Solar-powered town takes direct hit from Hurricane Ian, never loses electricity

Solar-powered town takes direct hit from Hurricane Ian, never loses electricity | 60 Minutes

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Жыл бұрын

No one at Babcock Ranch lost power when Hurricane Ian struck. Syd Kitson tells Bill Whitaker there was a lot of water around the massive solar array of 700,000 panels, but they all remained in place throughout Ian’s 150 mph winds. cbsn.ws/3rFqxpJ
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@Anonymous-pm7jf Жыл бұрын

Utility companies just left the chat.

@E-stylz-1967 Жыл бұрын

FPL is the utility company that installed the solar panels. They didn't do that for nothing.

@pollytiks3885 Жыл бұрын

Having little or no damage to the solar panels is testament to this type of energy sustainability.

@joebachmann7757 Жыл бұрын

Good thing there's no hailstorms in Florida. One bad hailstorm could completely destroy that solar farm.

@lear60man Жыл бұрын

If you live in the southern hemisphere...and dont mind living in a swamp 1 hour away from the nearest city.

@E-stylz-1967 Жыл бұрын

@@lear60man one hour? You obviously don't know what your talking about.

@mpless7062 Жыл бұрын

@remy7448 Жыл бұрын

Smart engineering 👌🏼

@patriciaburke2401 Жыл бұрын

Amazing, hope your work inspires every builder to make much needed changes.

@Hail_Sagan Жыл бұрын

Glad everyone is ok there and I'm a huge fan of solar, but Babcock Ranch did not take a direct hit from Ian. Babcock is well inland and did not get the full brunt of the storm. There were a lot of residents in Fort Myers, well west of i-75 who didn't lose power either.

@FrozenSolidM5 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, someone said it. Babcock is nowhere close to where the storm came in. They were on the right side of the storm yes, but far enough out to not be majorly effected. They built is where they did for this reason.

@erichagan7153 Жыл бұрын

Typical media propaganda piece.

@AndogaSpock Жыл бұрын

This is the best real estate promotion video I have seen ever.

@sobeit1166 Жыл бұрын

No kidding and done right after a major disaster.

@jasm5205 Жыл бұрын

Honestly bravo. That’s a pretty amazing thing he did.

@tioswift3676 Жыл бұрын

Hmmmm I wonder WHY? Maybe because this areas didn’t take the hit of the storm like others did? Babcock ranch was on the outer rim of the storm. Look at this area vs direct hit areas…BIG difference. They would have had every single panel ripped off these houses if it were a direct hit, and these people would ALL be without power.

@ms.andrea172 10 ай бұрын

Not true at all. They are not shingles! They are installed completely differently.

@cosmiclouie1 Жыл бұрын

Excellent follow up on the Babcock Ranch project, it looks like the climate resilient design passed its first major test!

@skeeterbodeen8326 Жыл бұрын

All I can say, Its about flippin time we've put our Intellect to work for an achievable reality...

@thomasansley539 Жыл бұрын

I don't know why they're making it sound like it was such a hard hit for that area if you look at where Ian went and where they are on the map, they got the outskirts of the storm and are trying to say that they got a hit from a cat 4 " on the worst side of the eye wall!", not even close... it was probably cat 1 winds at best with no flooding. #fortmyersstrong.

@nancygreen8186 Жыл бұрын

Yeah what are deceiving video

@Longenecker1776 Жыл бұрын

They didn’t take a direct hit. 15 yard penalty on 60 minutes for stretching and bending the truth.

@av8rshane491 Жыл бұрын

Look at the palm trees, not even torn up. If they took a direct hit with 150 mph winds there wouldn’t look like that. Glad they didn’t have much damage. Come on 60 min.

@michaelharris8354 Жыл бұрын

If you look it up, this area only got hit by 100mph max winds. They’re definitely stretching the truth a lot. As a person who grew up in hurricanes every year, the second I saw the palm trees and the guy saying it was video from the worst of it, I started chuckling. That’s hardly even a storm. I’ve been in buildings that were being separated from their foundations before.

@av8rshane491 Жыл бұрын

It’s not that I think they did a bad job on the project just don’t try to bs the public.

@michaelharris8354 Жыл бұрын

@@av8rshane491 that’s their thing though. The bs feeds the agenda and most guppies buy into it.

@azambresonia5056 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing. Interesting video.

@deborahriley1166 Жыл бұрын

Yes!!! Excellent foresight 🙏💟🙏💟🙏

@hnttakata713 Жыл бұрын

Electric vehicles, above sea level is the key here. Brilliant.

@floridachickstinyadventures Жыл бұрын

⚠️ATTENTION!! If they were grid tied then they were without power. Anyone who had solar on their homes from FPL that were grid tied had absolutely no power while power lines were down. Now someone like myself who did her own solar and it was not grid tied ,had power!

@thepuckstopper67 Жыл бұрын

Depends. Many systems can be grid tied but can island themselves in a microgrid in the event of an outage, usually with battery backup to supplement. That's how mine works

@FrozenSolidM5 Жыл бұрын

Biggest issue I have with this, you lied and said you took a direct hit from Ian. Babcock is NOWHERE close to where Ian came in at all. You took a skirting from the storm and might have had winds a little stronger then a afternoon thunder storm. This story give people a false sense of security to be honest

@sarahansley4601 Жыл бұрын

While I think the concept and execution of this solar town are great, it's completely unfair for them to pretend that they got hit with the same level of storm as Fort Myers Beach, Sanibel, Pine Island, Fort Myers or Cape Coral. As someone who survived through the actual 150-170 mph wind gusts here in Cape Coral, that video footage of the storm that they sustained was nothing compared to the hit that this area took. Had they actually taken that sort of a hit that they're claiming they did, I promise you that place would have been wrecked just like everywhere else. As I said, I think the concept is great. Good for them! However, anyone who has to lie in order to lift themselves up above the rest doesn't really deserve our admiration.

@Benglator1 Жыл бұрын

Dont believe all that is told in this story. Ian worst part of the eyewall was on the northwest not the east. So this place did not take the hardest hit that it could have seen. Also there is more to the solar field then what they report as well. That power goes straight to FPL(our power plant on the river) and they in turn send power back to the community from the power plant via underground power cables within the community. FP&L leases that land from Babcock and as part of the deal, FP&L must keep the power on in that community or restore it as fast as possible. There is more that can be said about this but they are trying to hype this into something it is not. Yes I live down here and yes I have friends who live there.

@growtopiajaw Жыл бұрын

good vid

@lizregan1949 Жыл бұрын

Wow and to think we have had this technology for years.

@TOSStarTrek Жыл бұрын

Very much support green energy but right once you add the whole cost of the system they are not cheap. They will get cheaper in time numbers back it up.

@PaulBroekemeier Жыл бұрын

The problem is this dude just made a standard sprawling inefficient suburb and tacked on solar panels and patted himself on the back.

@unvladsale2015 Жыл бұрын

Wow!

@streetbaby9217 Жыл бұрын

We had a great president that wanted us to go solar power 🔋 🤔.

@utilid4lifefigureitout602 Жыл бұрын

Carter or Gore?

@donovandelaney3171 Жыл бұрын

He needs to have the sidewalks and roads be made from waste plastic and add some Sinclair C5 bikes.

@hbgriss Жыл бұрын

Bet desantis hates this place

@DarthSailorMoo Жыл бұрын

They don't call DeSatan the devil for nothing.

@markbaxter4527 Жыл бұрын

Pretty sweet

@tww6488 Жыл бұрын

The river when the other way

@larroyo1973 Жыл бұрын

It's pretty clear they didnt get a direct hit. Even the home video taken during the height of the Storm shows nothing more than a mild tropical storm situation. It's almost like he's ever been through true Category 3 and above hurricane

@MG-jj3pn Жыл бұрын

Wow

@rui569 Жыл бұрын

And is the less expensive electricity. Do we need more arguments to go solar?

@aaronstephens9513 Жыл бұрын

it has nothing to do with being solar.. it has to do with having a brand new modern infastructure....

@CAPRICORNNEA Ай бұрын

It’s an hour from the sea and Punt Gorda didn’t get hit that bad.

@marilynjackson5752 Жыл бұрын

How much did these houses cost? Would the average home owner be able to afford it?

@daveboon5992 Жыл бұрын

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😎😎😎

@PaulBroekemeier Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry, but this isn't "a small sustainable town", it's a masterplan community with solar panels; this guy is just a real estate development grifter. Savannah is closer to what actual sustainable urban planning looks like.

@carmensantana1374 Жыл бұрын

Florida power is the stuff........👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@HotRod16 Жыл бұрын

Now we can comment?

@tjhook911 Жыл бұрын

The island didn’t lose power due to the lines being buried, much like Japan. It had little to do with the fact that the electricity being transmitted was from solar. Let’s be transparent here….

@joeldonnahoo4902 Жыл бұрын

Sure doesn't look like the parts of Florida that actually got hit

@Satans_lil_helper Жыл бұрын

This is why it's important to move away from fossil fuel. Well done!

@utilid4lifefigureitout602 Жыл бұрын

One of a long list of reasons. National Security being a major one. Future Generations having a habitable planet being arguably the most important. No matter how inventive the imaginations of billionaires and the scientists and engineers they employ are/get, this is still the only habitable planet known to humanity.

@curiousworld7912 Жыл бұрын

Even the Dept. of Defense has long realized that moving away from fossil fuels is not only better for the environment in the face of climate change; it's a matter of national security. Energy independence is one sure way of avoiding OPEC's whims, or wars, such as what's happening in Ukraine, from disrupting energy needs. Not to mention; our own wars for 'oil'. Remember when we were told the Iraq War would all but pay for itself, because of their oil? Yeah, that worked out well...

@Satans_lil_helper Жыл бұрын

@@curiousworld7912 We'll be fighting wars over water in the very near future. We have an entire populace willing to ignore it, hoping it will magically go away.

@nickjacobs8507 Жыл бұрын

The mining of rare earth minerals for solar panels takes massive amounts of fossil fuels. You're not very bright.

@PaulBroekemeier Жыл бұрын

This isn't though. Look at how the neighborhood is designed: it's extremely car-centric and would be very difficult to walk from one street to another. He's basically just greenwashing.

@alexmaccity Жыл бұрын

Subjective puff piece.

@alechriso398 Жыл бұрын

Weird how EVERYONE I know that has Solar lost panels resulting in holes in their roof.

@bigvaxmeanie925 Жыл бұрын

Weird how everyone in orlando I know didn't get holes in their roof and solar panels kept them from losing power.

@alechriso398 Жыл бұрын

@@bigvaxmeanie925 that's a few hours north of us so they didn't have the same impact from the storm.

@bigvaxmeanie925 Жыл бұрын

@@alechriso398 half the city lost power Unless you had solar panels

@WhiteGangster400 Жыл бұрын

Dude sounds like he sniffs his own farts and then brags about it.

@susanhunter9196 Жыл бұрын

Bet you gotta have a whole lot of money to live here. Which means, it would be outta reach for the majority of people. Underground utilities need to become the norm everywhere. That might alleviate at least some of the suffering during and, after a natural disaster.

@RiotNrrrdUTube Жыл бұрын

@Susan Hunter I just looked on Zillow and there are houses for sale in Babcock Ranch as low as $400,000. They're cookie-cutter and soulless, but they exist.

@1420625 9 ай бұрын

But the people though…

@hnttakata713 Жыл бұрын

An eco-conscious Florida? Hmmmmm

@timothydaly4136 Жыл бұрын

Lies solor power my bill is $250

@hermanhale9258 Жыл бұрын

All those solar panels for five thousand people. Wants to build to fifty thousand people. Nah. Dumb idea.

@PaulBroekemeier Жыл бұрын

It wouldn't be dumb if America still designed cities like Savannah for instance. Covering the entire state of Florida in masterplan communities and tacking solar panels on top does absolutely nothing to help the climate and environment.

@hermanhale9258 Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBroekemeier What is special about Savannah?

@PaulBroekemeier Жыл бұрын

@@hermanhale9258 Savannah is designed in a way that favors the thing cities are actually made for: people. It has cozy streets with many local businesses and shops.

@hermanhale9258 Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBroekemeier OK, thanks. Some people say we should do like they do in Europe - buses and trains but no cars, if possible.

@lindakluth5611 Жыл бұрын

So it can be done yet they built wrong and all those people died. Or lost everything. All for greed.

@mtlart Жыл бұрын

This has got to boil Desantis' @$$. Keep up the good work, Syd!

@M.Mae.M Жыл бұрын

Makes you wonder why other developers don't follow a similar model, oh yeah, American greed!

@tww6488 Жыл бұрын

Price and biden making it worse

@Ashanti71 Жыл бұрын

HAARP!!

@mohamedel3rby253 Жыл бұрын

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