Cheap and Simple Electric Energy for Backup Power

All In With Chris Hayes Highlights: February 17 | MSNBC | 6:27

Mass Suffering From Texas Power Failure

Today it's possible for individuals to buy their own cheap and simple electric energy generator for backup power. The facts are that solar power is available when the sun shines. Hydro electrical power is free where water flows. Wind energy is free when the wind blows. And energy storage is getting smaller and lasting longer like the Tesla power wall.

Technology has evolved to a point where the cost to create, store and supply energy on demand from free sources is available anywhere at scale. However, this week in the news . . .

In the midst of the Texas tragedy, calls for action to save citizens also revealed an urgency inconsistent with reality. While impending climate related death and damage was underway, why would utility companies stop or slow delivery of power instead of doing everything they could to repair supply lines while government worked on emergency relief?

Instead, the Governor chose Fox news to imply that windmills that produce 10% of the state's power to the grid froze and then blocked the remaining 90% of oil, gas and other supply sources. No, it wasn't the windmills.

So how does 10% of the supply chain cause the remaining 90% to fail?

What is the Governor actually governing while constituents are freezing?

And, if utilities increase fees for any reason whatsoever, then the real true problem is absolutely not the green new deal.

Key Takeaways:

When a winter storm in Texas is so cold that millions of Texans are stranded without power, water, or adequate shelter and start to literally freeze to death while management does little or nothing for days, Forrest Gump might say, competence is as competence does.
Instead of doing everything they could to repair supply lines while government worked on emergency relief, the Governor chose Fox news to communicate his opinion of the Green New Deal while utility managers pondered how much more they could charge for repairs. So, it appears pander is as pander does.
If government and utilities choose to act in ways to harm and not help tax paying voters, then it appears that stupid is as stupid does.