The Insane Lies About The Texas Blackouts
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Me: Noone should take Tucker seriously!
Tucker in court: Noone should take me seriously.
Fox viewers: He says it like it is.
Gotta love a system that will pave enough parking for Black Friday, accepting that it will be unused the rest of the year; but won't plan for emergency conditions where lives are at stake.
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It's not that they won't plan for it, as the video mentions, it costs money to do so. It's simple: if people continue to vote GOP leadership into the country, I guess they don't mind frozen pipes!
Our biggest issue, as citizens, is trusting the media and government. No matter what your politics are, your government hates you.
@@sgtpepper6379 it's simple, don't just believe the first thing you see and wait to form an opinion until you've heard about it from several points of view and see which is the most reasonable... A bunch of old rich white guys trying to keep power and make profits as much as they can and not caring if a few of us regular people happen to die while they do it.
It's been done in history so many times, now it's super easy to spot with access to so much information... They've been doing shit like this for hundreds of year... Just read the history.
to everyone here: NO
Let's be clear on this issue: Texas power companies don't do enough to winterize the grid for the ocassional once a decade freeze, because of the cost...that cost would be passed on to customers in higher bills, for something that happens once a decade. You think people are upset over this? Just wait until the companies are forced to spend the money--and let's agree right now, as winter approaches, that it's the right thing to do--as soon as people see their electric bills increase, it'll be like none of this ever happened.
customers will be like:
"We're being gouged!"
"Winterize? This is Texas not Montana!"
"OMG poor people will die because they can't afford electricity!"
Now, full disclosure: I live in Texas, and although my pipes didn't survive the freeze, I was lucky enough not have lost power at any time during that winter storm. The loss of life was bad enough to hear about, but then there were the people that signed up for cheap electricity, getting those huge bills...gotta read the fine print, which I don't, so I was worried. Luckily my electricity provider didn't bend its customers over...I think someone said it's because it's a co-op or something--I really don't know. Here's my plan going forward: Buy a generator and fuel storage, then solar with battery back-up, and maybe someday a few wind turbines. And although that's no small investment, it's better than higher bills while still being at the mercy of the grid.
They expect people to buy insurance, but they don't expect companies to prepare for disasters
Climate-Town did great, as usual, but HOW F-ED the Utility's and Grid's all are thx to Capitalism needs more in-depth Explanation, so may i recommend the UA-camr Some More News?
@@loturzelrestaurant I already watch that channel
@@Gwestytears Well, it was worthy a Try! I love Recommending Stuff.
@@loturzelrestaurant Take it as me being dumb and also wanting to watch said channel.
@@rockfire1669 ??
As a life long Texan who is preparing for another large winter storm again. I’m beyond frustrated. Thank you for this video. You’ve earned your sub.
I forgot how much happened in early 2021 until re-watching it. I remember emailing my professor about my incomplete "I'm sorry to drag my time spent working into spring semester, but my original plan after dealing with holiday stress imposed by other household members was to take January to work on my assignments. I wasn't expecting a coup attempt that would sap my focus. I just kept getting sucked into political news and the days just faded away." 2019 me could never imagine having to send anything like that. But after experiencing the one after the other news and crises of 2020, sending that email a few weeks in didn't feel that strange.
I know how 2020 felt like a million years long, but that phenomenon hasn't completely gone away yet. So many of our problems, like climate change, are dynamic ones and it's hard to get used to them. Though I suppose getting used to it is a bad sign, it might mean we've grown numb.
As another life-long Texas, how was this recent large snowstorm? Like 1" of sleet? Almost as if that last large storm was a complete freak occurence
@@garlottos hahaha it wasn’t too bad, no loss of power. Hbu?
@@magnificentfoxface5982 None at all, but I didn't lose power the other time either
@@magnificentfoxface5982 Climate-Town did great, as usual, but HOW F-ED the Utility's and Grid's all are thx to Capitalism needs more in-depth Explanation, so may i recommend the UA-camr Some More News?
The sheer number of bingbongs in the US news scene is wild. Great video.
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Of all the terms I've ever heard, I think 'bingbong' encapsulates climate denialism the best.
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You misspelled Fascists
They're called wind turbines, not windmills. Windmills are the ones that grind (mill) grain.
The ones that pump water are also called windmills.
You can tell it's a lie because Tucker's mouth is moving.
Actually if you look up the definition of a wind mill your wrong .. yes they are used to mill grain also used for pumps and other machines but if you look it up you will clearly see that a wind mill is a wind turbine and vise versa any use of wind to convert to power is a wind mill ...
They mill the wheat into flour, the flour is burned for energy
Wow, I'm still learning. I really thought it was called Windmills, thank you
I mean, you don't need to look at what all the Texan experts said to know its a lie. All you have to do is note the fact that Tucker Carlson said it.
Always a good time to give a friendly reminder that, according to US law, no sane, rational person could ever interpret anything Tucker Carlson says as truthful, factual, or meaningful. That's a thing he claimed in court. And the court agreed.
Entertaining and factually correct evisceration of Tucker Carlson's and Gov. Abbot's BS on the Texas blackouts. Bravo! There'd be a better USA if main stream media were like this.
As a Texan, this was stupid, awful, preventable and you really hit it with this video. 🙄you even taught me some stuff that makes me even madder! Thanks!
Lets be honest, welcome to texas...
Not much consolation, but - politicians elsewhere are utterly incompetent and corrupt too. I'm just lucky that where I live they've not killed so many people with their corruption and incompetence - yet. :(
I get so angry at how people can demonstrably fail and lie repeatedly and just brush it all off as someone else's issue. :(
It was nice being in east Texas because we aren't on the Texas grid, national grid is just... better
Get solar panels! The amount of power generated in the day is enough to run several space heaters all night. You also won't be paying any electric bills for about half of the year! The other half will cost almost nothing.
I enjoy this guys videos but he offered zero explanation to the Texas freeze. He just shit on Fox News for almost 10 minutes. Even the reports he listed just mention “freeze-offs” over and over, but didn’t get to the actual cause. Field or raw gas will condense pentanes which are similar to gasoline. The go in to 300-400 barrel tanks when they fill up and cannot be removed because the roads are iced up they have to shut in those stations which shuts off the gas supply to cryogenic plants. Those cryogenic plants strip propane and ethane and other liquids from the gas and eventually discharge mostly pure methane to the grid which eventually makes it to a electric generator or a home. This is just one dynamic of natural gas. There are also hydrate formations in non dehydrated gas pipelines which is far more complex but still just as impactful.
The company that made the wind turbines NEEDS TO SUE TO HELL Fox Entertainment, just like Dominion and Smartmatic did, it's the ONLY way that they'll stop
This is a great idea.
True. This people only understand lawsuit language.
damn lawsuit windmills after my money
-tucker
Fox 'news' is entertainment not news
Genius 👍👍👍👍
I always find it astonishing how Tucker Carlson manages to find every single bit of misinformation out there. You could probably go "the opposite of what he said" and never be wrong.
Being a conservative, I believed that the windmills froze. So, thank you for explaining what really happened. I can't believe that I'm saying this. Keep opening my mind and my eyes. Love the 2011 news clips about blackouts. 1984 too.
The wind farms were compromised. But the lack of winterization for all power sources and infrastructure in Texas led to blackouts and rolling blackouts. North Texas does get bad winter weather. But southern Texas wasn't prepared.
That's the problem with the mainstream news. They lie just to get more views and profit whether it be left news or right news does not matter.
Nice to see a conservative here. People nowdays just watch content they know they are gonna agree with.
This is america. Land of the free. We don't have to agree on the same things to be brothers and sisters. I like reading into things that challenge my view on the world. It's the best way to learn something new. I wouldn't say I'm a conservative though closer to center. Independent.
@@BrianStewart126 In a fair number of cases, they actually DIDN'T freeze, making even this assertion suspect.
Moreover, most of the power plants didn't simply trip offline because of some sudden spike from literally all the wind just mysteriously going offline. The plants had exposed components that, surprise, froze! And worse, these were valves and components that had previously been identified as being at risk from extreme cold.
The two main contributors were the Texas power industry's patent refusal to prepare for icing scenarios and anticipate demand, which is allowed by second cause, the deregulation laws in Texas specifically engineered to allow them to avoid any responsibility for that refusal. There isn't even any certainty yet if they can be held civilly liable for the deaths these knowing and intentional actions caused.
What's more, the cost of winterization for the various facilities isn't actually that much. It's just money that could be lining pockets, so it's better not spent in the hopes that by the time it becomes a problem, you have retired or moved to another company where your decisions aren't your personal liability anymore!
Coming from Sweden and having traveled around and lived shortly in the US, one thing that struck me was the extremely poorly designed infrastructure, including thermal insulation in their houses. Truly a short term for-profit market...
Im curious about the thermal insulation differences, as someone in a northern state, can you explain or give me an idea of what to search to see the differences?
@@skie6282 For example double layered windows do shit ton of work keeping the cold out and the heat in. But it's more expensive to put double the amount of glass and it looks the same to unknowing customer, so why bother.
@@Omit1tulliportin oh! I actually had that in a house growing up, and being a child i broke a window, in the winter, and the temporary replacement was single pane and it was alot colder in the room because of that. thats when i learned about the double pane windows! So yes i see how big of a difference that makes but i totally forgot about it until now lol
Mine is just fine in NY
Texas is even worse than most of the rest of the US, they have a government run by libertarians that don't care about building quality, and most builders will usually build the lowest quality house they can without it being illegal to do so.
The biggest problem is a total lack of knowledge on how wind turbines actually work. Wind turbines cannot act as "stand alone" generators. They are grid tied, much like the inverters that connect photovoltaic panels to the grid. They need the 60 Hz line to synchronize to. As long as a turbine is running, it produces its own natural heat. The cold weather doesn't bother them. But, if the grid fails, the turbines have no choice but to shut down. The National Electrical Code (NEC) REQUIRES that renewable sources cut off, for "island safety". They don't want these sources back-feeding downed power lines, for the sake of safety! If a turbine is curtailed for any longer than a few hours, that's when they get too cold to re-start. The grid fails the turbines, then the turbines fail the grid.
With wind being ~8-10% of total power production, the grid is already so unstable, that you can't blame the problems on that alone. There are other fundamental problems with the grid. I read an article,(can't remember the source) that suggested that the natural gas wells were asked to shut down, to save electricity. That unwittingly cut off gas to the generating stations. The natural gas power plants literally shut down their own fuel pumps, and "ran out of gas"! By the time the problem was recognized, it was too late. Those power plants froze, and they couldn't do an immediate re-start. It wasn't as much the equipment or the cold, it was panic fueled mismanagement.
That is some interesting detail. If you find that article again, please share. Not that it would help any skeptics out there, because it gets into technical details that are impervious to sound bites, but learning more is everyone's responsibility.
The NEC "anti-islanding" code is archaic and draconian (to put things politely). Not that I am advocating against safety, however considering the really advanced state of technology we have able to control generation assets, it seems a bit crazy that our interconnection policies are created around an assumption that grid (and the assets connected to it) isn't any more technologically advanced than what it was in the early 1900's. You have to question where the thinking must of been to create legislation that literally requires every advanced generation asset to simply disconnect and cease exporting energy if it ever senses that the grid is currently stressed? We have legislation that dictates that the only grid assets that are allowed to help stabilize the grid under adverse stressed conditions are the traditional thermally driven rotating generators that have time responses in the tens of seconds to minutes. Add to this equation the changing mix of energy generation sources with more renewable sources coming on-stream and displacing the need for operating traditional thermally driven rotating generators and it is not hard to understand that this situation is effectively the result of the archaic state of our legislative policies. Technology currently exists that could be used to create a considerably more resilient grid, however the legislation to allow this technology to be used simply does not exist.
thankfully we have battery backup and self consumption models that dont require grid presence for feed-in assets to remain on. Smart grids allow windmills to remain on to keep warm and the power can feed to micro stations to warm other local mills that may not have gusts to rotate.
wrong. lot of pictures of wind turbinens being deiced on you tube
@@dknowles60 and unless those videos provide context from a reliable source on why they are being deiced they can neither confirm nor deny the OPs claim.
I was in Oklahoma in 1983 when between Thanksgiving and into the new year a cold spell caused more than 400 water main breaks across the city of Lawton, Ok, the state of Oklahoma ran out money for the highway patrol. It was a mess. In 1989 I was in san Antonio, Tx for that wonderful cold spell too. Yes both times I was there for the US Army and being a Minnesota boy I just love how those two heavily Republican states have all the best excuses for ignoring the needs of the people for their love of the big corporation.
@@jasenvernor1942 Maybe because they weren't talking about California, in the video. Their infrastructure definitely needs work, but it sounds like an excuse when posted here.
The most hilarious thing is that Abbott went on a local Texas news station directly before his Fox appearance and said the complete opposite aka the truth of why the blackout happened. Then he gets on Fox and says “windmills” 😂
Abbott- the second mentally deficient oil baby in politics, hint: the other one made it to the White House.
And the dumb audience at Fox News still eat it up
Ahh America. Where profits are more important than people's lives, and people are at each others throats arguing about it because a depressing amount of people like it that way.
People in power like it that way. Because they make money off that status quo. Tons of people don't like it. But they don't have power so whatever they like or dislike matters exactly not at all.
As an european, america sounds like literally hell.
@@rod5943 Naw. Hell wouldn't be this cold
Better than having democrats in power turning our cities into shit and heroin infested hellholes like los angeles.
Vote Republican, always.
@@saintnash1 vote anything but Democrat, A L W A Y S
Unless it's Tulsi Gabbard, she's alright.
Have we, as a country, considered utilizing the abundant, pure, and sustainable energy given off by Rollie's continuously advancing 80s moustache? 🤔
We don't have to technology to harness that immense power
If we can rig some kind of turbine to the ends of my moustache, we may be able to get a research grant.
(superbad:) "who wants a moustache ride?"
I'm all for renewable energy, as long as the Government doesn't pay for it.
@@davidlafleche1142 you mean like the government pays for (subsidizes) the fossil fuel industry?
I'm always mystified when society stops functioning in some places because "temperatures were in the single digits." To me that means, "to warm to bother going skiing because the mountain will be too crowded," and, "eh, still warm enough to snow because it's not so cold that broad daylight isn't sufficient to sublimate exposed layers of frost."
I've lived in the Dallas area my entire life, Texas does not get into the single digits. I think that's happened maybe one other time in my life.
Single digits are still quite comfortable, to the point that for short trips you really don't even need to put on warm clothes.
The fact that Texas didn't winterize is really just gross criminal negligence, that storm is a Tuesday to most of the nation and the natural gas infrastructure across the Northeast amd Midwest had basically no issues dealing with the worst part of the SAME STORM. The only excuse for failing infrastructure in an ice storm is the weight of the ice accumulation overwhelming the structures ability to stay standing.
@@jasonreed7522if you have the right clothes
@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat Ah, such a relevant comment. Way to miss the whole point...whoooosh...
You need a medal for this video.
Did not know you watched this channel. Love your stuff 💜
This guy rocks
When I first heard his news cast, i laughed because fox has been so anti environmental conservation for as long as I was a kid, that suddenly Tucker showing concern about "chopped up birds" was hilarious. What about the California fires? What about big development and deforestation. Hush up Tucker.
If you cut down all the trees, then there can't be any forest fires. Pro strats.
Maybe if blue states managed their old growth forests better they wouldn’t have so many fires. But you all got such draconian green laws you can’t even look at a tree without getting prison for ten years. Stupid. But then again, liberals and fantasy land.
@@alienlife7754 Individual states are not wholly responsible for managing National Forests. That word "National" means the Federal government is mostly responsible for managing those lands.
Where's the US government's management?
@@mimimurphy3244 the forest fires in california were started in national forests?
@@michaelangeloevans2722 They raged through unkempt National Forests.
Where was the federal government's management plan?
Folks he's at it again!!! Don't know how you pulled this together so fast, but I loved it.
Thanks Kurtis! The trick is to be actively taking a class in energy regulatory policy and electricity systems, then have a timely news story that stays in the news for over a week.
I mean, at this point you just need to prepare the essays and wait for the problems predicted up to 50 years ago to actually play out.
@@ClimateTown stuff like this is why I love UA-cam.
yeah he pulled a fast one alright
i feel like the windmill thing tucker Carlson said about them freezing up because they were bought from china is like some super weird precursor for them opening up the idea to others considering trying to embargo China as a good idea, yet again fox news is to be taken seriously, but at the same time their strictly to be for entertainment purposes
I’d love to see an update to this video, seeing as those same experts are now saying Texas has done absolutely nothing to prevent this problem from happening again this winter.
And if/when it does happen, I’m sure the bingbongs will be blaming it on green energy once again.
Texas has identified the worst part of the problem, but has provided very few carrots and sticks to solve it. And it's the kind of problem Texans are good at solving. Biggest issue was frost forming in gas pipeline pressure regulators near power plant.
Doesn't matter if anyone blames green energy. The investors and stakeholders of Texas love green energy. Texas beat California on green energy startups in 2020 and Abbott listens to money. Abbott will never talk smack about wind and solar ever again.
It was only a once in a 50 year event. So they figure they don't have to do anything for the next 49.
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Maybe the infrastructure is designed to handle up to 1 in 50 year cold. But it seems like management isn't. ;)
@@Robbedem a lot in the usa seems to be unable to handle once in 50 year events lol.
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 is it though? The last one happened in 2011. Seems more like one in 10 or 11 years.
It's funny, I was at a meeting about wholesale electricity market administration and whether and how to update ISO-NE's market practices. Someone from ERCOT got up and talked about how great they do without a capacity market or anything that resembles reliability requirements. This was a month before the blackouts.
If you had known about the 2011 crisis you would have been able to call them out on their bullshit
I love that you don't let reporting in a snowstorms get in the way of sporting an open-necked shirt.
Funny how the windmills in much colder climates operate without incident.
I live in Finland. It’s quite cold here during winters. We also have windmills, capable of generating energy during all temperatures (within reason). And other energy resources too.
I don’t know for sure, but it might have something to do with expecting it to be cold one day. Again.
We also have the energy grid connected with coutries next to us. You know, in case we run out. It has happened before.
But what comes to Texas, I have no idea how to prevent this from happening again. Exept getting rid of wind power.
@@Moses_VII it's the associated infrastructure around the nuke plants that failed not the nuke plant itself meaning the power it did produce doesn't actually go where it needed to be.
Windmills here in Northern and Western Michigan. They work just fine in the bitter cold
@@Moses_VII Nuclear plants always produce power. They cannot stop. The only time they're down is for scheduled maintenance or if it melts down. Lol
@Heloise O'Byrne They do deice themselves. They also have a crew that's suppose to be on call to run out and manually deice if they seize and can't recover.
3:54 love how the “wind output” went *up* from extreme to actual conditions
Yep. The wind turbines outperformed, while natural gas was falling on its face.
I think I remember reading that wind power actually outperformed fossil fuels during this event, it had fewer failures.
from what I understood the only reason they failed was because the grid failed underneath them and they were forced to shut down for safety reasons, in essence there would have been no quantifiable failures of wind if the rest of the grid continued to function.
@@SherrifOfNottingham According to someone else, they naturally generate waste heat, so cold is fine. The issue is if the grid stops working, then the turbine can't sync up to the rest of the grids frequency, so it gets fucky and they have to shut it down
Just like every other problem in America, it could be solved, but it wouldn't be profitable
Oh no it would be, just not as profitable as it is to not :/
Ugh if this channel didn't exist I might explode from the pent up anger from the systemic misinformation campaign that's killing the planet.
Thank you, you are greatly appreciated!
It's scary how many people are determined to "hide" climate change and overall global problems, we can't even fix it anymore and they still think someone wants to take something away from them by trying to fix the enviroment.
It's not like wind turbines will save the planet, outages would just be a regular occurrence if we were entirely dependent on them.
@@PistonAvatarGuy damn you really didn't watch the video huh?
Wind turbines work just fine for me at -45°F in rural Montana.
@@oldankh I'm talking about outages that occur when the wind stops blowing.
@@PistonAvatarGuy okay and your point being?
The first day Governor Abbott was on the local Dallas Fox news station and said that the issue was with Gas fired generators.
Two hours later he was on Sean Hannity and said it was wind power generation.
The Green New Deal was not even a law at the time.
Another issue is that in times of extreme demand.
ERCOT pays large users to go offline and utilize their backup systems.
One group of large users were the plants that supply the natural gas to the gas fired power plants.
The NG suppliers were paid to go offlgrid and their back up power systems failed. Resulting in no fuel to the Gas fired generators.
Now here a couple of other things.
As of 2022 Texas has the most installed wind generation capacity in the United States.
Except that installed capacity does not mean squat when the turbines have to be shuttered in the PanHandle because there is not enough installed infrastructure to carry the load.
This happened in the summer of 2022. They had to turn off the wind generators because they were producing too much power.The transmission lines could not handle it.
By contract and if supply chain problems do not cause problems.
Texas is on track to be number 2 for installed grid scale solar capacity..
Grid storage systems are being built all over the state in sharo contrast to the rhetoric being used by our elected and non elected officials.
I love how these are suposed to be professional politicians, journalists and news reporters...yet they have no idea what a wind turbine is and seem to think it's a mill...??
Thats on purpose. They just love to be irritating.
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fkn tell people that if they start growing their own food they will actually be helping...please.
this sci-fi crap is so annoying.
Personally, I get very angry when somebody lies to me. I can't understand why Tucker Carlson's viewers don't seem to mind.
just about everybody in the media lies. left and right.
i can't understand why you seem to single out tucker as if he's the only one
@@dutchdykefinger can you provide evidence of similar magnitude left wing lies?
I mean, they all have one brain cell per viewer, so it's not like they understand that they're being lied to.
@@TheSmiddy Russia gate, I cant remember his name but the kid that was accused of assaulting a native American when he actually was the one being assaulted (leftist media even lost that one in court), Jan 6th, Joe Rogan taking horse dewormer, trashing the covid vaccine when Trump was president and saying they'll never take it then doing a complete 180 once biden became president even tho it's the same vaccine. There's way more but you get the point.
MSM lies, they'd do anything for views.
Edit: By MSM I mean both left and right wing media
@@TheSmiddy - in UK a couple of years ago a leftwing Labour Party-supporting Twitter account put up a photo of the house of commons chamber that showed about 5 MP's in attendance on the conservative side of the house but lots on the labour benches. The caption was "this is how much the Tories care about this issue" (can't remember the particular issue), then someone else showed the actual photo of the debate which showed the place rammed to the rafters on both sides. The leftwing account had blatantly lied. Everyone was incensed by the deception and the people behind the account just couldn't understand people's anger with them, they thought they were helping the leftwing cause. I'm a dyed in the wool leftie and I wanted to strangle them. Some Labourites didn't see a problem with it!!! Most people don't want propaganda, they want facts. But it shows how there are lying ****holes in all political movements and philosophies.
Having lived through that freeze here in Houston - which, indeed, was difficult and miserable - I never heard anyone blaming windmills. The constant message we heard was (still is) that the entire infrastructure (which includes wind turbines) wasn't able to handle the demand for electricity. Everyone knows the wind turbines out in west Texas are just a small percentage of electricity. I mean, helloooo, we live in the energy industrial capital of America... oil, gas... we know how fuel works. It is not a lie to say the turbines (along with everything else) were approaching a catastrophic fail point and had to be cut off.
Well it is not a lie, sure, but focusing on ONLY the wind turbines and not any of the other failures as the people over at Fox News decided to do seems, at the very least, a bit ingenuous, no?
Uhhhh, North Dakotan here. Our power grids don’t fail when our wind mills freeze despite getting 70% of our electricity from wind.
Me: the Texas situation is pretty bad.
Climate Town: no it's not.
Me: it's not?
Climate Town: no, it's EXTREMELY BAD. ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE.
Me: oh.
Yes, even the windmills freezing in Texas shows how the state does everything on the cheap. And, of course, the federal taxpayer has to bail Texas again.
@@chrissi.enbyYT It's what Jesus wants . . .
At least TX seems to be growing more and more blue. With time, they might get a Democratic state government that takes things more seriously.
@@safe-keeper1042 One can hope
I vote No and recommend everyone move.
@@chrissi.enbyYT The energy companies are also profiting massively right now due to the blackouts and increased energy prices. People are paying them to plan "poorly".
6:16 Oh no, Texans forgot! It's almost as if they have the memories of goldfish...
I currently live in Texas but I was born and raised in Minnesota. When this happened (and just any time it gets “too cold”), it was INSANE!! I’ve never seen anything like that!! Like, I KNOW that this is an avoidable crisis but WOW
Dude I love your channel
Thank you so much for not being one of those "it's your family's fault for not recycling old shoeboxes" and actually going after the companies that emit tons of CO2.
That is a great quote, thanks.
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I worked for a Spanish electric company shortly after they started buying into the US market. The Spaniards were completely freaked out by the state of US infrastructure: lack of backups, lack of maintenance, lack of detection systems... the Spaniards wanted to invest into upgradind "everything! The whole network is from out of the '40s!"; the Americans said they were nuts.
Apparently part of the reason US energy prices are comparatively low is that US energy-transportation systems are crap.
... makes me think of those other videos about the problems with the cost of maintaining US roads and with zoning rules which kind'a lower the value of the land...
On the other hand, one of the items which gets taken into account when designing windfarms (what? I've worked for several windfarm companies, too! And both of my brothers work for windfarm companies, all three of us in different jobs so we saw different parts of it) is the weather. The kind of lubricants used where you expect very hot temperatures, very cold ones, both of the above, or nothing particularly extreme, are different; it would make as much sense to use extreme-cold lubes in Texas as it would to wear your warmest clothes to Spring Break in Cancún.
As an European i see this and have questions, many questions. One of those are "these american try to teach the world what democracy is?!".
Watching this is like a dystopian movie, can´t be real.
The US doesnt make a good figure. What happend to the US? The whole world is laughing at them. There was times the US was respected and admired, but this is long time ago gone.
Most underrated channel I know
When the freeze happened, south Texas hardly froze and the wind turbines still operated. Local folks connected to it hardly lost power. Wasn't connected to Magic Valley, but my neighborhood's power grid had been recently revamped due to new construction.
Just watching this now in 2023 and really enjoyed it. The ironic thing is that Texas is by far the largest producer of wind power as of Aug. 2023 producing over 25% of US wind power. So, although their politicians speak against wind power, investors are doing the opposite. This is because of four thing: the conditions are great in parts of Texas for wind power; the amount of available land in those great locations is large; Texas itself controls a lot of that land and chooses not to regulate it much; and finally, Texas tax law encourages wind (and solar) power. It really illustrates that politicians say one thing, but do the opposite - sometimes for good, even if their motive is profit rather than for the good of their citizens.
As someone who was trapped inside a freezing house for several days without any electricity, this was one of the most miserable weeks of my life. Our solar panels were useless, as we were not allowed to use the energy *we were generating* from them, and spent most of the day in pitch darkness huddling under every scrap of clothing we owned trying to keep warm. The worst part is, that we had no warning that it would get this bad. My family was fortunate enough to have had bottled water on hand or we were going to start drinking melted snow and risk getting horribly sick. People not as fortunate as us probably risked dehydration as well as hunger, if they had no supplies on hand. All I know is that I'm going to buy a small generator, heater, and water filter in case of future emergencies.
what! you can not use the energy from your solar panels!!!
@@CocoShade Because their system was a "grid tie" setup. No on site energy storage (i think they call them batteries), i've never understood the logic* of such a system. When i used to consult on solar power sytems for home i always insisted "get batteries!"
* it's power co bs that's why.
You should have had storage batteries solar cost a lot of money and if i ever spent a lot of money i will have back up Batteries
Hey, actually, there's even more to it: the electric grid operators cut off electricity to the gas pipeline turbines that push gas to the gas-fired electric power plants! How'd they do this? Well, those turbines are supposed to be on a critical-do-no-shut-off list .. except that list was a decade out of date! ERCOT has 3000 employees, and they didn't devote even one to making sure the list is current. This came out in Texas State Legislature testimony, it was covered in local papers; I think Houston Chronicle (?) ran a series of articles on this.
This is sheer Soviet-style incompetence. Soviets fell because incompetent appartchiks were installed to run things. This is exactly what the GOP does: toeing the party line is more important than ability and duty. We've got to claw these liars, these nincompoops out of office.
Doesn't surprise me. When people stay in power to long, stuff like this happens. Doesn't matter if they are democrats or republicans.
if Obama had not closed Down badly needed Coal power plants Tx would have been ok
@@dknowles60 Screw coal. Electricity is the future, the faster we kill coal, the better. Anyway, Obama's got nothing to do with it. Don't turn a battle over what's important into a battle over b.s. politics and name calling. I mean, Trump wasn't no hero, either.
@@LinasVepstas your ideas are Dumb and dont work. coal has over a 120 years history of working great the Same thing can not be said about your ideas. the fault is on Obama , Obama force then Coal power plants to closed Down. how young are you. Opps you were in Diapers when Obama said this. You can build coal power Plants but i will Bankrupt You If you build a coal Power Plants. the Problem is you young people and Obama was one of then are not the great leaders Like JFK who said I mess Up. The bay of Pigs was my Mess. You can not fix problems untill the People who made the Mess man Up
@@dknowles60 Coal is dying because its just too expensive to operate. Even if you could get the plant *for free*, it would still be too expensive to operate.
20-30 years ago, you had these Texas yahoos, cowboys, oil & gas wildcatters, get-rich-quick and retire-before-I'm-35 types, running around trying to find little old ladies and buy drilling rights from them. That was then. Today, it's the same yahoos, the same wildcatters, but now they're looking for little old ladies next to electric power transmission lines, so they can install batteries and solar. Get rich quick on electricity arbitrage.
You can't blame Obama for that. Cowboys gonna be cowboys. Gotta love em, no matter how crude they are. And the Soviet-style appartchiks, well, now we call them "Trump voters". Trump loves Putin because he knows that mindset: the people who vote for him think and act exactly how the Soviet Communists did, back in the day. Screwin over the neighbor every chance they get. Hated them then, hate them now.
Seriously the best UA-cam channel in climate and environmental policy out there. Keep it up!
If lies like this are on television so blatantly ..
How ??
Just how
Im lost for words
Look at Fox's business model and you will see why and how. Fox makes its money selling the viewer's eyeballs to the advertisers. The stuff between ads is just eyeball bait. If nude mud wrestling brought in more eyeballs, that would likely be what they would show. Uninformed blather is cheaper to produce that mud wrestling and appears to bring in more eyeballs. Other networks seem also to have caught onto this fact of life.
I love how that supercut perfectly illustrates Tucker's two-settings eyebrows. They're either in the stratosphere or tickling Earth's special spot.
It must be an easy job being Texas's Governor. Don't do shits, talk shits and get elected.
I don't always click the bell icon, but when I do, it's for Climate Town.
Your a BEAST!
Combine self running generators and power walls in homes and businesses for seemingly endless clean energy everywhere all the time. Use 3d printer construction robots to quickly build residents that are cheaper and far better. There are many technologies that would set us free. We just have to actually use it correctly.
Texas has turned into a fascist dystopia since 2008 or so....worse and worse..and people move there with the impression the low rents will help their situation but don't realize how employers pay so little while expecting the world and most stuff is the same price it is everywhere else. They end up stuck in a job that barely pays the bills, forced to have a car for each family member as even the big cities have public transit that is unusable for occupational commutes and only within the metro areas at that. They end up unable to even move back where they came from as few are able to actually save any money in the outrageously stacked against the working class Texas exonomy
whats hilarious is when they prentend to care about birds
Haven't you heard? Birds are government drones. They're not actually real birds! Replacing drones when they lag out in the path of a turbine is extremely expensive. That's why everyone is so worried about them.
Texas: the electricty grid is frozen over and now were going back to the dark ages!
Meanwhile in antartica a bunch of researchers and pinguins are sitting comfortably around an electric heater.
"Sometimes they get taxpayer money to help"?! Every single time I've seen a private utility company need to upgrade or repair public utilities (that are somehow owned/operated by private companies), they _always_ try to get taxpayers to pay for it. And for upgrades in particular, they always end up as referendums on local ballots as to whether or not we'll temporarily raise taxes or issue bonds for the repair work to take place - with the implication that if we don't authorize it, the badly-needed upgrade won't happen.
And that's why I'm of the firm opinion that all utilities should be owned/operated by the government. Whether that should be city, county, state, or federal? I think that's up for debate, although for most places in the US, operated locally but financed by the state would probably make the most sense - lots of rural parts of the country that just don't have the local tax base to cover it.
watching this after reading an article about Texas at risk for SUMMER blackouts.... Wonder how the spin machine will handle that.
I'm so glad I subbed to this channel. The kind of content I was looking for
6:59 definition of a freeze-off: Freeze-offs occurred when the small amount of water produced alongside the natural gas
crystallized or froze, completely blocking off the gas flow and shutting down the
well.
The more we invest in fantasy energy production the less we invest in real energy production.
Windmills are the old Dutch structures that (you guessed it) *mill* grain. Wind turbines are the ones that generate electricity.
I take no offense, being from Canada. Ha ha, once again, knocked it out of the park. Shared across social.
Ah yes, Canada, the land where windmills work in the cold. For some reason they also work in the cold here in Sweden. Funny, that.
@@seybertooth9282 And Alberta, where we also have more than 10% wind and solar capacity, but we also have 15% coal capacity and more than 100% natural gas capacity to provide all the power we need. The idea that Texas could simply borrow heat from the neighbor in a storm by having loads of connections is a bit too optimistic.
Just discovered this channel & I’m in shock on how it relates to my concerns of the fossil fuel usage ! My family moved to Texas in early 2016 & it has snowed twice in my area . The most recent in Feb. was bad for many homes due to the power outage , many friends I knew had no power. I live near a elderly community / medical care community so I had power ! But Texas is very much terrible at being held accountable for its actions ! The air is indeed need of desperate change , plus the people as well trash streets, recycling here is a joke & plastic is everywhere !!! Keep on uploading to help teach others to understand what is really happening in this world!!
Actually part of it was the wind turbines… due to differing temperatures different oils are used with different viscosity. Yes the wind turbines did freeze… the temperature was too low for the viscosity of the normal lubricants!
"Recommendations... Whatever that means!" That summed the situation nicely.
Just adding a comment to support this dudes channel.
We have plenty of wind turbines operating in Alaska. We would gladly help our little brother in the lower 48 make a reliable power grid. Of course you have to put safety and reliability ahead of profits.
I know this video is over a year old when I’m writing this, so someone has likely already said this but what is also nuts is that Texas basically has voting rights nationwide about renewable power. If Texas doesn’t want to let someone connect to their grid, a lot of projects won’t even start. There was at least one wind farm in Oklahoma and if I remember correctly one in Missouri that both failed to start after Texas voted against connections to their grid.
texas votes for texas. it does not vote for oklahoma or missouri.
Hilarious and informative. Keep up the good work with your vids and we'll keep spreading them.
Estimated $18billion in property and casualty losses alone (not including FEMA expenses, grid repairs, surge energy costs, and other price gouging)-- that's over $600 for every person in Texas. For context: winter storms in the whole U.S. usually cause $3 billion in damage annually. That cheap electricity doesn't look so cheap now...
All because the assholes in charge decided weatherproofing was unnecessary. Can we please bring back the guillotine?
The companies won't be giving a shit, because they're not the ones that are gonna be paying that bill.
0:46 You can tell it's a lie because Tucker Carlson's lips are moving.
Tucker must be really bad at poker. He has a tell thats so obvious once you realize. Its when he says anything at all
I am so impressed that the windmills can generate that much electricity. I always thought it was under 20% of Texas supply.
Don Quixote, save us from these evil windmills!!!
People in my state drink till they blackout all the time. Why is everyone in Texas so much less capable?
Wisconsin?
Florida?
My moneys on Virginia
OMG THANK YOU THANK YOU! I will bow out from finishing my outline bc you NAILED this. I cannot stand to watch another moment of Tucker Carlson lie out his ass. Thank you Rollie 👏
My 2 favorite youtubers! I'm honored to see the acknowledgement and some collaboration between you two! ♻️♥️
Hahaha, I dunno, I bet there's enough room on UA-cam for two vids that cover what an unfathomable dipshit he is.
@@ClimateTown i agree
I was waiting to see what you would say, so I hope you still do put it out there.
Yours both channels changed my life 🌿🌍 thx guys! And keep AMAZING job you are doing ! 💚
Shout out to everyone seeing this all play out again in 2022. See ya next year!
This video just popped in my feed. Fantastic analysis... and a new subscriber!
Howdy from Houston! It got a little cold down here and after 40hrs with out power the rolling started. And then when the weather warmed the pipes burst and water stoped.
Saw you on reddit. Keep it up
I live in texas and i purposefully spent about 400$ more than was necessary just on making sure my car had tires that could be taken on ice in an emergency. It's crazy that my grandparents still support these people even though them not winterizing the generators put them at risk and could have done a lot more if they didn't live near a relative who was prepared for this.
I almost FROZE to Death
Thanks to their Grid F UP...
Miss Vikie Howell 🕊💖🕊 with the Texas Take USA 🇺🇸
The patreon vid is this, but with one more unbuttoned button. Just so you guys know what you're missing out on
Seriously the highest quality channel I've come across with less than 50k subs. This is some Vice quality shit and the humor is legitimately entertaining
there's no profit in redundancy when you can charge more for outages due to supply/demand being suddenly unbalanced.
You probably will never make merch because of the eviromental cost, but I would wear a shirt with your face and the phrase "Windmills did all this!" on it. 💜
It's amazing how places with much colder climates than Texas can operate windmills without such problems, but in the oil state of America they're responsible for causing rolling blackouts.
Illinois here, and our turbines work great during the winter too! Also none of the farmers and landowners care because they get paid for usage of the land.
the units in Texas didnt have the cold weather package installed. Its factory option but they saved money. Bad move
@@chucknorris277 bad move for who? The power companies didn't suffer at all, worst they got was a few close golden parachuting from ercot. People died but they were people with no real power politically, so...
A lot of the wind turbines that froze over had been shut down before the freeze. Many of the turbines that hadn’t been shut down did not freeze, but the ones that weren’t moving froze and, once frozen, couldn’t be started up to meet demands. There’s some political (financial) reason they shut down a portion of the turbines during low-demand seasons.
Losing 10% of your generation capacity is critical. When power demand is greater than generated power by a tiny amount the grid goes down.
If you're running a system in which losing 10% of capacity is a 'critical failure'..... Your system was designed by idiots. Or the PROPER design was considered 'too expensive' and a subpar system was implemented instead. Any decent engineer builds surplus into the design, especially when the loads on that system are projected to INCREASE over the period of time it's in service.
And even if your capacity really IS that limited - there are was to cope. Ever been to major cities (NYC, Chicago, LA) during a heat wave? I'm sure you've heard of a rolling blackout, right? Those are implemented to take some of the load off the power system without endangering anyone.
The bottom line here was management tried to save money, and failed to prepare. Their complacency slapped 'em upside the head, HARD. The Texas grid had plenty of capacity, and if they'd have any goddamn sense when they built it, they'd have had at least the CAPABILITY to link up to the the rest of the US grid. They didn't even consider that as an emergency measure because - AGAIN - installing that provision was probably considered 'too expensive'.
Oh, and again - wind turbines work just fine in the cold. We have them here in MI. Remember that 'polar vortex' thingie in 2018? It got cold as balls, and yet we didn't lose power, and those turbines just kept right on spinning.
Quit making excuses for those idiots. They were asleep at the switch. I know it, YOU know it, everyone reading this knows it. They could have prevented the disaster, and chose to ignore it.
@@BrianStewart126 Correct. But Texas DOES lack the capability to connect to the national grid, and that MAKES it a Texas
thing. And if they'd had that capability - even just as a backup measure, it might have been far less tragic.
And I am very (PAINFULLY!) aware of how inadequate our power grid really is. It's outdated, overburdened, and has only limited redundancy. It's no longer a question of IF there will be a collapse of the grid, but WHEN. And sadly, nothing will be done about it until it finally does fail.
The best part of the video was the dog in the background jumping up to trying to catch snowflakes. And I don't say this at all as a diss to the rest of the video, loved it, I just really needed to see that particular thing today. Good for the soul.
5:16 I had to walk away for a while out of sheer disbelief and confusion. These 15 seconds are a flashbang to the mind, and the scathing debunking that follows shook me more. Why is this still allowed?
"This is... obviously a lie... and you can tell it's a lie because Tucker Carlson's mouth is moving".
There... fixed that for you.
Commenting to boost this channel. Keep it up, please, we need this.
Ah yes "Windmills", flour mills powered by wind. They definitely aren't wind TURBINES
This is one of the many reasons why I left Texas. I was clear our current politicians would rather have chaos that makes money than take action on the facts.
I know this is a serious issue, and I'm here for the information. But I effin love your videos and the way you manage to give information with so much humor. You are like the Daily Show for Climate Change. Keep up your good work and spreading the word!
*insert tilting at windmills joke here*
Always, thanks for making the vids man. Also, good outfit for this one. The red toque is sweet.
A year has gone by and the lesson seems not to have been learned. If you own an home in TX, your best option is to have solar panels and your own big battery and one of those systems that can isolate from the grid and power your house. When the going gets tough, the power grid conks out.