Do we call this greta aoc warren murder of the masses??? When would this type of event occur at that same time as a tornado, earthquake, hurricane. No gas of diesel generator. All electric cars and an evacuation of a coast area is needed. How many cubic yards, football fields of batteries are needed to charge 100,000 cars?
Three days of clouds and solar and battery fails leaving remote community cut off without phones
 If solar power and batteries were a winner anywhere, we’d hope it would be in remote Australian communities. But a cyclone c louded over Central-Australia for a few days and the batteries ran out. People had no money, no phone and no landline either. To boot, the rain flooded the roads, so people were cut off in every sense.
Welcome to Renewable World:
Telstra says the stations that provide landline and mobile phone coverage to some remote communities in Central Australia are not robust enough to withstand several days of cloud cover.
The communities of Santa Teresa and Titjikala, south-east of Alice Springs, were without mobile and landline coverage for over thirty hours in a recent outage.
In the most recent outage, Santa Teresa was also cut off by road because of flooding.
Santa Teresa parish assistant Sister Liz Wiemers said being that isolated was alarming.
“We couldn’t use ATMs, couldn’t buy fuel, community members couldn’t buy power cards,” Sister Wiemers said, referring to the pre-paid electricity system used in remote communities.
Obviously they need diesel-gens as a back up. But because the roads were blocked Telstra couldn’t send any technicians out with one. They said they need to replace those batteries, but may not be able to for a while (busy repairing things in the fire-zones presumably).
This is what 100% renewable looks like. Hope no one needs a doctor.
h/t David B, George |
