Any one in this bowl work in utilities? Was it really the frozen wind turbines that caused the grid to go down in Texas?

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No - failure to weatherize caused all forms of energy including nuclear to shut down.

If cold weather and turbines were incompatible, Nordic countries wouldn't have them all over the place.


If you still need a completely unrelated analogy to understand it:

Imagine a scenario where a bulletproof vest rates to stop armor piercing rounds fails to stop .22 round in the field. Do we A) claim bulletproof vests just don't work and remove them entirely from the military; or B) Investigate the reason for failure and adjust performance standards and approval requirements accordingly.

Obviously B - anyone claiming A is insane.

For context, this was an actual issue impacting body armor during the early 2000's - testing standards did not take into account that desert deployments with 130+ degree trunk temperatures would weaken stored body armor. Once discovered, new requirements were out into place to ensure weather would not impact performance.

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