As another northern winter bites, it’s worth revisiting the deadly renewable energy calamity that hit America’s heartland back in February. Hundreds died in freezing homes, left without electricity thanks to hundreds of iced-up wind turbines, left frozen solid, and breathless frigid conditions that meant the remainder delivered no power, in any event. Solar fared no better, panels were plastered in snow and ice from horizon to horizon, delivering nothing but a twisted sense of virtue.
The Lone Star State – America’s wind and solar capital – was the worst hit. It took days to restore power to Texans, and hundreds of thousands of others across the Midwest were in the same perilous predicament.
The deadly catastrophe was as perfectly predictable as it was perfectly avoidable.
Had Texans maintained their reliance on ever-reliable coal, nuclear and gas, instead of obsessing about subsidised wind turbines and solar panels, the disaster would have…
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