Alberta?
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The idea that gas and oil would have saved Texas is utter bullshit.
Ill-preparedness is what caused the disaster to be worse than it needed to be.
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@doctor-phibes said in Alberta?:
Where I lived in Ontario they relied heavily on hydro-electric. They actually call it 'hydro' over there rather than 'electric'.
Remember the blackout of 1965. The whole northeast including Boston and New York went dark because someone pulled the plug from Niagara Falls.
They even made a Doris Day movie about it
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@doctor-phibes said in Alberta?:
The idea that gas and oil would have saved Texas is utter bullshit.
Ill-preparedness is what caused the disaster to be worse than it needed to be.
What's harder to winterize, a solar panel farm or a coal plant?
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@doctor-phibes said in Alberta?:
The idea that gas and oil would have saved Texas is utter bullshit.
Ill-preparedness is what caused the disaster to be worse than it needed to be.
What's harder to winterize, a solar panel farm or a coal plant?
To be honest, I have absolutely no idea, however the Canadians seem to manage to winterise their hydro plants pretty effectively.
67% of Canadian electricity is generated from renewables, according to Wiki
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@doctor-phibes said in Alberta?:
@doctor-phibes said in Alberta?:
The idea that gas and oil would have saved Texas is utter bullshit.
Ill-preparedness is what caused the disaster to be worse than it needed to be.
What's harder to winterize, a solar panel farm or a coal plant?
To be honest, I have absolutely no idea, however the Canadians seem to manage to winterise their hydro plants pretty effectively.
67% of Canadian electricity is generated from renewables, according to Wiki
I've seen the rivers in Texas. I can spit over some of them.
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The question seems to be moot, since Texas didn't winterise any of them.
Blaming this disaster on environmentalism is like blaming WW2 on vegetarianism.
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Vegetarianism? Interesting, you may just be onto something. He was also teetotal, or imbibed very little and then only with food .
I wonder.
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What's harder to winterize, a solar panel farm or a coal plant?
I failed to mention that solar is growing popularity here. It's not that it is problem to winterize the panels and associated faclities - hell, most of the panels are on the flat roofs of commerical buildings and private homes . Rather it is a problem having sufficient duration and concentration of sunlight this far north in the winter months.
Winter sunlight shouldn't be a problem for Texas.