<div dir="auto">I just asked, "Alexa, what percentage of US electric power comes from nuclear?" The answer was that approximately 20% of the Country's power comes from about 100 nuclear plants. I believe nuclear has become expensive because of outdated regulations and liability expenses. Is that correct, Jack?<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Does Texas have any?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 10:20 PM cody dooderson <<a href="mailto:d00d3rs0n@gmail.com">d00d3rs0n@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Leave it to a conservative think tank to get to the root of this story first(sarcasm). I would like to see some proof to their assertion, and hopefully before my inlaws come over and rant my ear off about the dangers of Biden's wind power . Wind power is only about 16% of Texas' total energy generation 🌬. While I do not understand the details of electricity grids, I find it hard to believe that a few frozen wind turbines lead to a near statewide blackout. </div><div>On top of that, I was under the impression that wind power was very intermittent, and energy storage is still a huge problem. Was the Texas power grid relying on the wind to be blowing really hard during this cold snap? </div><div>That being said I hope renewable energies become more reliable and cheap and those conservative think tanks lose their Exxon funding. </div><div><br></div><div>🌬 October 2017 data from <a href="https://www.eia.gov/beta/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/0?agg=2,0,1&fuel=vtvv&sec=g&geo=0000000002&freq=M&tab=generation&start=200101&end=201710&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&maptype=0&rse=0&pin=" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.eia.gov/beta/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/0?agg=2,0,1&fuel=vtvv&sec=g&geo=0000000002&freq=M&tab=generation&start=200101&end=201710&ctype=linechart<ype=pin&maptype=0&rse=0&pin=</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Cody Smith</div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 8:51 PM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p><a href="https://www.texaspolicy.com/heres-how-the-texas-energy-grid-fell-short/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.texaspolicy.com/heres-how-the-texas-energy-grid-fell-short/</a><u></u><u></u></p><p>Another viewpoint on the Texas Powergrid mystery. <u></u><u></u></p><p>Clean energy is definitely made the boogie man here. <u></u><u></u></p><p>n<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br>
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