Posted on 08/31/2021 3:15:26 PM PDT by BusterDog
“It (is) a primitive situation,” Kenner Mayor Ben Zahn said.
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Yup, those high tension line towers aren’t a lickity split fix. Not like drilling a hole in the ground and dropping in a wooden pole or stretching new lines to replace broken ones on those same local poles.
That’s life on the coast. Hurricanes tear things down.
No phone, no lights, no motor car,
Not a single luxury,
Like Robinson Crusoe,
It’s primitive as can be.
The looters are having a field day.
Its gonna to be mighty tricky for those folks planning to coexist with the crawlies outdoors in the water . . . snakes, gators, and other deadly vermin just waiting to issue Darwin awards to those who stick around.
Anyone know how many exited this life via this means during Katrina?
Severely primitive, to paraphrase Pierre Delecto.
Nothing Tesla, but diesel or gasoline cars ostill work there, so long as you use some of your stash to generate for the pumps. Larry Elder should running ads touting it as Newsom’s utopia, even before their “big one.”
“Its gonna to be mighty tricky for those folks planning to coexist with the crawlies outdoors in the water . . . snakes, gators, and other deadly vermin just waiting to issue Darwin awards to those who stick around.”
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I’m a little surprised the roads are open so you can get out of there.
I was half expecting the Army Corps of Engineers to say all the bridges were unstable.
Post-Hurricane Michael, we waited a month for the return of water and electricity. We were lucky. We still had a house.
Even after a month, there was so much trash and debris, we soon had to replace all four tires due to so many punctures.
The wind blew all the birds away and if a tree lived, it didn’t have any leaves. Horrible desolation after a major hurricane.
I feel Louisianians pain.
> Its gonna to be mighty tricky for those folks planning to coexist with the crawlies outdoors in the water . . . snakes, gators, and other deadly vermin just waiting to issue Darwin awards to those who stick around.
add downed high voltage electric power lines?
> Nothing Tesla, but diesel or gasoline cars ostill work there, so long as you use some of your stash to generate for the pumps.
You mean, siphoning from underground gas station gas tanks, like they do in the Walking Dead?
And no Mary Ann or Ginger either
Sadly no Mary Ann anywhere anymore. I recall seeing her on stage 10-15 years later. Still a stunning brunette then. Ginger still lives and was certainly a stunning redhead in her prime. But Lovey may have been an even more stunning blond at the age they were on the island. Even her cast mates underestimated her age by a decade during their run.
I know two people in Houlma that have solar panels why because I installed them. They just survived 130+ mph winds and are fully capable of charging a Tesla from zero to full in a single day not one Tesla but three. You don’t have a petrol pump in your back yard but you can have a solar power system on your roof that will cover 100% of 80,000+ miles per year in a Tesla.
Petrol pumps at the station take dedicated 240v current at least 10kw for the down tank pump then you need another 3 to 5 kw for the actual pumps to turn on the card readers or cash registers and the paper to run those. There are very VERY few service stations that have the 20kw+ diesel generators needed to run the station at a bare minimum to pump fuel. During the Texas blackout there was not a single petrol station in 20 miles of my location with a back up generator setup. My solar panels during that blackout kept power on at my home everyday after the initial storm and I charged my buddies Model S from them all the way full. You flat out cannot do that when the pumps are without grid power. But luddites gonna lud I guess. All my neighbors have panels up now after the blackout and coming over to my home that was warm with lights and hot food. I couldn’t have asked for a better demo of the offgrid mode of the inverters and panels. They sold themselves.
“My solar panels during that blackout kept power on at my home everyday after the initial storm and I charged my buddies Model S from them all the way full. You flat out cannot do that when the pumps are without grid power. But luddites gonna lud I guess. All my neighbors have panels up now after the blackout and coming over to my home that was warm with lights and hot food. I couldn’t have asked for a better demo of the offgrid mode of the inverters and panels. They sold themselves.”
Very impressive. Kudos.
What size system do have? How many KWs? I keep vaccilating between the panels and a propane generator.
15kw with two axis trackers with twin 8,000 watt inverters. I fell into solar by chance doing a prepper off grid experiment when I found out I could get by the pallet panels at them 19cents per watt I bought a whole pallet. Now you can get the same 25 year capacity warranty panels for 15 cents per watt in 10,000 watt quantities. Inverters are steady at 20 cents per watt in 5000 or 8000 sized units. Originally the panels were up on the roof fixed at 34 degress and facing South. I have paid so I decided to take 6 sq meters worth and put up on a pole with a tracker it nearly doubled the outputs per day so the rest of the panels came down and went up on poles with two axis tracking. This only makes economic sense if you can sell that extra power for profit which in Texas this summer rates on the wholesale ERCOT market during the day from noon till 1800 have been $130 or more per Mwh that’s 13 cents per kwh at those prices the panels are making $350 a month in energy sales alone.
My panels are not for backup although they do the job well they are for profit and also to give me the option of going off grid 100% due to owning a LLC I get whole sale rates like griddy used too offer to the general public until they got burned for it in February. With access to whole sale power I let my panels feed the grid for profit at peak times and buy power off peak from the grid when it’s 1 cent kWh in the middle of the night. I have ground source heat pumps that use the ground as thermal storage banking heat or cold when power is cheap and then pulling that back using very little energy to run the blower and pump for the glycol fluid. I also have two battery packs on demo from a local provider they are a upcoming competitor to Tesla power walls. These use second life car cells in my case they are from Nissan leafs which were turned in and repurposed. Each pack is a 30 kWh storage and can do a full 1C charge or discharge the limit is the brakes panel they the too will only do 50 amps each for a total of 24kw or 12kw to each coming or going at a time. I bank cheap power at night, sell for profit solar during the day and if the price is right also draw down the packs at 24kw plus the 15 from the panels during peak times maxing out my grid ties amp rating. During the day at peak rates I’m usually drawing down the packs and letting the panels turn a profit. The numbers make sense solar kwh free during the day sells for 13+ cents. Battery pack kWh bought the night before for 1.5 cents used to run my A.C. And home. At night fill back the packs at 1 to 2 cents kWh wash rinse repeat. The O&M on the panels is near zero wash them once a month with freshwater hose, never had to service an inverter they also carry 20 year capacity warranty. The packs are demo units I’m going to release the charge discharge, temps, efficiency data to the company and help with the white paper. So they cost me zero right now in 6 months I will decide if they make economic sense to keep and negotiate a final price for them. Retail for not LLC whole sales they will be in the $12,000 each range. These are twice the size of Tesla power wall at 30kWh not 14.5 Tesla go for 7500 each plus panel the in. Whole sale 2/3 that price it’s always a 30% markup or more for the installers. From 4 months of data so far to make.sense for time of day load shift these packs would need a 10 year payback period at 2 cents night rates and 10 cent plus day rates at the full retail price point. If they come with a 15 year life cycle then boom they make sense if they don’t or capacity fade in 10 years then no they.would only be useful for true off grid setups where there is not access to over night power other than a generator set up which if usee daily then a dedicated diesel is needed those light duty emergency generators won’t last a year of 8+ hr per day of usage even converted to propane not gasoline.
Yeh, that’s a hella setup you have. I was looking at a 5kw 0ff grid plug and play for about $15,000 for our proposed mountain house. I think that was 12 250 watt panels on a tracking pole and 10-12 high end batteries. Or I could just charge up the batteries with a generator for 2-3 hours and get two days out of the charge. We are only looking at lights, refrigerator, small freezer, well pump. No heat or AC will be needed. We utilize solar spotlights all over our property so no electricity needed for outside lighting in an outage. They work great. I agree we don’t want to run a generator 24/7. In the mountains of GA you have to have a backup electrical system.
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