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Originally Posted by JockoT
From what I have read of the situation, the solar panels survived, but the power from the grid didn't, and that stopped the solar panels from being used.
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Solar panels on top of a modern industrial type building like a hospital may have survived, but if the island was covered with panels on the wonky built standard housing, it wouldn't have survived. So maybe if they rebuild the entire community with modern Florida like codes maybe. But who's paying for that?
To me it make more sense to not put the resources for electric generation in the path of natural disaster. Building nuclear plants on the Japan coastline was a mistake. Building large scale solar panels in the common path of hurricanes is a mistake. So put the nuclear plants and the solar plants out in the desert. Wind plants on the northern plains. We need to power in the grid somewhere, it doesn't have to be local. Putting that generating equipment in the line of fire just seems like asking for it.
Get the power lines underground in PR and then they will be less susceptible to damage. Would have made recovery much quicker. Also they politicized the whole thing. The first contractor was hired and then fired before they even gave them a chance over politics starting the whole process over.