I'm fortunate that my heater is gas powered and I have a gas generator to run the electric motor. But I also have an electric fireplace to keep my living space a little warmer.
Yep, that's one thing a lot of people overlook. They think "oh I have natural gas heat" and don't realize until they lose power that the furnace still needs 110v power to operate.
And of course when it happens you can't find a generator on the store shelves to save your life, it's not a fun lesson to learn the hard way.
I recommend a heavy-duty clean sine inverter you can hook to the car to run the furnace. More likely to be working than a backup generator you never get around to running/servicing with stale gas inside.
Ironically: Solar and wind, or water and a bank of 12V batteries is more likely to give you some electrical options in an extended SHTF situation if fuel infrastructure starts to go. Some emergency water filtration ability ... WATER is key.. The alternate ability to burn wood/stove could be useful.
Keep a full tank of fuel in winter, and if you have the space 100gallons of diesel, 100lbs propane,etc will give you more options than 97% of the population.
I think the starving to death situation is less likely than most people give it mindshare. 6 months of pasta. rice, cereals, dry legumes and vitamin C for your family basically fits in a large suitcase. If you can heat and hydrate you won't starve.
Sheltering in place is better choice for 90% of the people(hurricanes excepted). Trying to run away somewhere is generally riskier than finding what you can do with what you have there. You know your neighborhood/locale and known is better than unknown usually.
I like the idea of HAM radio/Packet Radio and even as StarLink capability backup. You'll be harder to shut off and isolate, although realistically at that point the imperial stormtroopers have already entered the base.
After an ice storm in 1992, my father had a 10,000 watt generator installed because of the difficulty using a battery and inverter for my mother's medical equipment (early bi-pap.)
As an Instrument Engineer, he had multiple redundancies built into the system. It is primarily Natural Gas with a gasoline backup. It's an electric start with a pull chord backup. And it has an industrial switch so it's impossible to back-feed the electric line.
It has worked well through numerous Hurricanes and local outages. It's so nice to have this legacy built into my home.
Yes,
But what if you have an electric car?
You're running your car battery down so you can power your furnace motor.
How the l-l€LL do you recharge your car battery?
Who's retarded idea is it to have electric cars?
I have an electric car. Theoretically I could use my diesel to charge it and get more miles net. Although in a real emergency, I would just take the Diesel or gas car.
I'm fortunate that my heater is gas powered and I have a gas generator to run the electric motor. But I also have an electric fireplace to keep my living space a little warmer.
Yep, that's one thing a lot of people overlook. They think "oh I have natural gas heat" and don't realize until they lose power that the furnace still needs 110v power to operate.
And of course when it happens you can't find a generator on the store shelves to save your life, it's not a fun lesson to learn the hard way.
I recommend a heavy-duty clean sine inverter you can hook to the car to run the furnace. More likely to be working than a backup generator you never get around to running/servicing with stale gas inside.
Ironically: Solar and wind, or water and a bank of 12V batteries is more likely to give you some electrical options in an extended SHTF situation if fuel infrastructure starts to go. Some emergency water filtration ability ... WATER is key.. The alternate ability to burn wood/stove could be useful.
Keep a full tank of fuel in winter, and if you have the space 100gallons of diesel, 100lbs propane,etc will give you more options than 97% of the population.
I think the starving to death situation is less likely than most people give it mindshare. 6 months of pasta. rice, cereals, dry legumes and vitamin C for your family basically fits in a large suitcase. If you can heat and hydrate you won't starve.
Sheltering in place is better choice for 90% of the people(hurricanes excepted). Trying to run away somewhere is generally riskier than finding what you can do with what you have there. You know your neighborhood/locale and known is better than unknown usually.
I like the idea of HAM radio/Packet Radio and even as StarLink capability backup. You'll be harder to shut off and isolate, although realistically at that point the imperial stormtroopers have already entered the base.
After an ice storm in 1992, my father had a 10,000 watt generator installed because of the difficulty using a battery and inverter for my mother's medical equipment (early bi-pap.)
As an Instrument Engineer, he had multiple redundancies built into the system. It is primarily Natural Gas with a gasoline backup. It's an electric start with a pull chord backup. And it has an industrial switch so it's impossible to back-feed the electric line.
It has worked well through numerous Hurricanes and local outages. It's so nice to have this legacy built into my home.
Yes,
But what if you have an electric car?
You're running your car battery down so you can power your furnace motor.
How the l-l€LL do you recharge your car battery?
Who's retarded idea is it to have electric cars?
I have an electric car. Theoretically I could use my diesel to charge it and get more miles net. Although in a real emergency, I would just take the Diesel or gas car.
All-electric would be a SOL situation. Lol