Yes. Those two places are doomed. Along with many more. By 2100, they will be ghost towns. I wish experts would quit soft pedaling this important trajectory we're on.
I lived in the Phoenix area for years, then one June it hit 122F while I was out shopping. I moved out of Arizona a few months later as I came to believe that humans just shouldn't live there.
Az lightening hits transformer in aug 115f plus for a week, also no electric for a week, no backup. We had a pool, short swims twice a day, foiled all windows, house 90f max. Layed on floor in front of security door at night to sleep and no one got sick, life was alright and soon back to air-conditioned normal ahhhhhhhhh😊
Agree though I’d also have 50 kWh of batteries. We had a storm knock out power in winter for ten days last year. Folks with solar and batteries did fine. Folks with only generators ran out of fuel
1:32 “convection ovens” use fan circulated heated air to cook foods quickly. Without forced air conditioning (or a passive cooling system “built it”) residual buildings will be like one big hot stifling attic space in mid summer. Backup “on demand” electrical generators become a necessary life-saving feature of your home. My advice: If you don’t got a backup generator; get one.
Cathy, figure on needing 2 or 3 gallons of fuel per hour, more with a bigger house. Add a gallon per hour just because. L. Figure you’d need at least seven days of backup to be truly prepared. That’s just under 100 gallons of fuel per day, or 700 or so gallons per week. Even if you only burn through 350 gallons in a week, that’s a very impressive tank/bomb to install in your backyard! Your neighbors might not appreciate living next to a potential Hiroshima/national news story. Yes, solar and home storage batteries are expensive, but the new generation of LFP batteries are no longer flammable like the old LI batteries.
You libs are scared of everything. Yes we live in the valley and you have fun getting those generators. If you have an HOA they will have to approve it plus the comment from freeheeler is spot on.
I just think of any city in the southern United States, all the elderly and the ill without air conditioning their toast… Literally. I’m jumping to the next stage of this which is evacuation during the summer in some cities or a very small group of people with guaranteed environmental support because getting caught outside would be fatal after a few hours, would be like the moon everybody wearing space suits. Not a pleasant picture.
If you live in a city in a state like Texas, with a "good ol' boy" power grid--stay prepped, have a bug-out plan, and be ready to implement immediately, if the grid goes down.
People need to prep for extended heat with blackout just like those of us in hurricane prone areas. One of the power efficient fans + portable solar panel + battery & WATER
Go solar and generate your own electricity. Don't depend on the grid. I have been solar only for almost a year now and it works fine. For a $2K - $3K investment you can get 1 to 2 kilowatts which is enough to run AC and everything else if you conserve reasonably.
I would like to see technology develop an air conditioned body suit that ran on battery sources. I would be a miniaturized air conditioner that might be in a small back pack and feed cold air into a jumpsuit that had elasticized cuffs and ankles to keep the cold in. It could be used in a variety of applications for life saving events as well as grid down episodes. I also would like them to come back with ice houses that deliver the big blocks of ice for an ice box, the way they did before electric refrigerators. The ice lasts for a very long time due to it's structure, and no electric is needed in the ice box as it is insulated to keep the cold in. These blocks can be used in a variety of ways from refrigerated food to keeping one room cooler with two or more blocks. I think it would be a product that would be in over demand. Back in the day, they would cut blocks of ice from the lakes and store them in ice houses for use when the temperatures rose, and they would load the blocks on horse drawn wagons to distribute to customers. Who wouldn't buy some blocks of ice in the middle of summer with no electric?
"A lot of this green agenda is being pushed because someone somewhere is making a lot of money from it. Just like in COVID, when of course there was a great redistribution of wealth to the most richest people in the world and the biggest corporations. As well as power being taken away from the likes of you and I." ~Robert Oulds
You mean its real hot in Phoenix? Huh....who would have guessed. Duhhh!! Lets all go buy those electric cars now ok? Ooops....sorry no charge day for me. Its a month with an R in it.
Geeez, Arizonans… if you can afford elaborate vacations, jet skis, Winnebagos, and other luxuries, use the money instead to install solar panels with battery backup. You live in one of the sunniest places on earth! The fusion power plant overhead provides more than enough power to shrug off those blackouts. Even better, trade in your gas guzzler for an electric vehicle with V2L, even V2H, capability. What are you waiting for?
