Wind and Solar Power Totally Fail the 2023 Texas Ice Storm, Welcome to the Year of the Jabroni, Will Twitter Finally Lift Teddy's Seven Month Suspension
2023 is the Year of the Jabroni
Feels like the movie Groundhog’s Day here in Austin, Texas.
For the second February in three years, over 145,000 homes are without power for multiple days in the middle of winter.
But the circumstances that caused the power to go out in 2021 and 2023 are completely different.
When Winter Storm Uri hit in February 2021, thirty million Texans were cranking up the heat as the weather outside hovered in the single digits. Brutally cold temperatures combined with a wicked ice storm to freeze wind turbines and natural gas lines. Temperatures were way colder for a much longer duration. The power went out (and water pipes froze) for millions of Texans.
You could definitely blame that failure on the Texas grid.
The 2023 Texas Ice Storm is totally different.
It wasn’t a statewide issue with the power grid (despite solar and wind totally choking in the clutch, as you will see shortly).
It’s because:
Millions of brittle tree branches got coated with 2/3” to 1” of ice
Tens of thousands of tree branches collapsed under the enormous weight. During a 30 minute drive in North Austin a few hours ago, I saw hundreds of downed trees.
The City of Austin owns and operates Austin Energy.
Like everything else the city runs, it’s a horribly mismanaged circus.
Austin Energy is supposed to trim trees on a seven year rotation.
But I guarantee they stopped their normal tree trimming activities over the past three years because “muh Covid precautions”.
Plus Austin Energy gets a ton of pushback from home owners who don’t want anyone touching their trees.
You can blame Austin Energy for not trimming enough trees. You can blame the Austin City Council for spending way too much time and money on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives and not nearly enough on ensuring that core city services (power, water, police, 911 calls) are functioning properly.
But the 145,000 Austinites who are wearing hats, gloves and winter jackets in their living rooms tonight cannot blame their predicament on Governor Abbott or the Texas power grid for this failure.
It’s local.
The climate crazy lunatics got real lucky with this Ice storm.
If the temperatures were 15 degrees colder and the power surge pushed the grid to the brink, it would be impossible to defend wind and solar’s total failure this week.
Texas has 37,422 megawatts of wind capacity.
Wind power provides 22% of the electric grid mix in Texas. Natural gas is 44%.
But when this week’s Ice Storm arrived in Texas, wind and solar power generation totally failed.
You can view ERCOT’s real-time dashboards to see what’s going on with the grid.
This screengrab from February 1st at high noon shows what carried the heavy power load and saved our asses from catastrophe.
Natural Gas (67.8%)
Coal and Lignite (19%)
Wind was only generating a pathetic 1,529 megawatts (2.5%) at high noon on Wednesday.
Solar was only chipping in a puny 1,496 megawatts (2.4%).
To refresh your memory, Texas has 37 gigawatts of wind capacity.
But wind power provided just 1.5 gigawatts of that capacity on Wednesday.
We need to start treating these climate crazy Jabroni’s with way more aggressive attitudes.
Teddy has been trying to bring “Jabroni” back into the lexicon over the past several Substack posts.
Last Sunday night, Travis Kelce called the Mayor of Cincinnati a ‘Jabroni’ in front of a nationwide TV audience of about 45 million.
Then the Wall Street Journal (!) followed up with an article dedicated to the origins of the word ‘Jabroni’.
Now I’m starting to believe that 2023 is the Year of the Jabroni.
Speaking of Jabroni’s….
I thought Elon Musk was granting amnesty for all Twitter accounts that were wrongly suspended for telling the truth about Covid?!
It’s been nine months since Elon sent that Tweet, and seven months since Twitter suspended me.
Tonight was the third and final time I’m filing an appeal with Twitter.
Told them I’m an independent journalist with a proven track record of being a hero and saving Austin taxpayers (literally) tens of millions of dollars.
I asked them why Substack, Spotify, Apple, IHeart Radio and TuneIn Radio allow my content on their platforms - but Twitter doesn’t.
It’s only been a few hours since I filed that appeal.
But I don’t have much hope for reinstatement.
Elon is a busy man. He hasn’t had time to clear out all the bad apples.
I guarantee that dozens (hundreds?) of far-left Marxist Twitter employees stuck around post-Elon as members of #TheResistance.
We shall see.
Teddy’s going to make more memes in 2023.
This one just came out of the oven:
What’s coming in February 2023?
Teddy’s been researching the wonderful world of Generative AI.
Spending time experimenting with the far-left, super woke chatbot everyone is flapping their lips about.
I fed ChatGPT some red pills and asked it to tweet like Trump.
Here’s a preview:
Teddy is way overdue for an update on the latest Covid madness. And way, way overdue for podcast #42.
The Year of the Jabroni is upon us.
We’ve been way too nice to these Jabroni’s about everything from Covid lies to climate bullshit.
From now on, we’ve gotta start acting like The Rock when these Jabroni’s spew their garbage ideas.
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Thanks for the detailed info. I was without power for five days while crews were sawing limbs and restoring power around town. We need to use more of that natural gas we produce here instead of the ridiculous intermittent NON-renewal energy. Not much you can do with decrepit bird guillotines, AKA wind turbines and decrepit solar panels. But ask a typical Austinite and they will declare them GREEEEEN. And they insist that earth is overheating because Climate scientists all agree.
I tell them they should not get their science from Reuters because that’s political science, not actual science. My advice causes a whooshing sound as it passes through one ear and out the other.