that's pretty good for solar.

In my opinion, eventually we will go towards a system that has a priority like: renewables > batteries/hydro > nuclear > backup coal/gas. To completely evolve into this, we need more solar and nuclear. I don't think the current nuclear capacity is enough for Texas.

>>105959752
Exactly. There's nothing wrong with using solar to reduce non-renewable consumption and there's nothing wrong with having backup plants to address demand when renewables fluctuate.

It is actually way better than relying on one thing.

It's time we started conserving sunlight. Our sun isn't limitless. It's actuallysmall by star standards. Also the sun is trans.

>>105956497
He owns a company that installs solar panels, so I'm guessing option b