Re: Wind Solar unreliable compared to Gas Coal Nuclear

Jim Wilkins wrote:

> "Just Wondering"  wrote in message
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> 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."  (snips)
> 
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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.

Mom was divorced and Dad didn't pay the 51$ child support.  She always
put a bit of shelf stable foods aside, having been raised in the
depression then the WWII years of rationing.  I've always done that
too.  We were fine.  It helped a LOT that I'm a scratch cook.

She did a fine job raising us 3.  None of us experienced more than a
slight frown if we had to swap a planned dish over lack of supplies
during the covid hoarding.

The money just wasn't there to go backups but after I pay off the last
of the solar, I'll look at 1 battery to add to it.