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Tesla Is Shipping Hundreds of Powerwall Batteries To Puerto Rico (futurism.com)
schwit1 quotes a report from Futurism: In a continued streak of goodwill during this year's devastating hurricane season, Tesla has been shipping hundreds of its Powerwall batteries to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Since the hurricane hit on 20 September, much of the U.S. territory has been left without power -- about 97 percent, as of 27 September -- hampering residents' access to drinkable water, perishable food, and air conditioning. The island's hospitals are struggling to keep generators running as diesel fuel dwindles. Installed by employees in Puerto Rico, Tesla's batteries could be paired with solar panels in order to store electricity for the territory, whose energy grid may need up to six months to be fully repaired. Several power banks have already arrived to the island, and more are en route.
Experts from Germany (Sonnen GmbH) are coordinating and doing install on this project:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
Trump meanwhile did helpfully dedicate a golf trophy in honor of Puerto Rico:
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
In case you didn't know, Puerto Rico is an AMERICAN territory - the people of that territory are American citizens. But our current government for some reason is unwilling/unable to help, and is only much later getting assistance from those who ARE willing/able to help.
Not that I'm just blaming conservatives here - Bill Clinton was the one that signed the bill that removed the tax benefits that attracted a large percent of business to Puerto Rico, leaving their economy 70 billion dollars in debt once it was phased out.
But it DOES take a 'modern conservative' approach to be so completely uncaring/unable to help in this kind of recovery after a disaster.