Every Monday in March, MVY Radio, in partnership with the Dukes County Health Council and the Coalition to Create the MV Housing Bank will host a series of panel discussions focusing on the housing crisis on Martha’s Vineyard. All sessions will be via Zoom with a Q & A to follow. The lack of affordable […]
i think installations want up the ability to island systems in case of an attack they re not completely down. the sort of resilience question gets to the work you re doing in places without electricity, right? i said this earlier on the show. it s a remarkable thing how much you take electricity for granted and then it when it goes away everything about your life is entirely dependent on it. i guess my question is if you put a solar panel in a village without electricity, what happens if six months from now it breaks or there s a problem with it? it seems like this could be a recipe for this kind of brief period, this brief renaissance and then going back and forth? the solar panel is not likely to break, but what you need to take care of is long-term maintenance with the battery. if you re using batteries to score electricity, there are some applications such as water pumping which do not require batteries. in this case you are pumping it