Green New Deal? Wind power ‘dropped off’ the grid during Polar Vortex. Solar works wonders when it has feet of snow on top of it, too. Perhaps Occassional-Cortex can buy her an exercise bike with a generator on it to power us up.
Wind turbines are shut off when temperatures dip below minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit, as happened in the upper Midwest and Great Plains — an area often dubbed the “Saudi Arabia” of wind energy. On top of that, when it gets, say, minus 45 degrees Fahrenheit, there’s not much wind.
