The “@Home” supplement to the September 29th, 2007 Seattle Post Intelligencer contained this article
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/athome/333242_backuppower29.html
about setting up a solar-fed battery system as a backup to municipal power in the event an emergency — like the windstorms that deprived thousands of Seattle-area homes of power for several days last year.
Doesn’t this also make sense in the U.S. [...]

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