The widespread blackouts across Texas serve as an early warning sign as to the kind of destabilizations which might occur if the country tries moving away from fossil fuels, according to a legal scholar. The more the country tries to make wind and solar a primary power source, the more likely it is for mishaps to happen since renewable energy is generally less reliable, said Richard Epstein, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a law professor at New York University Law School. Currently in Texas, wind power supplies only about 25 percent of the entire state’s electricity during winter and nearly half of that can be shut down when ice freezes the blades, according to Politifact. Epstein spoke about the potential consequences if the entire state relies primarily on wind and solar energy, as he noted gas and oil pipelines are “much easier to guard” than windmills since they’re all diffused …