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Tesla Turns Power Back On At Children's Hospital In Puerto Rico
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Tesla has used its solar panels and batteries to restore reliable electricity at San Juan's Hospital del Niño (Children's Hospital), in what company founder Elon Musk calls "the first of many solar+battery Tesla projects going live in Puerto Rico." The project came about after Puerto Rico was hit by two devastating and powerful hurricanes in September, and Musk reached out about Tesla helping.
Musk's company announced its success in getting the hospital's power working again less than three weeks after Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello tweeted on Oct. 6, "Great initial conversation with @elonmusk tonight. Teams are now talking; exploring opportunities."
Tesla's image of the project's solar array, in a parking lot next to the hospital, has been liked more than 84,000 times since it was posted to Instagram Tuesday.
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The hospital's new system allows it to generate all the energy it needs, according to El Nuevo Dia. The facility has 35 permanent residents with chronic conditions; it also offers services to some 3,000 young patients, the newspaper says. As for who is paying for the power system, the head of the hospital tells Nuevo Dia that for now, it's a donation and that after the energy crisis is over, a deal could make it permanent.
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raging moderate
(4,311 posts)It seems great!
KelleyKramer
(8,985 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)cost lots of money and the same problem in the future again.
Snarkoleptic
(6,002 posts)It seems so regressive that so much of our electrical generation is based on either-
1) The expansion of water into steam by burning fossil fuel (a/k/a energy stored from ancient sunlight).
2) The expansion of water into steam by nuclear reaction, which is the most subsidized (and hazardous) form of electrical generation.
3) Spinning coils through magnetic fields by buring fossil fuels to spin the turbines.
The entrenched interests do not want us to move forward.
SunSeeker
(51,740 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,226 posts)murielm99
(30,773 posts)Whitefish Energy, trump's big donor and Zinke's good buddies.
KelleyKramer
(8,985 posts)This is a positive, it could screw up their shock doctrine disaster plans to take over PR and all the resources
onit2day
(1,201 posts)use with renewables rather than try to fix outdated fossil fuel systems
Midnight Writer
(21,816 posts)Puerto Rico doesn't have sun? Wind? Why pay to import primitive fuels like gas and oil and coal? Won't that be good for everybody?
While they are updating, how about a pioneering desalinization plant?
The hurricane that devastated Puerto Rico was a catastrophe. Rebuilding can be an opportunity, a chance to show the world a new and better way, for everyone.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Have you considered how this will affect Don Blankenship and other coal barons? Have you? HAVE YOU???
Some of these latter-day robber barons haven't wrung every last cent out of the old, worse ways, and now you want to deprive them of stealing the pennies off the eyes of corpses! How can you live with yourself?
Midnight Writer
(21,816 posts)See, I'm not so heartless. The only thing the obscenely rich will suffer from is loss of bragging rights.
MineralMan
(146,336 posts)However, it looks like just a temporary installation that eliminates all parking spaces there. I also wonder how such an installation would withstand a hurricane. A permanent solution is going to require a lot more engineering, I suspect.
Still, restoring power for that facility will be of great help in the interim.