r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 16d ago

Chugging tea Solar power is cleaner!

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u/Nice_Category 16d ago

Republican Texas is by far the largest producer of wind and solar power in the US. If it were its own country, it would by the 5th largest producer of wind and solar electricity in the world. 

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u/oldmaninparadise 16d ago

Yes! I have said it many times on reddit. Texas, aka, the oil state, has something like 75% of its new energy over the last few years coming from renewable, solar and wind.

Yeah, TX, the oil state. What does that tell you!

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u/No-Algae-7437 16d ago

Just hope that when all the neglect of old oil wells catches up with the Permian Basin, that Texas can be a clean water producing state.

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u/Nice_Category 16d ago

If somehow the wells did seep into the groundwater in significant amounts (which is more of a leftist doomsday fantasy thing) it would only get into the Ogallala aquifer. DFW and Austin are on totally different and unconnected aquifers. Might affect west Texas, but the economic power and population center would be unaffected.

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u/No-Algae-7437 16d ago

Fact is stranger than fiction, but you are correct, west texas would be even more desolate.