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| Marco:
--- Quote from: Yansi on October 12, 2019, 10:30:58 pm ---Or just teach Americans to put the damn distribution wiring into the ground, like the developed central Europe does. --- End quote --- That won't diminish the fact they live in areas which have historically seen forest fires on decade time scales. The forests people live next to have to become artificial forest, mechanically maintained. Isolated from the real forests, maintained by fires. Mechanical maintenance of all the forest is infeasible and stamping out every little fire before it could run its course has lead California to the current situation. |
| Mr. Scram:
Forrests need to burn from time to time to prevent fatal buildup of combustible material. That's why controlled burns are being done regularly. |
| NiHaoMike:
How long before residents get fed up with expensive, unreliable power and just go off grid? --- Quote from: Marco on October 12, 2019, 10:55:01 pm ---That won't diminish the fact they live in areas which have historically seen forest fires on decade time scales. The forests people live next to have to become artificial forest, mechanically maintained. Isolated from the real forests, maintained by fires. Mechanical maintenance of all the forest is infeasible and stamping out every little fire before it could run its course has lead California to the current situation. --- End quote --- The solution is responsible harvesting of trees in order to not allow the forest to become too dense. If we're going to cut down trees for wood and paper, why not do it where there are too many trees? |
| Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on October 12, 2019, 11:23:06 pm ---How long before residents get fed up with expensive, unreliable power and just go off grid? The solution is responsible harvesting of trees in order to not allow the forest to become too dense. If we're going to cut down trees for wood and paper, why not do it where there are too many trees? --- End quote --- It's not just the trees themselves. It's the material they shed and that's effectively impossible to remove mechanically except on a tiny scale. |
| TerraHertz:
The most amusing aspects of this: * All the people with Teslas, no way to charge them, and 20 miles to the nearest food store. * Everyone who installed commercial grid tied solar, thinking it would give them independent power. Now discovering that with approved design systems, no grid power = no power at all since the solar system refuses to run independently. Not so amusing: The guy who required oxygen assist, was asleep when the power went out, and died 15 minutes later. |
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