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Puerto Rico’s power grid has been practically demolished in the wake of hurricane Maria. It now has a once in a lifetime opportunity to rebuild and the island’s governor Ricardo Rossello wants to have a chat with Elon Musk about his recent offer to use Tesla batteries and solar power for the the job.
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If you look at the media coverage you will discover that the major reason that Puerto Rico is without power is because the power poles were often knocked over by the high velocity winds. What repairs are they making? They are putting up new poles to eventually be knocked over. Simple fix? Install underground waterproof power lines as can be fairly easily done. These lines would come out of the ground and into power distribution boxes that are built above the worst expected flooding levels. These boxes would distribute the power to homes and would contain circuit breakers to stop the current flow to homes that flooded. This would allow very rapid repowering of hurricane damaged neighborhoods.
Other problems were an almost total lack of a general road system built to withstand hurricanes. Since Puerto Rico is in the hurricane zones why hasn't this been a major priority?
Instead we have a trash talking moron of a mayor telling us that Trump caused all the damage in Puerto Rico despite there being 10,000 containers in the shipyards with emergency supplies sent immediately by America. No roads to distribute the supplies, no trucks to deliver them and no drivers to drive the trucks.
Liberals can kiss my Hillary Clinton.
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People do not realize just how little power can be generated with solar cells. Let me give an illustration.
Pacific Gas and Electricity by using federal subsidies and tax breaks has built a "solar and wind power" system that if it were ALL generating at it's full capacity it could provide 19% of the full demand of its entire customer base both private and commercial. That is a HUGE amount of power.
The year before last was a drought year with almost perfect wind as well as little to no cloud cover. The most perfect conditions possible. How much power did they generate with their huge system? 3% of demand. In a normal year it would be 2% and in a rainy/cloudy year with either too high or too low winds would give 1% or less.
Without the tax breaks and the ability to tell people that they have a huge renewable energy system they wouldn't have ANY of this. It will NEVER pay for itself. It is good only for advertising since a single coal fired plant would generate more energy than all of the renewable systems combined. Modern clean burning coal systems offer less pollution than it takes to construct, install and maintain PG&E's systems that are spread all over hell's creation.
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to perfect technology you have to challenge people to evolve it. Even if it becomes a part ofvthe solution it will help to evolve this technology and make it more efficient
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