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They do plan accordingly, but not for this kind of extended outage. Labs with critical equipment always have backup UPS or two (or 3!), but only enough to last
by humanistbot 7y ago
They do plan accordingly, but not for this kind of extended outage. Labs with critical equipment always have backup UPS or two (or 3!), but only enough to last for hours or possibly a day. The UC-Berkeley campus is going on day 3 without power, and PG&E has said it may be 5 days.
- melling 7y agoMaybe this would be a good time for college campuses and large companies to consider installing solar and batteries. What ever happened with Bloom Energy? they don’t get much press. https://www.bloomenergy.com/ https://www.bloomenergy.com/
- wahern 7y agoThey're silently making sales around the country. I've seen their installations at a few places in the Bay Area. My guess, tacitly acknowledged by a friend I bumped into several years ago who was a sale rep, is that because their technology doesn't have strong patent protection (just a productization of long-existing tech), and the margins slim to none, they're careful to avoid inviting competition, and presumably can't afford to burn much money on flashy campaigns, anyhow. Hopefully the outages will give them a bump as it seems like precisely the sort of no-nonsense solution to on-site power generation needed by light industrial customers, such as labs and smallish data centers.