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The winter storms that hit Texas were no laughing matter. The ice and deep freeze caused the state’s power grid to collapse, and people suffered greatly. At least 57 people died as a result of the winter storm, mostly from hypothermia.
Unfortunately during this time, social media was here to confuse and misinform the masses about the power failure. In a state inextricably linked to the fossil fuel industry, memes were flying around blaming renewable energy sources for failing with the cold weather. The meme that comes to mind is a wind tower with icicles hanging from it and that’s not spinning, suggesting that it froze. Well, some wind turbines might have froze, but so did natural gas wells. In fact, some news outlets reported that nearly half of the state’s natural gas production went offline because of the extremely low temperatures. T
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