Re: Wind Solar unreliable compared to Gas Coal Nuclear

"Just Wondering"  wrote in message news:[email protected]...

On 1/8/2024 11:20 AM, cshenk wrote:
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> ... I opted to not have battery backup at my place.  Power
> outages are rare and seldom more than an hour.
>
Certainly, until that's no longer true.  It's like saying "I opted
not to have a fire extinguisher at home.  Home fires are rare and
are seldom catastrophic."  It's like saying "I don't have car
liability insurance.  I don't get in accidents, and if I did they
would be minor ones and not my fault." It's like saying "I don't
have any food storage.  Food shortages at my local grocery are rare
and seldom last long."  No, you don't need an alternate home power
source, or a fire extinguisher, or liability insurance, or food storage,
or take any other risk-avoidance or emergency prepared measures.
Until you do, and if you don't have it by then it will be too late.

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Covid showed that we should increase our food storage, so I added a 12V DC 
fridge+freezer that runs on solar/battery/grid/generator power, an Alpicool 
T60. Ice and wind storm power outages here have lasted over a week.