ADAMANT: The Green's Black Secret
Texas has deregulated the electric market, so consumers can pick one of several power companies to provide their electricity.
TXU, having been caught manipulating the power grid ala Enron, is now trying to sell itself to a holding company, and is running a disgusting PR campaign hyping the "New TXU" promising "reliable, affordable electricity for everyone" with a background image of windmills!
Wind is neither reliable or affordable, but it makes the greenies go all dewy eyed when you show windmills spinning away. The ones in the TXU commercials are spinning fast enough that the blades are blurred, indicating that they are in runaway condition, and probably near the mechanical self-destruction point.
At the power-to-choose site, power companies are graded on their generation methods, i.e., how much coal, how much natural gas, how much nuclear, how much "renewable" etc.
I am looking for one that is all coal and nuclear, no natural gas, no "renewable energy". I want the one that makes sense, not sound bites.
If the greenies are so upset by CO2 emissions, I suggest they hold their breath until they drop dead.
Later Of course it's not possible. Other than the moon beam and fairy dust plants that sell 100% wind power, there are only a very few actual power producers in Texas, and a look at the generation mix reveals that every one has around 50% natural gas in the mix.
Those TXU commercials are still disgusting.
Posted on April 15, 2007 12:39 PM