I'm loving how these wind turbines are just crankin it out.  Thank God we don't have to rely on evil coal and natural gas as much as we used to for our electricity. These 20-30 mph winds have them just-a-hummin.

Except for the ones that are froze solid.  We just got a conserve electricity and natural gas text and phone call.  Said all of Kansas is using their emergency supplies and that they might start doing rolling blackouts.  I'm so over this ****ty weather!

To me they are just as Useless as tits on a Boar Hog, in a time like this.. 

 how do they freeze up

When they get iced up they are out of balance and can't opperate with out risking them to burn up or loose the blades.

well how do the ones up in the north stay un frozen

this should be a good wake up call for people you can not depend or solar. i in florida have not had enough sun to run my night lights

The ones up north don't run in bad weather either.

I didn't get that message.  We're on propane but without electricity nothing runs anyway.  Our water pipes would freeze up in an instant.  I'm envying the people who have Generac.  We have a generator but can't get it started.  Three more days of this nonsense.  It seems like a lifetime.

I am 65 and my husband 72. We have lived through some horrific ice storms. He grew up in northwest Kansas and endured incredibly brutal winters with no electricity for months. With all those memories, we were determined to be 'ready' knowing that as we got older it would be really rough on us to endure days on end with no power.   So -- when we built our retirement home on our farm we had a whole-house natural gas Generac generator installed.  We also have two natural gas fireplaces in our home and our stove top is natural gas.  We thought we had our barn hydrants secure and un-freezable. LOL! Not!  But all stalls have 16-gallon heated water tubs. We are melting snow in those tubs to provide water to our horses.  I have to admit -- it's kinda of nice watching the hideous snow melting away in the tub.... sort of 'sick' to get pleasure from that, but these are desparately sick times.  I pray daily for our nation's ranchers. This is an epic weather event and I am certain those who have pushed Green Energy are having second thoughts as they sit in their frigid homes letting reality sink in.

Wind and solar energy are supplemental at best.

My dad (rest his soul) used that phrase all the time.  Good to hear it again.  

But our president is now programmed to issue executive orders mandating Green New Deal policies.  He gives this blank, vacant stare into the teleprompter declaring climate change to be a grave, urgent "existential threat".  Every time he is forced to enunciate "existential" he dam near chokes and dam near swallows his tongue.  I think it's obvious that he's a vacant puppet who is perfect for the radical left's agenda.  If we watch closely we'll see Kamala assuming more and more of the roles of the president.  That's the same woman who came in 4th in polling amongst Democrats in her home state of Kalifornia.  Biden's first month in office has been a complete disaster.  

Louisiana had a chance to vote on wind turbines. They voted it down. At least they had a choice. 

Exerpts from the Texas Tribune ....

"Some turbines did in fact freeze — though Greenland and other northern outposts are able to keep theirs going through the winter," But wind accounts for just 10 percent of the power in Texas generated during the winter," and the losses tied to thermal plants mostly "relying on natural gas dwarfed the dent caused by frozen wind turbines by a factor of five or six." According to ERCOT, wind power generation is actually exceeding projections.

One nuclear reactor and several coal-fired plants went offline, but "Texas is a gas state," Michael Webber, an energy resources professor at the University of Texas, told The Texas Tribune. And "gas is failing in the most spectacular fashion right now." Instruments and other components at gas-fired power plants iced over, and "by some estimates, nearly half of the state's natural gas production has screeched to a halt due to the extremely low temperatures," as electric pumps lost power and uninsulated pipelines and gas wells froze, the Tribune reports.

After a 2011 winter storm knocked out power to about 3 million Texans, a federal report warned Texas the same grid debacle would happen again if it didn't adequately weatherize its power infrastructure and increase fuel reserves — and reminded Texas that "many of those same warnings were issued after similar blackouts 22 years earlier and had gone unheeded," 

"Upgrades were made following the 2011 winter storm," The Texas Tribune notes, but "many Texas power generators have still not made all the investments necessary to prevent the sort of disruptions happening to the equipment."

Greenland has a population of 50,000.  Texas has 30,000,000. 80% of Greenland's power is derived from hydroelectric.

Exerpt from the WSJ, on 2/16.  Note the quote where wind turbines were generating 42% of the electricity, until the ice storm led to massive failures and that 42% plummeted to 8%.  The backup or reserve wasn't adequate. Obviously the fault isn't all the result of wind turbine failures, with the reference to gas wells and pipelines freezing, but I sure as hell would do whatever it takes to prevent this disaster from ever happening again.  They can keep all the cute green windmills that make us feel like we are combatting climate change, but they dam well better fix their contingency plans:

"The problem is Texas’s overreliance on wind power that has left the grid more vulnerable to bad weather. Half of wind turbines froze last week, causing wind’s share of electricity to plunge to 8% from 42%. Power prices in the wholesale market spiked, and grid regulators on Friday warned of rolling blackouts. Natural gas and coal generators ramped up to cover the supply gap but couldn’t meet the surging demand for electricity—which half of households rely on for heating—even as many families powered up their gas furnaces. Then some gas wells and pipelines froze."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-political-making-of-a-texas-power-outage-11613518653?mod=e2fb&fbclid=IwAR0L7OU-OWuXC_CeY4s3HWnjhqSoOPrGu6VD9gEoQwYG4eoqQ3__HerqgrY

Well we all know the it was DJT's fault anyway.  lol

Just wondering if they got the Wind Turbines up and running again? 

Here is an interesting article on the WHY of this event!

https://politicrossing.com/what-caused-the-texas-energy-crisis/

Why wind turbines didn't work in Texas ......

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-wind-turbines-frozen-power-why-arctic-1570173

I have stated throughout this weather event:

"Fire every gosh****ed politican and bureacrat anywhere near remotely involved with this mess!"

And then there are words applicable to this situation.............."FAILED LEADERSHIP".

If the wind doesn't blow enough the wind turbines sit there, wind blows to strong and they just there.  Not a good source for energy