A Lesson to be learned in Texas

I am not an expert in Green energy. I am not an expert in just about anything. So when I hear stuff I have to judge it based on what I know. So I heard from a liberal as we were talking that the reason Texas had such difficulties in the recent bad weather, it was Trump's fault because they didn't have this electrical energy stored up for when the peak cold hit to supply the load that was needed. So here I go with what I do know. On the conservative side, I hear that at least 15% of Texas energy comes from green energy as in wind turbines and solar panels. The Wind turbines were frozen and would not turn and the solar panels were covered with snow and would not produce electricity from the sun. So what I do know, to store electricity requires batteries. A lot of electricity requires lots of batteries.  Can you imagine the large number of batteries that would be required to power a large city like Houston or Dallas/Fort Worth? Think about it for a moment. Add to that what I know about Hydro Electric power.  They open up spillways to allow more water to flow to generate more electricity, it is not stored. Take the Diesel Electric train engines that power the heavy loads of trains traveling across our nation. Electric motors are a good way to bring energy to the wheels of the locomotive to move the train. But the electricity is not stored in large batteries. It would be too heavy. The electricity needed is generated on the spot by diesel-electric generators.   a typical train might haul 3,000 tons of freight 500 miles and consume approximately 3,049 gallons of diesel fuel. (Googled it)  Now I have sat at crosstown in Tupelo and watched many a train travel through. You will count approximately 25 to 30 railroad cars per locomotive. Batteries are large and expensive and heavy, that is why the electricity is generated on the spot. I am not buying that it was Trump's fault that there was no storage facility for electricity and that is why Texas had such a tough time in the most recent storm. I am inclined to believe it was the reliance on green energy that did not work during the freak storm that traveled through. You think it through. How many batteries do you want to build to store electrical energy for peak needs?  It works on a smaller scale like a car battery to get your car started but as you drive across the country the electricity needed for your car is generated by an alternator and on older cars by a generator. Look at the number of batteries needed to power an electric gulf cart. Why do homeowners buy an emergency generator to power their homes in a power outage instead of a huge battery pack? It is not feasible on a smaller scale and certainly is not feasible on a larger scale like a state the size of Texas or a city the size of Dallas. Come on man it's not Trump's fault. Think this through. This green energy is not all it is stacked up to be. Thank you, God, for the lesson in Texas.  God bless, LVZ.