Absolutely silly tolerances, mind you. Texas was colder in 1930.
> the wind turbine is absolutely an easy narrative to "blame someone else" instead of "us" being the problem.
It's not only an easy narrative. It's an easy picture. It's easy to imagine a wind turbine frozen stuck. It's harder to imagine how extreme cold affects, say, a nuclear power plant.
It's fundamentally populist because nobody has to explain how it works. It's also obviously wrong: there are wind turbines in Canada. It's the kind of thing that allows people to think they understand, without any deference to an authoritative source of information.
It's a low-trust theory that suggests a United States in transition to a low-trust society[1], and that's the worst part.
1: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/07/22/the-state-of...