Last Man Standing: Nuclear Plants Power Texans During Deluge – Wind Turbines Automatically Shut Down During Hurricane Harvey
Posted: September 7, 2017 Filed under: Extreme Weather, Fact Check, Fossil Fuels, Green Energy, Nuclear, Renewables, Socialism, Wind Farms | Tags: Climate Change Scam, Fission, Fusion, Global Warming Scam, Green Energy Failure, green energy scam, Harvey, Nuclear, nukes, unreliables, Wind Energy, wind energy scam, Wind Farms, wind power Leave a commentWEALTH, Capitalism and Technology save lives. Green energy, Socialism and Poverty kill…
Texans have been in the news for all the wrong reasons, over the last week or so.
Hurricane Harvey belted the Texan coast with 130 mph (209 kph) winds and delivered a deluge of biblical proportions.
For some time now, Texas has been the pinup girl for American wind worshippers. With some 21,000 MW of nominal capacity spread over 40 projects, like everything in Texas, wind power is ‘big’.
Except, of course, when the weather turns nasty.
Modern industrial wind turbines do not operate when wind speeds hit around 25 m/s (90kph or 55mph) – Hurricane Harvey dished up a gale double that speed, and more.
In order to prevent their catastrophic disintegration (as seen in the video below) Texas’s turbines downed tools, en masse, (as they are deliberately designed to do) leaving the critical work of providing power to storm battered Texans to its fleet of nuclear power plants.
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Is Irma The Most Powerful Atlantic Storm?
Posted: September 7, 2017 Filed under: Alarmism Debunked, Climate History, Extreme Weather, Fact Check, Hurricanes | Tags: climate, Climate Change, Climate history, Extreme weather, Hurricane Irma, Hurricanes, Irma Leave a comment“And we can see that Irma is not in the same league as the others.”
MORE sane and measured ‘scientific’ analysis from Paul Homewood. Refreshing, amongst the diatribe of alarmist speculation and theorising from the usual climate ambulance chasing suspects.
By Paul Homewood
There seems to be a lot of disinformation around about Irma being the “most powerful Atlantic Ocean storm in recorded history” with sustained winds of 185 mph, such as the Telegraph above. I also heard the same comment on ITV News yesterday.
As I pointed out yesterday:
Four other storms have had winds as strong in the overall Atlantic region but they were in the Caribbean Sea or the Gulf of Mexico, which are usually home to warmer waters that fuel cyclones.
Hurricane Allen hit 190 mph in 1980, while 2005’s Wilma, 1988’s Gilbert and a 1935 great Florida Key storm all had 185 mph winds.
In other words, there have now been four hurricanes as strong or stronger since 1980, about one every decade, and certainly nothing like the “unprecedented” impression left by the headlines.
And as we know, prior to Allen in 1980, we…
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