Posted on 02/17/2021 1:22:55 PM PST by Renkluaf
Would be even better if every Texas home had its own oil well, mini-refinery and oil burning generator.
That goes for hyphenated names in general. Germans are worse than average.
I’d be good with a refrigerator sized reactor buried in my backyard. That would be cool.
The average American household uses about 30 kWh per day. A Tesla has a 100 kWh battery which would allow storing a little more than 3 days of average power usage.
Too bad electric vehicles do not have hot-swappable batteries. Tesla’s is about 1200 pounds, but if it were segmented into a dozen batteries it would allow scalable driving range and price points.
What the author overlooks though is the cost. I’m all for a grid that can withstand anything, and one that allow everyone to be energy independent and even “green”. But it also has to be economically viable.
I have solar panels in Kentucky but they have been snow covered for the last few days. My batteries will keep me going for several days in the winter or summer if I turn off the air condidioning. I have whole house solar and with battery backup I don’t even know when the grid goes down until someone tells me.
I believe that the proper use of solar is indeed individual homes but some people are not willing to put up with taking care of a system, especilaly a system with battery backup.
Battery backup is great but you still need a generator in case you don’t have sun for several days so you can charge the batteries from that. 4 or 5 hours of generator battery charging will last me for two days.
I thought, eh, she's not bad looking.
Then she opened her mouth, to speak, and the combination of the teeth that could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence, the frequencies of her voice, and what was actually coming out of her mouth made me recoil.
It reminded me of the Steve Martin movie "The Man With Two Brains" where he is looking for a physically attractive woman to inject with window cleaner so her brain dies first, allowing him to transplant a brain he has fallen in love with into her still living body.
He finds a prostitute who is attractive, and when she finally opens her mouth to say something, even though she is beautiful, her voice is so repellent that he is shocked into silence:
DR. HFUHRUHURR: "I can't inject you with window cleaner!" PROSTITUTE: "I don't mind!"
That was pretty much my reaction the first time I heard AOC open her mouth and speak...
Run the expired blades through chippers and burn them in coal plants. Win-win!
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