Why? Because I don't want food to spoil? Because it's not the 18th century.. Honestly, it comes down to the pump. The first outage we had no plumbing and it was horrible. In all honesty, that is why the generator was retrofitted to the house. The standard generator at Costco can handle that and the other stuff comes for free. It isn't difficult to maintain, I changed the oil two times.

For reasons I have already mentioned, mainly 1) it lasts a few days at best, and 2) I don't want to be tethered to my house in a power failure. If I have to go grocery shopping I want to know my family at home can still flush toilets.

I don't hotel. Too expensive and we usually have our dogs with us.

Social democracy is the way to deal with it. If everyone has a stake, but nobody has overall or excessive power, and the government truly works for the people, the outcomes tend to be decent.

It probably does cost Google something. They scan apps and devices for malware, and anything that increases the number of apps and ways to distribute them will increase the cost. They also have to certify these app stores, they aren't just going to let anyone set one up and start distributing malware or pirate streaming apps.

It feels calibrated to deter unserious applicants, but not cause further legal woes.

The real issue is F-Droid and similar open source app stores. It remains to be seen exactly how it is going to pan out.

lol- are you trying to mansplain what I've already told you to me?

You truly are hilarious.
The Nile Delta, also, is not a desert.
Because the amount of groundwater there prevents it from being arid. The amount that falls from the sky is utterly irrelevant.
Tulare basin is the same. Little water may fall from the sky, but it has an absolute abundance of ground water.
Lush marshlands are not deserts.
You are fixated on this idea that a desert is defined by a certain amount of rain that falls from the sky, and that's quite simply wrong.

Your point, was that they are "trying to grow pistachios in the friggin desert", as if the water to do so were being pumped in from some faraway place.
As if the Tulare Basin didn't have abundant water.

As I said, they don't grow them in the fucking Mojave.
You said a thing that was wrong, and you're trying to defend it to the death, and it makes you look ridiculous.

That's interesting. Ours hasn't quite caught up yet, and will do things like limit the size of the inverter you can install because they don't trust the export limiter.

How does it work for an outage? With solar inverters they need to have a special island mode where they disconnect the grid, so there is no chance of backfeeding power into it and electrocuting the technician who is trying to fix it. Most inverters don't support that and have an automatic cut-off if they don't detect the grid is up (i.e. there is already 110V 60Hz there).

If you have Vehicle 2 Load you can just plug appliances directly into the car.

I don't know. I'm not from your country. We do import healthcare workers all the time. That's the problem with medicine for profit. Helping the people is not profitable at all.

Well, I have three fridges, two freezers, a water pump (keep the toilets flushing thank you), three very old PCs and a full entertainment system to keep going in a storm. More relevant to this article, there will be people at home that need power when I leave. The outages are regularly longer than 5 days and I know that things can drop to third world a lot faster than that; like try telling people they can't charge their phones.. but I digress. In the midst of a power failure there are already a million things to worry about. The generator has been one less thing so far. Besides, what is keeping your plumbing going during a storm.. I doubt its batteries.

Efficiency of doing it your way: 0%
Efficiency of doing it my way: 75% and getting better with each storm.

Many of the nuclear fanatics want it because they think it means they don't have to change their lifestyle, or because they are NIMBYs and fear wind turbines and solar farms appearing near them (but don't care about nuclear plants near someone else).

Renewables and storage are by far the cheapest and fastest option now. Nuclear is just kicking the can down the road, not doing anything for another 20+ years because "nuclear is coming".

Coincidentally published today: https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

Nissan did it back with the original Leaf around 2012. It was advertised as for emergency use and required an expensive wall box. Later there were V2G options for it, also rather expensive.

EV owners think doing things like towing and going for long drives is something that only a few people in America do. They think the majority are just going back and forth to work and staying at home for the whole life of the vehicle. It's really hard for them to admit that there are a great many people with more interesting lives than them.

I didn't realize that many people lived alone and didn't have anyone at home when they were at work. What I ascertain from this is that Tesla owners are very lonely.

How does it make sense to buy a $70K vehicle to do something an $800 generator can do? What do you do when your vehicle is running your refrigerator and you need to go to work for the day? The world doesn't stop when there is a power failure.