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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (32253)	2/11/2011 7:23:57 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

If TXs' windmills mostly worked during the cold weather, I'm glad to hear it. I still don't buy the silly excuses being spread about this. The view is widespread here the utility companies were taking advantage of a rule allowing them to sell power at vastly higher rates.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (32253)	2/11/2011 2:40:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

That Global Warming sure does freeze things up: < At least two of these were large coal power plants that went offline due to pipes freezing or breaking at the plants. Some gas-fired plants also experienced outages due to the cold, and some gas-fired plants were unable to produce as scheduled due to inadequate pressure in natural gas pipelines due to high demand. > Having windmills producing 8% of the electricity is not much help. Rolling blackouts is a ridiculous way to manage the shortage. They have obviously not heard of supply and demand balanced by price - to make this novel concept clear, when there is a shortage, put the price up, when there's a surplus put the price down. By magic, nobody has to experience a rolling blackout. Mqurice