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After reading a similar letter 3 or 4 years ago I bought a generator. The fucking thing is still sitting in my garage in its unopened box.
RWSGFY says
After reading a similar letter 3 or 4 years ago I bought a generator. The fucking thing is still sitting in my garage in its unopened box.
Same, but at least I bought it at Costco maybe I'll return it some day.
RC2006 says
RWSGFY says
After reading a similar letter 3 or 4 years ago I bought a generator. The fucking thing is still sitting in my garage in its unopened box.
Same, but at least I bought it at Costco maybe I'll return it some day.
Don't return it. Keep it. I presume you're urban/suburban. If the power is out 24-36 hours all the food in your fridge is trash. Frozen or not. Even if you keep it closed. 4 hour 40º rule. Most fridges are 34-36º so that will go first. Freezer generally 0ºF. 36 hours that's toast too. If I didn't have one I'd be looking at $800-1k worth of food trashed.
I think everyone should have a decent sized portable generator and 5gal of fuel on hand at all times. Obviously the whole home systems are ideal, but then you're reliant on the natural gas ...
RWSGFY says
After reading a similar letter 3 or 4 years ago I bought a generator. The fucking thing is still sitting in my garage in its unopened box.
Same, but at least I bought it at Costco maybe I'll return it some day.
A fire at a PG&E battery storage facility in Moss Landing, Calif., just south of the San Francisco Bay Area, triggered road closures and a shelter-in-place warning on Tuesday afternoon, officials said. Caltrans said the fire is at an energy plant.
The fire started at 1:30 a.m. today in one Tesla Megapack at PG&E's Elkhorn Battery Storage facility that's near the Moss Landing Power Plant, the utility said in a statement.
A section of Highway 1 is closed, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office said. Southbound traffic is stopped at Struve Road and northbound at Potrero Road and Dolan Road at Via Tanques. A shelter-in-place order was issued for the areas of Moss Landing west of Dolan Road via Tanques, south of Struve Road and north of Potrero Road.
"There is an ongoing hazardous materials incident in Moss Landing," emergency services said. "Please shut your windows and turn off your ventilation systems. In the event of changing weather patterns, impacted areas may change."
What the hell are batteries doing at a power plant anyway? It makes no sense to me.
If you drive a Tesla in N. California, you are charging it with the electricity generated by Moss Landing (burning natural gas).
What is this about "conversion" to battery storage?
Moss Landing is one of the largest fossil burning plants anywhere; California already doesn't have enough electricity.
RC2006 says
RWSGFY says
After reading a similar letter 3 or 4 years ago I bought a generator. The fucking thing is still sitting in my garage in its unopened box.
Same, but at least I bought it at Costco maybe I'll return it some day.
They eon't accept it back after 6 month.
Gotta love CA democrat government management of the power grid.
My generator is dual fuel and I always keep at least a few tanks of propane that are full, each one is good for 20 or so hrs.
One problem with gasoline is that it goes bad after a year or two.
RC2006 says
My generator is dual fuel and I always keep at least a few tanks of propane that are full, each one is good for 20 or so hrs.
That's very wise. One problem with gasoline is that it goes bad after a year or two. Perhaps you could syphon gasoline from a car, too. (Yay gasoline cars!)
I have a pair of 5 gallon cylinders. I usually wait (several years) until one is completely empty and the other is light before refilling. Probably should start refilling a single one as soon as it is empty. I also have a few of the smaller (1 quart?) green canisters which I refill from the large ones. I'm never buying the small ones again after buying the refill adapter!
Since I live in the expensive part of Sunnyvale, I figure any outages would be very high priority, so haven't looked at getting a generator. So far (18 years) I've been OK! There was an outage in Cupertino w...
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Gotta love CA democrat government management of the power grid. Remember when they said "We can go green AND maintain reliability AND save money. Dont listen to the waycist republicans!"
Just wait for the grid strain of EVs over the next decade...