When happen when you choose green energy

[The_King]

At least 10 people have died and countless others are facing life-threatening conditions as Texans prepared to enter day four of frigid weather without heat and power. 

A growing concern is for those people in the storm's path with serious health conditions.  "That’s concerning not only for temperature but also for people who are on oxygen or do need electronic devices for their health," said Comfort Homes Director of Operations Kasey Breidenthal, according to KTAB, the CBS affiliated TV station in Abilene, Texas 

In the Dallas suburb of Richardson, a woman who relies on an oxygen machine had to be taken to a local hospital and then a dialysis center where the machine was charged, the Texas Tribune reported.

 

Conversely, carbon monoxide poisoning has become a major health concern. At least two deaths have been reported and in Houston alone, Texas' largest city has seen  300 carbon monoxide poisoning cases, according to the Houston Chronicle.  The rise in cases has come about from people trying to stay warm in running cars in garages, BBQ pits and generators used indoors. 

The power problems have also impacted water pressure levels across The Lone Star State. An estimated 7 million people were told to boil their water or stop using it entirely as homeowners, hospitals, and businesses grappled with low pressure, broken water mains and burst pipes. 

South of Austin, in the city of Kyle, residents were asked Wednesday to suspend water usage until further notice because of a shortage as disruptions to water systems also hit Houston, Fort Worth, Galveston and Corpus Christi.

As the state struggles for warmth and survival, lawmakers locally and nationally directed anger at the state's Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which according to its web site "manages the flow of electric power to more than 26 million Texas customers -- representing about 90 percent of the state’s electric load."

Gov. Gregg Abbott served notice of a pending investigation. 

 

 

Bill Magness, the CEO of ERCOT attempted to explain the reason for his agency's actions in an interview with KEYE, the CBS affiliate in Austin.

 

"These outages, while they’re extremely difficult, and we’re trying to get them to end and get power back to people as fast as we can, are a controlled method of making sure we don’t lose the system, to make sure we don’t have a much bigger catastrophic event on the system," said Magness 

The under-fire executive expressed empathy for his fellow Texans. "Having to live without power during these kinds of conditions is horrible, absolutely." Still, he stressed that if not for the outages, the state could be facing a larger crisis.

 

 

 

"The catastrophic outcome I’m talking about is if we had let the system go into a stage where a blackout would happen, we wouldn’t be talking about when are we going to restore the power, when are we going to turn it back on," said Magness. "We would be talking about rebuilding portions of the electric system. We wouldn’t be able to do this in days.

Magness was not able to say definitively when the power would resume, but he hoped many customers would see at least partial service restored by later Wednesday or Thursday.

More than 3 million homes and businesses were remaining without power for the third day of a historic winter storm that is pummeling the state.

 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-energy-company-cant-say-when-power-will-be-back-as-millions-left-to-deal-with-brutal-winter-storm

[The_King]

[The_King]

ya global warming my ass

[The_King]

[socrates469bc]

only kgks will believe in renewable energy being environmental friendly.

 

the environmental pollution entailed in manufacturing and recycling a photovoltaic cell is a close second to coal generation.

 

this is an undeniable scientific fact!!!!!!

 

https://theconversation.com/does-green-energy-have-hidden-health-and-environmental-costs-52484