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A few months of wildfires with brownouts where only half the population can have power at a given time will save a bucketload, too.
by BearOso 5y ago
A few months of wildfires with brownouts where only half the population can have power at a given time will save a bucketload, too.
- kadoban 5y agoYou think California spent months with 1/2 the population without power at a time?
- BearOso 5y agoNot continuously, just intermittently for a few months of the year.
- borski 5y agoAs sad as the fires were, it was nowhere near half the population without power, “for months.” Even intermittently/cumulatively. Turns out, a LOT of people live in CA.
- sologoub 5y agoNot really, I sat through the outages in Bay Area in the coastal area that basically got turned off by PG&E at the slightest hint of winds (yeah the coast is windy, that’s not new) and eventually broke down and bought a gasoline powered portable generator… not having hot water to shower with gets old very quickly, as does refilling ice chest with actual ice to have food. Even then, it was at most a few weeks total. Annoying as hell, but probably not enough to really move the needle. Wish we could have had autonomous solar (but while renting, that wasn’t an option). Best I could do was a portable panel to recharge phones/power banks for the evening.