and yet somehow last year,planet the state of texas ran out of energy. what that happened exactly. tootle time has been spent ruminating on that. exas well, leaders r ieln texas relied on so-called renewables like windmills, which sound great, certainly fast. but all your friends think school, but they don t really work during windstorms, for example.. in texas they failed and peo and texas, they failed and people died as a result.forn so if an episode of our documentary series, we went to texas to see what this problem look like firsthand. here s par hert of what we foun. with no chance of being approved near malibu or greenwich or in the mountains of aspen, the development invariably happens in poorer parts of the country that no one place for wind farms is texas. but the question is what happens when the turbines stop spinning or the middle of nowhere in texas?e of we re trying to find a place just to sleep tonight. everything is sold out. t there s nothing available. it s now e