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Have you ever experienced a CAT 4 or 5? There won't be much left standing. It looks like a nuclear blast. This is just wind damage. I've seen water move entire

Have you ever experienced a CAT 4 or 5? There won't be much left standing. It looks like a nuclear blast. This is just wind damage. I've seen water move entire homes a mile with the height of water being as high as 30ft. It can take weeks to months to restore electrical power. To clean the mess up takes heavy machinery run by fossil fuels. And what if you want to start doing repairs to your property that may not be damaged that bad? You will need a gas generator. Solar will not cut it doing heavy power tool work hours on end...meh.

shortcake27 3y ago
So your point is that the grid shouldn’t be powered by renewables because in a disaster you need to drive petrol powered vehicles and run a generator?
fauxpause_ 3y ago
https://electrek.co/2023/03/14/cat-5-hurricane-proof-wind-turbines-gulf-mexico/ https://electrek.co/2023/03/14/cat-5-hurricane-proof-wind-tu...
shadowgovt 3y ago
Much of the time required to restore power after a major storm is grid repair. More distributed wind and solar farms would imply less need to fully-connect the grid to get people back online.
kube-system 3y ago
Electricity generated by coal also requires power lines.
ubermonkey 3y ago
This, children, is known as moving the goalposts. The question of "what fuel do I want for power tools after a natural disaster" is entirely distinct from "what mix of sources should we use to power the grid?" Babelthuap is deliberately muddying the water here. And, yeah, Babel, I live in Houston, and except for college have spent all of my 53 years within an hour or so drive of the gulf coast. I know about hurricanes, even big ones. That's a dumb objection to including renewable energy in a grid plan.
- AtlasBarfed 3y ago
  Because he's a paid astroturfed.
namibj 3y ago
And that disaster recovery equipment runs on coal and/or methane?
nl 3y ago
> Solar will not cut it doing heavy power tool work hours on end Of course it will.

shortcake27 3y ago

So your point is that the grid shouldn’t be powered by renewables because in a disaster you need to drive petrol powered vehicles and run a generator?

fauxpause_ 3y ago

https://electrek.co/2023/03/14/cat-5-hurricane-proof-wind-turbines-gulf-mexico/ https://electrek.co/2023/03/14/cat-5-hurricane-proof-wind-tu...

shadowgovt 3y ago

Much of the time required to restore power after a major storm is grid repair. More distributed wind and solar farms would imply less need to fully-connect the grid to get people back online.

kube-system 3y ago

Electricity generated by coal also requires power lines.

ubermonkey 3y ago

This, children, is known as moving the goalposts. The question of "what fuel do I want for power tools after a natural disaster" is entirely distinct from "what mix of sources should we use to power the grid?" Babelthuap is deliberately muddying the water here. And, yeah, Babel, I live in Houston, and except for college have spent all of my 53 years within an hour or so drive of the gulf coast. I know about hurricanes, even big ones. That's a dumb objection to including renewable energy in a grid plan.

AtlasBarfed 3y ago
Because he's a paid astroturfed.

namibj 3y ago

And that disaster recovery equipment runs on coal and/or methane?

nl 3y ago

> Solar will not cut it doing heavy power tool work hours on end Of course it will.