God Bless Texas!
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| In winter the expected output of a wind turbine is 0 |
Nothing, shows the failure of the "Green New Deal" and the clueless prattling about "renewable energy" than the energy disaster in Texas which just occurred. To begin with, solar power and wind power are NOT renewable energy. Once that photon has struck the solar panel, it's gone. It will never come back. Once a gust of wind has nudged a wind turbine's blade, it's gone. You will never see that gust of wind again. There is nothing you can do to get that photon or gust back. You cannot renew them, you can not make more wind, you cannot create more sunbeams. You can hope for more, but I've lived in Texas, in summer weeks can go by without a puff of wind, so much for the 12th century technology of wind power. In a Texas winter the clouds can blanket the state without a drop of rain, a flake of snow, or a respite from the gloom. An actual renewable form of energy is wood. You can (and we do) plant more trees, then cut them down, dry them out, and bake them into charcoal. But solar and wind are (except for the clouds and windless day) best described as "sustainable abet unpredictable" energy.
Now, you can scream that the "Green New Deal is not in effect because it hasn't been voted on!" until you're green in the face, to which I say "Be quiet, adults are talking." Ever since Alexandria Occasional Ocasio Cortez put forth her lunatic fantasy (I really can't wait to take an electric train to Hawaii) the political and theological left has been driven by the breathless idea that you can power the industrial might of the world with children's smiles and unicorn farts. No, it hasn't been voted on in the house or the senate, but it has been accepted as the unofficial law of the land by every man, woman, and any combination of those two options on the political left. The truth is, if you want to avoid burning everything you own to keep from freezing next winter, you had better pray for Global Warming on a massive scale.
Nothing is more deadly to mankind than cold. A study published in the British journal The Lancet analyzed data on more than 74 million deaths in 13 countries between 1985 and 2012. Of those, 5.4 million deaths were related to cold, while 311,000 were related to heat. The left will tell you that heat may kill crops, but they will ignore the fact that cold prevents crops from even being planted. They might say that we are all going to burn up from global warming, they might hysterically shriek that oceans are going to rise by feet and wipe out entire cities, to which I say "I warned you once before, adults are talking."
