In this episode of the Western Standard Member podcast, I sit down with my good friend and former colleague, Dr. John Rocha, to talk about the dangers of putting all your eggs in one renewable basket, and the benefits of having a backup source of energy.
00:00:00.000Well, it's ironic that you have a country in a region of the world, both Texas and the United States, which are the prowess, the the flagships of energy reliability and energy development, resource and output and exports.
00:00:14.440And yet both have found themselves over the years, Alberta very recently, last month, Texas two, three years ago, when putting all your eggs in one renewable basket doesn't necessarily cut the mustard.
00:00:28.620When you when you put these things to the test and they were tested in Alberta's case, had it not been for the the ability for the province to secure natural gas and to a lesser extent coal, a good number of people would have been adversely affected minus 40 or more degree temperatures in the United States.
00:00:46.720We do know that there were there were injuries and potentially fatalities in Texas, but those areas that were served by natural gas backups where wind power was simply not available, not reliable.
00:00:58.520We saw that they were far more successful in certain areas.
00:01:02.660And it's become very clear through analysis in the Texas case, I think it was Texas Railroad Commission at the time said, you know, without natural gas backup, the the idea of windmills are fanciful and dangerous.
00:01:17.040And I think that's where we're leading today, because I think a lot of the policies promoted by governments on both sides of the border are leading us to really what I consider the net zero collision course in which reality is going to finally hit Canadians and Americans over the head that these things are not ready for primetime.
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