Bitcoin miners and climate change lunatics combined forces and nearly took down the Texas power grid during a cold snap two days before Christmas.
Time to stop playing nice with these dipsticks. They nearly killed thousands of people this Christmas.
Before we completely obliterate the Texas Bitcoin mining industry, let’s first quickly destroy the brainwashed climate change conspiracy theorists with one chart.
Check out the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT’s) fuel mix for the Texas power grid on Christmas Eve Eve:
On a day when Texas shattered the peak record for most electricity ever used during the winter, solar and wind combined to generate a puny 3.9% of the Texas power grid fuel mix.
Natural gas, coal and nuclear provided over 95% of the power.
Just like during the Snowpocalypse Power Outage of February 2021, the unreliable green energy sources once again s**t the bed at the crunch time.
Same thing happened the very next night.
Wind and solar power decided to take the night off on Christmas Eve - as temperatures plummeted and electric use soared.
The Ghost of Christmas Future paid Teddy a visit on Christmas Eve, and showed me a horrifying vision of Christmas 2032 where we all froze to death in our wind turbine-powered homes because we failed to properly handle these art-destroying climate wackos who claim to know how weather works.
U.S. government’s current energy plan:
We can rapidly accelerate the transition from a fossil fuel-based existence to an uncertain green energy nightmare by passing new laws, clicking our heels three times and wishing it all magically comes true.
Imagine the total chaos, carnage and death on America’s roadways last week during the Winter Storm Elliot bomb cyclone, if millions of Americans traveling for Christmas were forced to drive electric cars in freezing temperatures?
From today’s WSJ (via Apple News):
“When temperatures drop to 5 degrees Fahrenheit, the cars achieve only 54% of their quoted range. A vehicle that’s supposed to be able to go 250 miles between charges will make it only 135 miles on average. At 32 degrees—a typical winter day in much of the country—a Tesla Model 3 that in ideal conditions can go 282 miles between charges will make it only 173 miles.””Imagine if the 100 million Americans who took to the road over the holidays were driving electric cars. How many would have been stranded as temperatures plunged? There wouldn’t be enough tow trucks—or emergency medics—for people freezing in their cars.”
What happens if the only charging station on your 180 mile route to Grandma’s house is out of order, and your Tesla can only travel for 173 miles when it’s cold outside?\
In a few short years, we will call this “death by virtue-signaling”.
Let’s move on to these greedy Texas Bitcoin Mining b******s:
Teddy sounded the alarm about these energy-sucking tapeworms back in May:
* Bitcoin Mining and Tesla Charging Could Take Down the Texas Power Grid (May 20, 2022)
* Texas Bitcoin Miners Insist They Are Making the Power Grid Stronger. Guess Who Pays For the Upgrades? (May 21, 2022)
NOTE TO SELF:
Maybe the reason why Elon Musk still hasn’t restored your Twitter account at underscore Teddy Brosevelt is because of that headline where you said Telsa charging could take down the Texas power grid.
Texas governor Greg Abbott invited the world’s bitcoin miners to come to Texas to waste gigawatts of our precious power to solve math problems that generate digital tokens that have no intrinsic value.
Calling this idea “totally f*****g stupid” would be a gross understatement.
ERCOT says they expect 5 to 6 gigawatts of new power demand from bitcoin miners over the next 12 to 15 months.
But their long-term projections keep increasing.
* April 2022: ERCOT says that bitcoin miners representing about 17 Gigawatts worth of electricity use had contacted the state about prospective operations.
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