On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:52:53AM -1000, William Herrin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Frank Bulk <[email protected]> wrote: > > A good portable generator is more than $500, and if it's a wide-spread > > outage there's not enough portable generators to go around, and if there > > were, not enough people to set them and give them their fluids. > > Doesn't take a "good" generator to maintain a -48V battery string. > Drop it off. Plug it in. Start it up. Task some folks on an 8 hour > loop to keep the tanks topped off.
Even battery-buffered overnight, solar PV works great if grid is down or even completely absent. > If the DOT, not noted for its efficiency, can get the major traffic > lights up and running on generators the next day, why can't Sprint, > Cox and Verizon get their towers and fiber concentrators powered up? > That's a condemnation worthy of the word: that your company performed > worse in the storm recovery than the local department of > transportation.
