AOC's fault... lazy libruhl bitch ** -- Hoo TV 02/17/2021 12:40PM
Are you saying that green energy is more reliable? ** -- HokieDan95 02/17/2021 11:33AM
Serious was your mom related to your dad? ** -- joejoe 02/17/2021 12:14PM
Sun v. sheikh v. T Boone Pickens.........really!!!! ** -- Hooooooooooooooo 02/17/2021 11:49AM
You haven't paid attention to the surge in domestic oil production ** -- HokieDan95 02/17/2021 1:19PM
More energy in one hour from sun than earth uses annually! Why continue -- Hooooooooooooooo 02/17/2021 7:00PM
If it's practical sure. Like every source of energy -- HokieDan95 02/17/2021 7:56PM
I'd like to hear your educated opinion on this..... ** -- HoodatB 02/17/2021 11:44AM
An educated opinion from the Macho Man? Best joke I've heard all day. ** -- HowieT3 02/17/2021 12:47PM
It’d be nice if Dan Crenshaw wasn’t a fucking liar. -- WahooMatt05 02/17/2021 11:41AM
A FB friend who hails from Beaumont put it this way: -- aint2Hokie4me 02/17/2021 12:09PM
The benefit of green energy is environmental, not reliability. -- HokieDan95 02/17/2021 11:55AM
You're talking thru your hat again, Dan** -- WaxHoo 02/17/2021 12:06PM
Wind is low cost and offers supply diversity, which creates stability -- Bacon 02/17/2021 12:04PM
Well said. And once we can solve affordable storage capacity, even the shor -- 111Balz 02/17/2021 12:40PM
Storage will be a complete game changer when it is cost effective -- WahooMatt05 02/17/2021 1:46PM
DeSantis better take note. Looks like the "get Eyepatch" marching orders -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 11:52AM
Because by leading with that he implied it was the primary problem and it w -- 111Balz 02/17/2021 12:44PM
According to a piece I saw on the NewsHour this week, the problem -- hoolstoptheheels 02/17/2021 12:26PM
But it's not "fair and honest." -- DanTheFan 02/17/2021 12:14PM
Okay, here’s his lie -- WahooMatt05 02/17/2021 12:14PM
That's not a lie Matt. If wind is expected to provide 7% of the energy as a -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 12:29PM
The failure of the windmills was the same as other plants -- WahooMatt05 02/17/2021 12:40PM
Nailed it ** -- Bacon 02/17/2021 1:08PM
My bad - the 64% of capacity figure is for all thermal plants. -- hoolstoptheheels 02/17/2021 1:02PM
This article paints a slightly differently picture than the NewsHour piece -- hoolstoptheheels 02/17/2021 12:55PM
Maybe I'm missing it, but I'm not seeing where you get they still had 80% -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 1:48PM
You’re right, I misread that. Here’s the link to the NewsHour piece I saw. -- hoolstoptheheels 02/17/2021 2:06PM
I'll try to watch that later, but I'm not sure what you're saying is any -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 2:16PM
Well whatever Crenshaw is saying, according to the article I linked, along -- hoolstoptheheels 02/17/2021 3:00PM
"Well whatever Crenshaw is saying" (implying you didn't read it), you read -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 3:35PM
No, I read his comments, and I think he was highlighting wind -- hoolstoptheheels 02/17/2021 3:43PM
Come on Matt, he's pointing to that same lack of investment causing problem -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 12:50PM
Natural Gas plants are apparently the greatest failure of Texas’s power -- hoolstoptheheels 02/17/2021 1:00PM
He put wind as the number one reason -- WahooMatt05 02/17/2021 12:55PM
Gas plants didn't fail, the pipelines to get the gas to them did, for the -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 1:35PM
Are you sure about that? I thought there was some failure of components in -- southdenverhoo 02/17/2021 1:56PM
There were some components in plants that froze..... -- Zhoo 02/17/2021 3:42PM
That was not my understanding, but am certainly willing to listen if -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 2:08PM
Unless you know differently, wind has outperformed all thermal sources -- hoolstoptheheels 02/17/2021 1:49PM
The implication is that wind energy is bad and can't be trusted -- HptHokie 02/17/2021 12:37PM
He's saying that's the problem with both wind and Nat Gas pipelines. There -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 12:46PM
It’s not the fault of wind energy, it’s the fault of how those turbines wer -- 111Balz 02/17/2021 12:52PM
According to a NewsHour report I refer to above, wind energy -- hoolstoptheheels 02/17/2021 12:28PM
He misrepresented the wind issue and came to a dumb conclusion -- Bacon 02/17/2021 11:58AM
The Dans and Hoodas of the world don't care to understand -- HptHokie 02/17/2021 12:20PM
How so? I'm honestly asking since you say you're in the energy industry -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 12:18PM
I'll highlight 4 issues -- Bacon 02/17/2021 12:55PM
Thanks. I clearly don't see him painting wind as the boogeyman that others -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 1:27PM
Wind is already cheaper than gas, you need better sources of info -- Bacon 02/17/2021 1:38PM
Let me guess, you're in the wind segment of the energy industry? :-) I kid, -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 2:01PM
You’re asking why the state of Texas has not converted more power generatio -- 111Balz 02/17/2021 3:16PM
Private investors ARE banging down the doors to put up windmills! -- Bacon 02/17/2021 2:15PM
7% came from Hool's article as for ERCOT's expected winter capacity from -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 2:30PM
Sounds good, enjoyed the discussion -- Bacon 02/17/2021 2:36PM
Yeah, when I think solar, I'm thinking about the massive fields of solar -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 2:50PM
Well said ** -- 111Balz 02/17/2021 1:54PM
Yep - that's the point - real deep thinker here guys and gals ** -- HptHokie 02/17/2021 11:36AM
Yep - that's the point - real deep thinker here guys and gals ** -- HptHokie 02/17/2021 11:36AM
LOL wow ** -- HokieDan95 02/17/2021 11:37AM
Time to tack energy onto the ever-growing list of shit you don't understand ** -- HptHokie 02/17/2021 12:18PM
Basic concepts are too hard for you, don't try to debate energy Dan -- Bacon 02/17/2021 11:43AM
Then there is this guy -- 79 Wahoo 02/17/2021 11:17AM
That's pretty ingenious, putting a propeller on top of a truck like that -- Hoo TV 02/17/2021 12:49PM
supplying power and water = socialism ???? -- FfxStationHokie 02/17/2021 11:24AM
Any idea outside of the cult = socialism ** -- HoodatB 02/17/2021 11:44AM
Governing is much harder than demagoguing. -- Chuck Taylor 02/17/2021 11:42AM
Hoodafan ** -- HptHokie 02/17/2021 11:34AM
Have we added another HDS sufferer? Did you have a link for me suggesting -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 11:42AM
We live in a time where trolling now passes for leadership - -- Eusebia 02/17/2021 10:57AM
^^ this, sadly ** -- FfxStationHokie 02/17/2021 11:09AM
If successful politicians are like Teflon-- -- Shenhoo 02/17/2021 10:45AM
?? ** -- HokieDan95 02/17/2021 10:41AM
And there’s this... -- SixerHoo 02/17/2021 10:36AM
They just need to secede so they can live under Abbott/Cruz/Cornyn -- 79 Wahoo 02/17/2021 10:42AM
And then Austin would secede from TX and could be like West Berlin - an -- 81_Hokie 02/17/2021 10:50AM
They’ll be saved by the Austin Airlift, but with Amazon drones this time. ** -- SixerHoo 02/17/2021 11:07AM
Failed state. ** -- Shenhoo 02/17/2021 10:45AM
LOL! Yes, because TX is struggling so bigly these days. ** -- Hoodafan 02/17/2021 11:10AM
Yes, the democrat run cities here are absolutely booming -- Bacon 02/17/2021 11:47AM