Hurricanes are just a coastal problem, and most years there are either none or only weak ones--I speak as one who grew up not far from the Texas coast. I would guess that most of Texas' wind turbines are probably on the plains in West Texas, where most of the wind is, and were GW Bush (the political father of the Texas wind industry) lived. I'm not a fan of wind power by the way, but for other reasons.
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Hurricanes are just a coastal problem, and most years there are either none or only weak ones--I speak as one who grew up not far from the Texas coast. I would guess that most of Texas' wind turbines are probably on the plains in West Texas, where most of the wind is, and were GW Bush (the political father of the Texas wind industry) lived. I'm not a fan of wind power by the way, but for other reasons.
All of them, I hope. It is waste to put CO2 anywhere but in the air. For a maximally green world, we would have CO2 concentration of at least 1300 ppmv. Unfortunately, there is not nearly a large enough URR of fossil fuels to get there, but let's get as close as we can. Astronomers say earth would also be a much more suitable place for life if its temperature were 5C warmer than today (and for about half the history of life on earth it was 8.5C warmer). Unfortunately, CO2 is not much help there. CO2 does not drive global temperatures. In fact, at current levels, it has more or less completely saturated the wavelength of light that can contribute to the earth's retained heat, so additional CO2 is pretty much useless on that score. And we also have enough data now to show that there is no correlation between CO2 levels and the earth's ability to retain water vapor, which is the most important greenhouse gas because of its quantity. Currently, earth's CO2 level is only marginally higher than its all time low in the history of life.
So more CO2, please!
More education would be nice, but schools can cram only so much knowledge into kids' heads, and the talent of the students is all important for that. When looking at measures that are not distorted by the Flynn Effect, real intelligence fell the equivalent of 13 IQ points in the 13 decades between 1870 and 2000, and now that the Flynn Effect has faded away in many developed countries among people born after about 1976, scores on standard IQ tests are also declining at a rate of slightly over a point per decade. That has a lot to do with our undereducated people--which, BTW, is not a uniquely American phenomenon. After controlling for racial composition, our schools are as good as any in Europe based on scores from international PISA tests.
Gee, is there no place I can't get away from the CCP's low budget propagandists? Anyway, China has plenty of problems (and one big problem--the CCP), and that will become obvious for all to see eventually. But I will congratulate the CCP on getting its bought and paid for boy Biden installed as president of the US.
I run a business in the electricity generation business, so you could say I know a little something about how the grid works, but I have to wonder about you. What are your thoughts on ERCOT versus the other ISOs and ERCOTs use of a capacity reserve margin rather than a capacity market? You are familiar with ERCOT and and ISO and RTOs in general, right? And you understand the various capacity markets and alternate resource sufficiency measures? Because that's just the very basics you need in order to have an intelligent conversation about this where you don't make yourself look the fool because you clearly don't even know that you don't know what you're talking about.
If you'd like to have an intelligent discussion on this subject, there are folks here glad to partake. If you just want to throw out your own technically illiterate thoughts on something you don't understand, well as they say it is better to be thought a fool and remain silent than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Except engineers aren't idiots and design around these faults of intermittence by either adding storage capacity (batteries, flywheels, etc) or use intermittent sources as a compliment to primary sources (gas, nuclear, etc..). After all, we've known the sun sets and the wind stops blowing since the dawn of time.