Why is Texas still falling for the clean energy scam

>>508754238 (OP)
solar isnt a scam chud

we have always had clean energy

>>508756156
It's not perfect, but its preferred over wind.
I hear birds catch on fire and become "streamers"
100% efficiency solar panels would be the best. Absorb the radiation and cool an area instead of reflecting back out.

>>508754238 (OP)
Texas is fucking huge with massive deserts. They'd be retarded not to invest in solar and wind in those places.
Battery storage is essential infrastructure if you have inconsistent sources of power (like solar and wind) to drain from the grid in times of surplus and add to the grid in times of deficit.
Natty gas, I'm not sure what problem you could possibly have with that.

>>508758482
or they could just build nuclear plants.

>>508758571
That is thinking in the long term. I hear it takes a long time to pay back those facilities.

>>508758688
better than jumping through millions of hoops with solar/wind/batteries.

>>508758482
Texas solar farms suffer a lot of damage from the weather. They built a huge one less than a mile from me and within months an F0 tornado ripped through, trashing hundreds of panels.

>>508758571
I'm not knocking nuclear. It's a great long term investment. However, it excels at consistent generation. They are throttle-able to a degree, but primarily in large, discrete, steps. You want them producing the minimum energy demand throughout the year.
Something like natural gas can respond to changes in demand near instantly, so you would use that to make up the difference.

Solar and wind, though very inconsistent, can be combined with pumped or battery storage to supplement the grid. It's just another source of energy. Why not use it?

>>508758482
Natural gas for "emissions" is a retarded bookkeeping scam. It would need to be flared by the oil industry if it wasn't captured as a byproduct so using it for energy should be as clean as nuclear energy since it would just go to waste otherwise. Shit like solar/wind cause significant damage to the ecosystem since they require way more urban sprawl (in the sense they drastically change the environment by their building and hurt wildlife) while a natural gas power plant can be closer to the high intensity grid use and throttle up or down to meet demand at any time of the day. Natural gas costs as in input only come from transportation costs to liquidify it and pile it.

>>508756491
>doesn't know the difference between solar panels and solar power towers used in concentrated solar power plants.
CSPs are only used when space is a constraint, and make up less than 1% of solar power, mostly because they suck

There is no such thing a clean energy.

>>508758571
Abilene Christian university is going all in on doing research for small scale nuclear reactors. Pretty cool desu.

>>508754238 (OP)
Too many retard refugees from blue states who came here chasing after tech trends. If they really needed to go green and wanted to be smart about it they would turn the deserts of west texas into vast solar farms and leave the actually nice parts of the state alone. Then again texas is run by a bunch of kike worshipping retards so no hope in intelligent governance

>>508754238 (OP)
Subsidies

Clean energy but trash choking every square inch of the godforsaken hole of hell.

>>508754238 (OP)
>Why is Texas still falling for the clean energy scam
most likely, it was paid for by the federal government's spending spree under biden

>>508761040
This. And the state government is pushing to stop Ercot from wasting money on it when it performs like dogshit during peak load times during the winter months.

>>508760989
That's what happens when you let in a bunch of third worlders. The apartment complex near my house used to be mostly white with some asians and spics. Over the last five years they were all replaced with indians and now these curryniggers are stinking up the surrounding area, moving about every where in groups like a brown block of instant curry

>>508754238 (OP)
texass is full of low iq spics and kike worshipers.

>>508761276
>tries to be racist against indians
>posts Japanese curry

You'll get them next time buddy

>>508758571
you want north mexico to have nuclear plants in 50 years?

>>508761417
You are indian, your opinion is as worthless as your species

>>508761396
Guess that's why they are going there

>>508759579
>Shit like solar/wind cause significant damage to the ecosystem since they require way more urban sprawl (in the sense they drastically change the environment by their building and hurt wildlife)
That's why I emphasized the desert part of the state. Though rooftop solar mostly mitigates the problems associated with it at the cost of generally being less efficient.
The anon earlier made a good point about Texas weather fucking solar systems up proper though.
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>>508761689
that's precisely the reason

>>508758571
too much regulation. industry doesnt want to build it. all this solar is from co-ops anyways, people are even actively searching out new housing in electric co-op areas.

Is there only power outages in Austin because of leftists or the whole state at risk?

>>508756491
solar panel efficiency will literally never exceed 80% in the field. most will be built in china and will never come close to cancelling out their own emissions, not that anybody cares. texans are building these because they fucking print money. big money. why would anyone pay out to their local power company when they can fucking print money with their neighborhood co-op? did i say "can" i meant are required to, you wanna have a lot here? sign up to print money or no power for you!

>>508762204
the true reason is because nuclear power doesn't decolonize systems of white supremacy.

>>508762299
its only after storms, its because idiots want infinite free energy AND data center rights that force their rates to go up forever to pay for it, and have decided to pack themselves in like sardines

>>508762372
this is stellar bait. i consider this thread blessed

It's called making money. You have a big chunk of land. You have windmills and you have cows grazing it. Puts the land to work without having to develop the whole thing.

>>508754238 (OP)
They built a big computer for palantir there and they are getting a crypto stock exchange. Texas is a node for the new technocratic state

>>508762299
there's also the fact that texas essentially has its own powergrid

>>508758482
>>508756491
>>508756156
Texas is a barren shithole that gets extreme weather unlike most of the southwest, unless youre building solar farms out of cheap easy to replace prefabbed panels that take at most an hour to install youre getting fucked on all the constant baseball sized hailstorms and tornados

>>508762834
If they weren't retarded, they'd set up some metal plates or something to cover the panels in bad weather. But it's Texas.