Posted on 02/17/2021 1:22:55 PM PST by Renkluaf
Yeah, snow-covered panels would be super useful.
[I once had a boss like him. “I can imagine it, therefor you can do it.”]
You should have made a starship with warp drive and a transporter and hand-held phasers while you were there.
Worked for similar. No documentation (of any value), no transfer of knowledge (other than superficial), no anti-virus, no LAN/SAN, no admin privilege restrictions on desktops, no backups and no I/T policies / procedures of any sort.
Here’s a surprise: They kept having problems with a 40-year-old system ported to a 20-year-old system.
Additional cost of a battery backup power to get you through 3 days is not cheap. $14-23k installed.
And it’s not going to power your heatpump at subzero temps. Better to have a furnace for heat. Either gas or heating oil. Or a good sized internal combustion engine powered generator.
[You can’t make this stuff up.
I think that’s the only way to write this crap.]
And he becomes Chairman Jao Bai Din’s Energy Czar in 3, 2, 1...
Bullshit! Try to have your solar panels and batteries work in Indiana. We don’t see the sun for a couple of weeks at a time, maybe 40% of the year at best. What good does that do?
You can tell by the screechy tone that starts this whole thing off that it’s going to be followed with a bunch of emotional bull$hit.
If you raise cattle you can also burn the manure.
The level of stupidity achieved by the author of this article is breathtaking.
In any event, as bad as our current electrical grid problems are today, think about how much worse they’re going to be when 50% of the cars and trucks (or more) are trying to charge every day. Even Elon Musk has publicly admitted that we simply don’t have the power capacity to migrate to electric vehicles.
I call “Shullbit”. If the thinking people want real “green energy”, then a thorium-based Molten Salt reactor driven power generation would be the appropriate technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
Solar power is NOT AVAILABLE when the collector panels have six inches of snow, or there is any overcast either, And batteries? Does ANYBODY have any notion how big a battery storage unit would have to be provide power to a grid supplying 100,000 homes and major industry?
This must be this person’s eating mouth he is talking out of, as his rectal orifice would have more native good sense.
Generac is name ..
You owe me a keyboard!
So,if we do all this what do we need power companies for?🤔
And flat-earthers just became more sane than the Leftist in this country......
Good Gosh. He looks like one of those guys they spin around on a centrifuge.
[plus getting the Tesla into the kitchen is a Hillary...]
Not if you punch it real hard from down the street and take a hard, fast turn towards the house (if the kitchen faces the street).
ping
Note well his first word is “if”.
Indeed *IF* millions of homeowners had indeed installed resilient solar systems with batteries, they could have run lights, freezers, small appliances for DAYS in the storm.
But as a solar power ‘user’ myself, I can assure you NO ONE but the top 1% or the zealots would have a battery system big enough to heat their homes for days in this cold.
It’s a rare system (read pricey) that is designed for the load-duration of electric heat in sub zero temps. If they had gas heat they could have run the forced air fans (110v) for a good while.
I am a user and advocate of resilient solar power, but I am pragmatic as well. This author does the industry a disservice.
IF everyone had a $100K PV and battery system???? Come on man.
So I just plug my Toyoda’s 200vDc straight into the house and get several days of 240AC out of it....got it. /H
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.