Re: Wind Solar unreliable compared to Gas Coal Nuclear

On 1/8/2024 7:35 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Jim Wilkins wrote:
> 
>> "Just Wondering"  wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
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>> On 1/8/2024 11:20 AM, cshenk wrote:
>>>
>>> ... 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.
> 
OK.  "I don't have it yet because I can't afford it yet"
is different from "I opted not to."