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KelleyKramer

(8,983 posts) Wed Oct 25, 2017, 10:51 PM Oct 2017

Tesla Uses Solar Panels to Turn Power Back On At Children's Hospital In Puerto Rico

Tesla Turns Power Back On At Children's Hospital In Puerto Rico

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/25/560045944/tesla-turns-power-back-on-at-childrens-hospital-in-puerto-rico?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews

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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Tesla Uses Solar Panels to Turn Power Back On At Children's Hospital In Puerto Rico (Original Post) KelleyKramer Oct 2017 OP

Could this be put on Facebook? raging moderate Oct 2017 #1

Sure, I don't see why not, go for it! KelleyKramer Oct 2017 #3

Just what the doctor ordered. That is a sane doctor with compassion and intelligence. The Wielding Truth Oct 2017 #2

A definite move in the right direction, better that the trumpy contractor who is just going to Thinkingabout Oct 2017 #4

This! So very much. Snarkoleptic Oct 2017 #5

K & R SunSeeker Oct 2017 #6

K&R for a bit of good news! Rhiannon12866 Oct 2017 #7

They are doing better than murielm99 Oct 2017 #8

Yes they sure are KelleyKramer Oct 2017 #13

Fantastic. Hope they bring PR into 21st century enrgy onit2day Oct 2017 #9

Excellent. If they are going to rebuild the Island's grid, why not do it right? Midnight Writer Oct 2017 #10

Of course it wouldn't be good for everybody, you heartless fiend! gratuitous Oct 2017 #11

Maybe Don has invested in Puerto Rico bonds and will handsomely recoup his investment. Midnight Writer Oct 2017 #12

That's Terrific. MineralMan Oct 2017 #14

raging moderate

(4,309 posts)

1. Could this be put on Facebook?

Reply to KelleyKramer (Original post)

Wed Oct 25, 2017, 11:10 PM

Oct 2017

It seems great!

KelleyKramer

(8,983 posts)

3. Sure, I don't see why not, go for it!

Reply to raging moderate (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 25, 2017, 11:18 PM

Oct 2017

The Wielding Truth

(11,415 posts)

2. Just what the doctor ordered. That is a sane doctor with compassion and intelligence.

Reply to KelleyKramer (Original post)

Wed Oct 25, 2017, 11:12 PM

Oct 2017

Elon Musk!

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

4. A definite move in the right direction, better that the trumpy contractor who is just going to

Reply to KelleyKramer (Original post)

Wed Oct 25, 2017, 11:38 PM

Oct 2017

cost lots of money and the same problem in the future again.

Snarkoleptic

(6,002 posts)

5. This! So very much.

Reply to KelleyKramer (Original post)

Wed Oct 25, 2017, 11:43 PM

Oct 2017

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

(51,715 posts)

6. K & R

Reply to KelleyKramer (Original post)

Wed Oct 25, 2017, 11:47 PM

Oct 2017

Rhiannon12866

(206,072 posts)

7. K&R for a bit of good news!

Reply to KelleyKramer (Original post)

Thu Oct 26, 2017, 12:11 AM

Oct 2017

murielm99

(30,764 posts)

8. They are doing better than

Reply to KelleyKramer (Original post)

Thu Oct 26, 2017, 12:11 AM

Oct 2017

Whitefish Energy, trump's big donor and Zinke's good buddies.

KelleyKramer

(8,983 posts)

13. Yes they sure are

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #8)

Thu Oct 26, 2017, 07:30 AM

Oct 2017

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)

9. Fantastic. Hope they bring PR into 21st century enrgy

Reply to KelleyKramer (Original post)

Thu Oct 26, 2017, 12:26 AM

Oct 2017

use with renewables rather than try to fix outdated fossil fuel systems

Midnight Writer

(21,802 posts)

10. Excellent. If they are going to rebuild the Island's grid, why not do it right?

Reply to KelleyKramer (Original post)

Thu Oct 26, 2017, 01:24 AM

Oct 2017

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)

11. Of course it wouldn't be good for everybody, you heartless fiend!

Reply to Midnight Writer (Reply #10)

Thu Oct 26, 2017, 01:33 AM

Oct 2017

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

(21,802 posts)

12. Maybe Don has invested in Puerto Rico bonds and will handsomely recoup his investment.

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #11)

Thu Oct 26, 2017, 02:13 AM

Oct 2017

See, I'm not so heartless. The only thing the obscenely rich will suffer from is loss of bragging rights.

MineralMan

(146,331 posts)

14. That's Terrific.

Reply to KelleyKramer (Original post)

Thu Oct 26, 2017, 09:33 AM

Oct 2017

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.

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