Posted on 07/20/2023 11:05:07 AM PDT by DallasBiff
If the SHTF and gas/diesel aren’t available, you’re screwed and gonna die anyway. Just accept it.
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LOL! You made me laugh out loud.
Not that you’re wrong. But we all want to cling to hope. Well maybe not all.
BipolarBob, are you depressed?
No, I'm realistic. No gas. No banks. No grocery stores open. No pharmacies (no medicines). Anarchy. Some people want a civil war. Nobody wins in a civil war. Oh sure, one side wins but everybody gets bloodied.
Guess I wasn’t paying close enough attention, I know some people are confusing them with more powerful generators for the home, my neighbor is doing that.
I agree completely.
I’ve thought about it, and I think that the people who romanticize CW2 are off their flippin rocker. All that killing, nothing working, and the streets will most likely be run by localized warlords, and even if you aren’t a target to them, they sure as hell will want you to bow to their power and contribute, because to them if you’re not useful you may as well be dead. The weak, sick, elderly, women, and children will likely not be spared, and what did they do to anyone?
Sorry for the tangent.
I don’t make my purchases for full SHTF contingencies anyway. More for temporary emergencies, because those are much more likely.
Still waiting for that ECAT cold fusion generator that is just around the corner.
Has anyone given any thought to running a diesel generator on a wood burning gasifier type set-up?
“How long will they power two freezers and a refrigerator and what happens as the batteries age and eventually refuse a charge?”
Here’s the deal: For gasoline generators, they (the Globalists), so far, cannot seize them from you. Likewise, they have to let you continue driving your gasoline car(s), so you will also have access to fuel for your gasoline generator.
So, my recommendation is to buy a gasoline generator (which I did recently after hearing here that their days are numbered), and then to buy as many spare parts as reasonable (or a second copy...which I’m considering). The net effect is that we will have at least some power for the rest of our relatively short futures (assuming you’re as old as myself), regardless of what our horrific ‘Sustainable Economy’ forces on us.
“From a friend’s experience with a smaller model, I plunged on a Jackery 1000. I have yet to use it.”
Best to try it out. Jackery has a very good reputation, but I have read some reviews blaming the shipping company for overheating, and thus damaging, their batteries.
If you haven't noticed, the DimWIT idiots playing politicians want to starve the US energy grid. It's only a matter of time before anybody and everybody who is tied to the grid is going to have their power go out in rolling blackouts.
In Texas a couple of years ago, people froze to death when the grid which relied on solar and wind power led to blackouts.
Some have a better idea.
If you can't power your home with 18kw of solar input and 12kw 120/220 vac to your home, you should probably downsize. When the neighbor's power goes down, they will see that my lights are on, my refrigerator and freezer are running and my minisplit heat pumps are cooling/heating as required.
The inverter/solar charger/grid charger (called the all in one) is on the left, the server rack batteries are on the right. Each rack can hold six batteries and depending on your circumstances, even a liberal moron should be able to calculate how many batteries they need to get off grid (or you can stay grid tied if you want to).
The politicians are promising to double the electric rates again AND make power unreliable. Welcome to the Biden/SOROS/WEF third world $hit hole. The payoff with $500/monthly electric bills won't be long even with $1500/battery up front costs.
The second hand solar panel market has significantly reduced that aspect of home electrical power.
My temps have been in the 100s for a while now and today I had to pay my $70.15 electric bill which isn’t bad for an all-electric house.
When I was stationed in Idaho Falls, Idaho as a Navy Officer doing Nuclear Training, I moved into a brand new apartment's that had electric baseboard heaters. I looked out my east bedroom window that faced GRAND TETON, and I knew negative 20 degree cold was coming. I was pleasantly surprised to find my electric bill was only $25/month! Hydro power was reliable and cheap in the northwest.
But in Kalifornia last summer, rolling blackouts were real and they always suck when they come at the hottest part of the day. Those same warnings are NOT making the national news like last summer so maybe the idiot politicians figured out they can't show the future shortages quite yet.
One consideration is that even if the electric costs are not yet significant, for MOST they will be in the near future. And even if the electric rates are cheap, Biden and his DimWIT idiots are doing all they can to make the grid unreliable.
As I am a Florida resident (now on the road in an RV out west), I have sat many nights in temporary lighting waiting for the grid to come back. The RV now has a 48 vdc system that supplements the 12 vdc and makes the it unnecessary to run the generator when I sit on the side of Mt Ranier, for example. Out west free to almost free camping at breathless spots is available to those who can exist without the grid.
I don’t know what is going on with my bill but I’m hoping it is a sluggish meter or something, even I think that 70 dollars is plenty acceptable while running A/C.
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