Good morning world.
Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home, in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.
We got 3 different weather warnings right now.
High winds. We are expecting winds gusting over 90 kph today.
Rain fall. We could be getting in excess of 40 mm of rain.
Storm Surge. That would be over land flooding.
Tonya wants the Big Guy to get a generator for the house.
With all the power lines that are getting replaced, soon enough, all the trees will be cut down and all the powers lines will be new.
Having said that, if the Big Guy gets his way, when he gets his new vehicle, it will be a battery electric vehicle. Or a BEV.
Those vehicles will create what's known as a virtual power plant. They can charge at night, when the power rates are cheaper, but they can also put power back onto the grid during high demand.
Normally, the power meter runs in reverse. You can set how much power you want to provide back to the grid. But you also get paid for doing this.
Then, when you know you got a storm coming up, you turn the virtual power plant off on the vehicle, keeping the power to yourself in the vehicle.
Then, once the storm knocks out the power, your vehicle and power the house.
As long as internet hasn't gone down, you can still work from home.
You set how much you want to hold in reserve, so that you can disconnect the vehicle, go find a charging station, come back, plug back into the house to continue providing power to the home.
This is all very fancy and what not.
This all has upfront costs.
Nothing good is cheap.
Just as long as I get my kibble, the Big Guy can do what ever it is he wants.
Your blast from the past
Your daily video - Max our Bernese Mountain Dog wags the tree
Bye bye fur now
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