So now I need to have my own cows, generate my own electricity... soon I need to, what, handle sewage, collect rainwater when the utility company cuts my water off, buy an electric car so when gas stations are restricted I can charge my car using the electricity I generate, replace my gas appliances with electric ones and do similar...
Check out "wood gasifier" engines. Relatively simple to make and you can run a car off of wood gas. Farmers used them all the time during WW2 with all of the supply shortages. Pretty neat "old" technology.
Well, wood doesn't come free, and growing trees takes a lot of time.
I'd rather use solar power and climb up on the roof and shovel snow rather than trying to find wood personally (if I don't live in a forested area). I don't know, though.
It's a cost-benefit analysis. With wood, there is a startup cost ($1.4K on the first place I found) that is less than solar panels, but you have to feed it wood (of course you can go find wood, but the question is how long does one tree power your house for? I don't know.). Then, after you cut down all the trees on your land, what are you going to do now? You can't plant more trees because they take hundreds of years to grow, and I kind of want my trees to decorate my property. And buying lumber just isn't worth it.
With solar, there is a significantly larger startup cost ($6K to $20K+ if you want a battery backup, and depending on the size of your system) but you don't have to worry about supplying the system with "stuff" (unless, you know, the sun disappears), you just have to worry about things like snow (so you'll have to shovel, but I think it's less effort than running a wood engine) and worry about it dying, but panels have insanely long (i.e. 25+ year) warranties, and if you DIY it, you'll know how to fix it.
I don't know. When I get a home I will put solar panels on top. Not because I'm for the environment bs, but because I don't want to feed the power company more money, and if the power company starts hating me, I can still have electricity without worry.
I mean, you're also gonna have to worry about home defense (if you're the only one in the entire neighborhood with electricity...) but, I mean, if you're on patriots.win, you likely have this covered
So now I need to have my own cows, generate my own electricity... soon I need to, what, handle sewage, collect rainwater when the utility company cuts my water off, buy an electric car so when gas stations are restricted I can charge my car using the electricity I generate, replace my gas appliances with electric ones and do similar...
so I need to be self-sufficient. Makes sense
Check out "wood gasifier" engines. Relatively simple to make and you can run a car off of wood gas. Farmers used them all the time during WW2 with all of the supply shortages. Pretty neat "old" technology.
Well, wood doesn't come free, and growing trees takes a lot of time.
I'd rather use solar power and climb up on the roof and shovel snow rather than trying to find wood personally (if I don't live in a forested area). I don't know, though.
It's a cost-benefit analysis. With wood, there is a startup cost ($1.4K on the first place I found) that is less than solar panels, but you have to feed it wood (of course you can go find wood, but the question is how long does one tree power your house for? I don't know.). Then, after you cut down all the trees on your land, what are you going to do now? You can't plant more trees because they take hundreds of years to grow, and I kind of want my trees to decorate my property. And buying lumber just isn't worth it.
With solar, there is a significantly larger startup cost ($6K to $20K+ if you want a battery backup, and depending on the size of your system) but you don't have to worry about supplying the system with "stuff" (unless, you know, the sun disappears), you just have to worry about things like snow (so you'll have to shovel, but I think it's less effort than running a wood engine) and worry about it dying, but panels have insanely long (i.e. 25+ year) warranties, and if you DIY it, you'll know how to fix it.
I don't know. When I get a home I will put solar panels on top. Not because I'm for the environment bs, but because I don't want to feed the power company more money, and if the power company starts hating me, I can still have electricity without worry.
I mean, you're also gonna have to worry about home defense (if you're the only one in the entire neighborhood with electricity...) but, I mean, if you're on patriots.win, you likely have this covered