Posted on 07/09/2022 2:18:46 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
“Didn’t they outlaw wood burning stoves in Ca?”
This is Germany.
Easy solution. Quit being stupid, take the gas what Russia is selling and pay them in Rubles and stay out of their affairs. Russia will get Ukraine one way or another and I don’t think they have any intentions to get anything else. But from what it looks like the West has made up their minds to keep the conflict going come hell and high water even if it may lead to a major confrontation or conflict.
100% caused by Barak Obiden.
Burning books and cash that is worthless is a German tradition. But yeah. I doubt they have many of those things these days. I hear lithium batteries burn a long while. I wonder if there Is a YOUTUBE video on how to convert that to btus.
Donald Trump was RIGHT.
Yep on certain days
I lived in south of Stuttgart, Germany for four years. Every house in my village had a functioning stove/fireplace & chimney. A big portion of German homes use fuel oil, not natural gas, which will be expansive, but available.
My primary source of heat were radiators from a furnace with a 7000 liter fuel tank in my basement (fill it about every 18 months). We supplemented it with a wood stove. It took a while to heat up the house, but once it was going, you turned down the radiators.
Once, I got impatient and overloaded the stove with wood. I had the living room at 85F and was sweating with snow outside. It took forever for the temp to get down to a more reasonable 72F.
I have a studio apartment and thought a wood stove would work here. However even thought of a tent woodstove for a temporary fix if things get bad.
Current temp at my back porch is 106f. 104 officially in San Antonio. Humidity is unbearable.
I really miss Alaska.
Burning books and cash that is worthless is a German tradition. But yeah. I doubt they have many of those things these days. I hear lithium batteries burn a long while. I wonder if there Is a YOUTUBE video on how to convert that to btus.
But every german panic buying a wood stove should quickly look at this https://youtu.be/ZQ9BsCrT21M to see how to make a propane tank wood stove. I am assuming they have propane tanks that have no gas in them....
Studio apt? You just need a few candles and a blanket to keep warm. Maybe a dog
It's still in the boxes/unpacked today he said.
It’s even worse.
If you have a wood burning stove or fireplace, you have to have a specific Particle Filter System installed. If you don’t have this, your are not allowed to burn wood.
I’m not sure if it’s another Eco- bs law in all of Germany or just in specific states (Bundesländer).
A friend of mine built a house and intended to heat it with a wood stove—a German-style stove. It wasn’t anything at all like what I think of when I think ‘wood stove’. It was tall and covered in thick ceramic tile. It was a pretty thing. The idea was the tile would radiate the heat into the room. The thing did a fine job of keeping the large house warm.
You can see them in movies set in central Europe, they look like an odd bit of furniture tucked into a corner.
Those are eaSy to build. And generate a bunch of heat with just sticks. Did they forget how to keep warm? Fire is an essential right
Yes! So is oil... If we’re to believe it comes from fossils.
Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the party is beneath the dignity of any man, and the party was right: One man desperate for a bit of fuel is pathetic. Five million people desperate for fuel will destroy a city. That was the first time I ever saw my brother. But I knew him. And I knew that I would disobey the party. Perhaps it was the tie of blood between us, but I doubt it. We were only half tied anyway, and brothers will betray a brother. Indeed, as a policeman, I would say, get hold of a man's brother and you're halfway home. Nor was it admiration for a better man than me. I did admire him, but I didn't think he was a better man. Besides, I've executed better men than me with a small pistol. I told them who I was: The old man was hostile, the girl cautious, my brother... seemed very pleased. I think the girl was only one who guessed at their position.
Your story about living in a village near Stuttgart caused me to wonder how the Germans are handling all the former US base housing they took over when the Cold War ended. As I recall, the housing where my wife and I lived was fed steam from a central heating plant in the housing area. I don’t know what fueled the steam plant, though. I recall it being the same on post and in the barracks there.
Yup. Ancient forests.
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