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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
wdmso said texas has the most. so every other state is doing worse. but they only state he calls out, is the state that buses wind the most, because it’s texas.
makes all kinds of sense.
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he thinks a state that had no windmills and then adds a windmill therefore increasing it's wind production by 100% is better than one whose % increase is much lower because they have so many existing windmills...particularly if it's Texas or Florida because he hates Texas and Florida.....he's an idiot
June 7, 2022
HOUSTON — Texas leads the nation in wind power generation. It makes up about 20% of the state's energy usage.
Daniel Cohan, an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University, said that's because of a major push made several years ago toward identifying competitive, renewable energy zones.
"The state got all sides together and made a plan with about $7 billion of investments in transmission lines, more than any other state was going at the time," Cohan said. "So the wind boom we've had was made possible by that foresight and innovative program."
So, how are the wind and solar farms helping to keep the lights on in Texas?
"If it hadn't been for the tremendous growth we've had, especially in solar the past few years, we would have already been experiencing rolling blackouts even with that heat wave we got in May and really can't imagine how the grid would handle this week's heat wave," Cohan said.
CNBC CLIMATE
Texas led the country in new renewable energy projects last year
PUBLISHED FRI, FEB 18 2022
July 15 2022 LA TIMES California landfills are filling up with toxic solar panels
https://www.latimes.com/business/sto...cycling-danger