Interesting to see what a forest of wind turbines is now populating, in particular, IA and southern MN. I would have expected the hotspot to be the Dakotas, but really not so much, except for that little part next to MN. The turbine blades get shipped in through Duluth/Superior oftentimes. (I watch the freighters when I can.)

Surellin, yes, there is a pronounced periodicity to the output charts of those wind farms. Looks like troughs happen in Jul/Aug a lot. That is curious.

They do, nothing between Amarillo and the North Pole but a wire fence, which blew down.

It’s Austin and Houston that aren’t… where the population is more concentrated.

Also the picture of the frozen wind turbine blades being deiced from a helicopter is not from Texas but rather Sweden. It was used in a sales brochure by the helicopter company.

Here’s the link (sorry its from my phone): http://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-56085733

If you want to understand what just happened to the electricity in these parts, read this.

https://www.hefner.energy/articles/the-failures-of-government-power

It’s not just about failed wind power – but it is about the mindset of people that want us to use more of it. And as a consequence, the Powers That Be subsidize the crap out of it, allowing wind investors to turn a tax-break profit at negative electricity prices – thus driving fossil fuel power gen straight out of business, and nuclear not even answering the phone.

The section about the IT sector’s electricity consumption is mind-boggling.

What isn’t mentioned here is that alternative energy’s supreme weakness may be found by looking no further than its name: “Alternative”. As is in, Not Primary. It’s a fashionable parasite, an expensive symbolic toy dependent on the system that is already maintained for the grownups.

Also not mentioned, is that this same dynamic plays out in California every year, for the same reason. I’m all for science and all for innovation, and accept that society and industry should partner to support it. But we have policy makers around the world who are lunatics; They are -right now- proposing policies like abolishing internal combustion engines in a few years, and they have no plan – read, NO plan, not even conceptual, for doing this.

We cannot accept policy makers who wish-cast. Policy is based on need, and is bounded on all sides by reality.

I had just finished cooking our pasta and pork medallions this evening, getting ready to plate up and the power went out, power on lasted longer than usual and power out for about the 12th time, I don’t know when but there we were, beautiful wife and I eating a nice dinner by candlelight and just as we finished the power came on again. Bad weather predicted for tomorrow but we are learning how to live with this stuff and it makes us appreciate the life we have when all of the pieces come together and work ever so well.

So, there’s that.

Every years we get nonsense about “HOTTEST YEAR EVAH! Few realise that such claims are created artefacts, not measured facts beyond dispute!

One independent fact is all-time record high or low temperature by state. You’ll find that two-thirds of these high records were set before 1960; only about one-third set since then.

In the new century of the past 20 years, more all-time low temp records by state have been set than highs. Including an new all-time US low temperature record (2011), to complement the US record high in 1913.

The the two dirty secrets about temperature and “global warming” are these. First, in the US, it was warmer naturally between the 1880s and the 1930s. The recording of temperature records in nature (called paleoclimatology) show this.

Thus, there are no temperature proxies supporting the notion that our lifetime’s climate is unusually warm — contrary to the standard alarmist message.

The popular impression otherwise began with the Hockey Stick debate (early 2000s), culminating in Climategate at the end of 2009. (See the short, lucid documentary review here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_8xd0LCeRQ.)

But politics prevailed over science. Scientists deliberately lied about conflicting data of science to please their institutionally supported, gang-driven paymasters.

Indeed, our age of Fake News began with Fake Science coming from the Left in the “climate wars” of the 2000s, in the narrative contest over global warming. The fact that “Climate change” by added man-released CO2 has replaced the more objective “global warming” signalled their triumph.

They can lie without any punishment. On the contrary, extremism over climate change gets little Greta Thunberg a fortune in financial support and international celebrity!

And thus for 20 years, at least, the authorities have been re-shaping the surface temperature records to support their poorly, in fact falsified, theory of man-made global warming. (See “Is The Global Temperature Record Credible?” https://newtube.app/TonyHeller/NbiK6Wr)

Narrative uber alles!

http://www.mikesmithenterprisesblog.com/2021/02/the-propaganda-campaign-to-convince-us.html

Back to my usual pessimism. I have a bad feeling, nay, certainty, that this Texas Blackout will result in the creation of new and innovative perverse incentives; ostensibly to ensure this never happens again, but… Well you know what comes next…