Power outages in Texas have caused widespread chaos. Supermarkets have low food supplies. Water has to be boiled before drinking. The situation is desperate.
I agree it is very serious. It is a wakeup call to those who think that the reliability of the electricity supply is not very important. I see too that some commentators are attempting to blame the 15% shortfall in supply (possibly a lot more, the numbers are various in sources) is due to conventional plant freezing up. This is extremely unlikely, conventional plants have heat everywhere. There are lots of pictures of wind turbines fully iced up, and solar panels covered with snow, perhaps someone is trying to falsely report the situation? I would love to question Boris about how he is going to avoid the same problem here, I suspect a great deal of hand waving!
I agree it is very serious. It is a wakeup call to those who think that the reliability of the electricity supply is not very important. I see too that some commentators are attempting to blame the 15% shortfall in supply (possibly a lot more, the numbers are various in sources) is due to conventional plant freezing up. This is extremely unlikely, conventional plants have heat everywhere. There are lots of pictures of wind turbines fully iced up, and solar panels covered with snow, perhaps someone is trying to falsely report the situation? I would love to question Boris about how he is going to avoid the same problem here, I suspect a great deal of hand waving!
