Houston Chronicle columnist Chris Tomlinson analyzes the origins of anti-renewable social media messaging following the February 2021 Texas power crisis.
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“They had a spokesman who tweeted out an image of a helicopter spraying a liquid onto a wind turbine, and the caption was, a fossil fuel powered helicopter sprays fossil fuels on a clean energy device to generate electricity. Now, of course, the image was not from Texas. It was a three-year-old image from Sweden. The helicopter was not spraying a fossil fuel, a de-icing liquid. It was spraying water to clean a wind turbine, and it had absolutely nothing to do with the Texas grid crash.”
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