Re: thinking about leaving the us
@19
There were way more problems than renewable energy in the Texas thing, for what that's worth.
Solar/wind/etc makes sense for you guys if and only if you also invest in the energy storage technologies to make it through periods like that, but my understanding is that the actual problem was that the entire grid was fragile. This wikipedia article links lots of sources and says that solar/wind turbines were only blamed initially and weren't the main cause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
I think the most relevant quote is "However, renewable energy accounts for only 23% of Texas power output". Maybe that's not true, but outside a very few places in the U.S. we are still mostly natural gas and coal.
Most of the U.S.'s electrical grid is held together by paperclips and glue though. It's a big problem. No one wants to invest in it because it's boring, works, and costs money. Then it doesn't. No one wants to make it government run or government oversight, because capitalism, then we get PG&E and Texas and that thing in Massachusetts a few years back and the big New York blackouts at various times and...because everyone is trying to run public utilities for a profit.
Unfortunately fixing this also requires higher taxes, which, well, haha. Not in the U.S.
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