Transcripts. Bannon's War Room. "No Solution. Walsh Breaks Down How Leftist Skewed Green Energy Statistics, Lying About Inefficiency. June 28, 2023.
Topic: Energy. Dave Walsh. June 28, 2023.
Transcripts from Bannon’s War Room on Rumble: “Not A Solution”: Walsh Breaks Down How Leftists Skewed Green Energy Statistics, Lying About Inefficiency
June 28, 2023
Dave Walsh June 28 2023 “Not A Solution” Walsh Breaks Down How Leftists Skewed Green Energy Statistics, Lying About Inefficiency.
Steve Bannon
Dave Walsh the leads during the Guardian Solar helps Texas carry energy load as heatwave puts power grid to test. Dave Walsh effectively says you're either dead wrong or liar, you can take your pick because the blazing headline is that and we just had Dave on yesterday, that with this heat wave in Texas, thank God they've got solar because solar is going to actually see the Texans in the grid through this. Now that is 180 out from the theory of the case of Dave Walsh and the War Room. So, Dave, according to their article the way they wrote it, who's right and who's wrong here?
Dave Walsh
Well, of course, in times like these, when we're worried about peak day, power, any source that runs is a good thing. But here's the deal with this. This is irresponsible and massively irresponsible. We're talking about another in terms of what Texas needs, this is yet another intermittent resource that runs and operates in Texas about 27% of the time. Solar is used for electrical energy. I have a map of the US that shows the solar concentration by part of the country that Denver has, if they want to throw that up, we can show that.
But anyhow, solar is effective in Texas about 6 1/2 hours a day, leaving the other 17 1/2 hours it doesn't operate. Wind, the trouble with wind is it operates 36% of the time and not 64% of the time. And you can't just add these two together and pretend that one compensates for the other because, frankly, they overlap about 5/8. Here's the wind variability daily in the US for electric power generation. You can see that it varies by day.
This is EIA, Energy Information Agency, data for 2020 day by day by day, a 75% variability in wind power for electricity creation. Texas is actually worse than this. This is a US map, more data points, Texas and more condensed geographic region subject to the same weather conditions, sameness of that is 87% daily variability. This is the problem with their dependence on wind. So, we go to the next chart was the map of the US on solar. But if we don't have that with, there you go, this shows solar values by region of the country. And you can see if one could read the legend in the bottom right hand corner is published by the National Renewable Electricity Lapse. This isn't a conservative group, this is a front for renewables.
The publisher of this data, it's good data. It shows that Texas, on average, is about a six-and-a-half-hour solar day. The rest of the time, the other 17 1/2 hours it produces nothing here's the problem with this. In Irving, for example, last night tonight at 10:00 PM, it's going to be 93. At 11:00 PM it's going to be 91, at midnight it's going to be 90. At 1:00 AM, it's going to be 88 degrees.
In Dallas, in the Metroplex, today, solar stops operating at five o'clock 5:00 PM. So, all of those hours beyond 5:00 PM, it does nothing for you. So, here again and the point then if you go to the cost of this, the cost of the Texas Legislature and Senate has just passed a bill to incentivize building 10,000 megawatts of gas plants to back up this this problem of intermittency that that both of these resources have. It's going to provide them 96 million Megawatt hours per year of electricity.
That amount of annual electricity capacity and MW hours if solar would cost $48 billion, passed to the ratepayers, the 10,000 or 96,000 MW, 96 million MW hours of gas fired power will cost the ratepayers about $13 billion dollars, $48 billion of solar, $13 billion if, if conventional gas. And by the way, the solar still only gets you 6 1/2 hours a day and massively overlaps with the same 36% of the time that wind operates. This is not the solution.
Steve Bannon
Yesterday, 18,000 people, I think, had a brown out. I think they're going to start blackouts here shortly or maybe had blackouts. That's two combat divisions. How did Texas get in this situation, where an advanced industrial power like Texas, with all the new stuff in Austin, everything they're doing with chip manufacturing, how do we get in a situation? It's like a third world country. How did that happen?
Dave Walsh
Well, the national policy, the policy on incentivizing buildings and kinds of generation tend to be national through the tax codes. The tax codes have given a 35% incentive to renewable wind and solar. Developers in Texas have jumped on that. There is no regulated power generation in Texas. You have to get to the State House to mandate, and the governor mandate regulations. They don't have an Energy Department in Texas.
And what's wound up happening is developers have built out for them with the support of the state, 37% of their energy resource for electricity is renewable that is available only a very part time, again, 36-37% of the time, because most of it right now is wind, that renewable resource that's been built. So, the state has a massive continuous electricity shortage. And the worst problem with this is actually winter. Most every everybody commenting on this recognizes and understands what Texas saw in January of 2021 is a far worse problem.
It's exactly the same thing down here in the South in winter mornings is the utter peak, and you have a massive shortfall. You have no solar capacity in the morning between 5:00 AM and 9:00 AM, when you have massive demand or peak demand in the winter due to heat pumps coming on, when it's 20 degrees periodically in Texas. That's a bigger problem. Solar isn't there for you, then it doesn't work.
Steve Bannon
We got about a minute. What do you forecast, what's going to happen in Texas in the next couple of days, next week?
Dave Walsh
Well, that we're not looking for weather relief until around the 4th of July. So, we're going to be bumping up against they have 81,000 megawatts of total capacity. We've hit 78 and 80,000 respectively two of the last four days. So, we're going to have continued announcements of voluntary power containment across ERCOT. We'll see how that works.
If the temperatures don't abate, we may have rolling brownouts covering 4 hour day periods, mainly between 4:00 and 8:00 PM, up through 10:00 PM that Texas state is massively exposed to, because it's probably because of the shortage of power overall, about 15 times more exposed to an electricity shortage brown out than the rest of the country, because reserve margins there are so, so low due to this massive over absorption of wind.
Steve Bannon
Real quickly, Dave, where do people go on social media.
Dave Walsh
And I'm on. The again once again the intermittent solar it doubles down on the problem, doesn't solve it @Dave Walsh Energy at the GETTR and Truth Social.
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