Puerto Rico is getting help from people in Germany and companies like Tesla, in the rebuilding of their infrastructure. The top priority on the island is getting their emergency infrastructures up and running. High on that list are places like the Hospital del Nino in the capital of San Juan.
A children's hospital in Puerto Rico that was forced to run off generators and ration diesel fuel in the wake of Hurricane Maria now has a solar power system that will supply all of its electricity needs.
Tesla and Puerto Rico's governor touted the project yesterday, sending out multiple official tweets and Facebook posts, and officials said today that the system is already providing solar-generated electricity to the hospital.
You can see the solar project in a series of photos Tesla sent out on social media.
The Los Angeles Times has a breakdown of how quickly this came together, starting with a social media conversation between Gov. Ricardo Rossello and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
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Rossello and Musk began public discussions on Oct. 6, when the governor tweeted at the entrepreneur and suggested that Puerto Rico could be a “flagship project” to “show the world the power and scalability” of Tesla’s technologies.
Musk responded that day, saying he would be “happy to talk” and that he hoped Tesla could be helpful.
On Tuesday — less than three weeks after their social media rapport began — Tesla tweeted that the project was “going live.”
So while Trump and his crew of wealthy wanna-be oligarchs sat around trying to figure out how best to divide of the money pie in Puerto Rico, the rest of humanity tries to help the humans living in Puerto Rico.