Puerto Rico’s wind farms were totally destroyed by hurricane Maria - see video below.
https://youtu.be/1AAHJs-j3uw
But Elon Musk wants Puerto Rico to rely 100% on windmills - he’s such a smart guy! Actually he is smart in that he realizes how easy it is to defraud stupid people, when the government helps you do it.
This is a serious mischaracterization of Elon Musk’s ideas for Puerto Rico. For you to say he wants PR to rely 100% on windmills and then you post an article about solar with his name makes no sense. He is very interested in installing micro-grid solar power, and windmills. He has/is just opened/ing a large storage battery business in Atlanta, GA. Whatever is done with solar or wind, it would be very helpful if it were easy to remove and store solar panels or windmill blades. Or at least “feather” all the windmill blades in a down position. I understand a port crane in Ponce’s port was blown over too. I read that cranes in other recent hurricane target cities were not taken down because they needed 2 weeks notice to do this. When living in Miami my son showed me his metal hurricane shutters and the slides around the window for rapid installation. He also has them in PR, so it ought to be possible to invent some kind of quick dismount for solar panels and also for small system windmill blades.
In May 2006, a year after Katrina, I traveled along the Gulf Coast from Tampa to New Orleans. Almost all the debris from hurricanes had been carted away from the roadsides in Alabama and Mississippi, but when I crossed the state line into Louisiana, there were 10 foot high stacks of debris along streets. On the radio there were loud complaints that almost a year had passed by and clean up money was about to phase out and why wasn’t something being done to clean up or extend the time limit. So the mainland isn’t perfect either.