How are you dealing with the extremely cold weather?
I think this would fit nicely here :)
How are you dealing with the extremely cold weather?
How are you dealing with the extremely cold weather?
Here my house is all electic, but I off-set the bill, by utilizing the fire place, buck-stove and dutch oven. By spending my free time in the summer months using chain-saw, log-splitter and axe/mall...I perpare for winter. Finding free coal in the appalachian mountains is fairly easy .. since my area is encompass by abandened railroad tracks and coal mines. Without electric power, the computer will stop working.. but I will stay warm, eat good food, drink and smoke whatever, ..pleases me. I have a Kenwood R-1000 SW radio, also a made in China, BAOFENG UV-5R hand unit. My porjects that are still in the works are Solar panels and larger aray of battery banks.. 6V and 12V.
What area do you live in, if you don't mind me asking? God that'd be
an awesome set of resources to have. I've also thought about a
driveway (gravel road). If any of you guys ever visit this part of West Virginia. That's where I live ;)
you know... if i can deal with the totaly exaggerated entry paperwork
for the US i will visit your place. i know on the frontdoor with
original german beer ;)
in germany most of the people are not heating with electric. most uses natural gas, teleheating and the cool oldschool way like skuz it does
with wood-fired heating.
so if a power outage happend, the most people kept her warm ass :)
and there's a another point i can't explain by myself. may be some of
you guys can explain me, why the hell the most powerlines in the US are unearthly and not in the ground, under the street?
it's on every heavy-weather event that the powerlines cuts down, the transformators gets damaged and by strom winds the powerlines lie on the streets and be a safety hazard for people.
as i grow up i lived in a very small village (300 lifes including all cows*g) and we also had the powerlines hanging in the air from house to house. but in the mid 80s (i feel so old everytime i write this) they bring the lines under the streets. and i guess in very big cities like newyork the powerlines are also under the ground.
but germany is facing also a power blackout on the next solar eclips on march the 20th. in germany at a sunny day we produce about 400MW in a minute with the sun. the powernet will be lost and raise up a big amount of power in this time. and the electric companies are informed via media that many customers had to deal with a blackout. and we can't buy some power from our neighbours, well they also had the same problem. my bbs
had a power-emergency-system also all telephone hubs, and cellphone radiotowers in germany had this too. so the bbs maybe still working at this time.
it could be a good idea to calculate the complete power-usage of all the bbs-stuff and plug a fat solarpanel on the top of my garage :)
and skuz is a lucky man he can walk around and find coal! all i found
are mushrooms and couples having sex in the woods X.x also a kind of warming up :P
it could be a good idea to calculate the complete power-usage of all the bbs-stuff and plug a fat solarpanel on the top of my garage :)
and skuz is a lucky man he can walk around and find coal! all i found are mushrooms and couples having sex in the woods X.x also a kind of warming up :P
*laugh* Okay well I'm totally jumping into a discussion that doesn't have to do with me, I hope you don't mind. I wouldn't underestimate
that paperwork, though. Trying to get my fiancee through immigration
was so hard that it ended up splitting up our engagement.
Ansbach was different, as was Petersaurach. I got pretty fond of the tiny little electric water-heater that would exist in each apartment,
that would keep a small (maybe 10G, not sure in L) amount of water hot enough so that it could power a full shower, load of clothes, or
whatever. Seems a lot more efficient than the huge ones that we have
That has been of great quandery to me, as well. I'm not sure, but it probably has something to do with the original schematics that J.P.
Morgan drew up when he was first laying the power grid with Edison's
help. I could just totally be pulling that out of my ass, though. It
Some larger city areas have the power grid down beneath, along with
the sewer equipment and everything, but it's very true, most of the non-ultra-urban areas in the US are blasting EM radiation all over the place with the above-ground lines, transformers, power stations,
boosting stations, etc. It's been awhile since I've had the income to
It's ridiculous, absolutely.
I thought that they had plenty of backups for the grid that were non-solar. I mean I know about the distributed solar grid there, but aren't there nuke plants and/or coal/gas fired plants that can pick up
the load? I'm genuinely curious about this.
what I'll do. If I'm roaming around in the PacNW here, I'll have to
have other backups, too. Solar is not viable a lot of days out of the year in this area.
Took the words right out of my mouth. My main mission for this system
Mushrooms are good!
But yes, good things to think about and take into account, fu. You can also fab a exersise bike with an junk-yard car alternator.. and get you kids to use the peddle power to re-charge the batteries banks, when
there is no solar sunshine ;)
Speaking of mushrooms, I was once shot at..by a anger farmer for traspassing into the field of cows.. looking for mushrooms growing on
your welcome, we both live in free nations, using the free internet under the eyes of NSA,BND and other funny hackers :P
and sorry for the fiancee immigration case...
yes and no :) mostly you can find devices hanging on the wall. this devices are going to heat the water if you need it. instand warm-water if you will. you are not running out of hot water on those devices. but they are another kind of warm-water-device that you can drop below your sink. it's the small version of this drama-big-drums-heater in your basement. it's hold up to 5 liter warm if you need it to wash your dishes or whatever. but this device needs power all the time not only if you need hot water. that device on the wall is called "durchlauferhitzer" and can possible translatet be "on the fly/flow waterheater" this kind needs more power. it's usualy connected to the highpower line (400Volts i guess). the stove and the durchlauferhitzer needs this highpower-line. all other devices like computer, tv, lights using the lowpower line on 230Volts. i don't know the power-stuff in the US. do you have also two connection-types of power?
this device can powered with electric or with natural gas, which can drop the costs a bit more.
if it's true. tell the electric company to go a step into the future :P
hmm..*gg maybe after the war - where bombs are destroid nearly all villages and cities it was cheap to drag the powerline under the earth... holes where enough there :)
and no one can tell me, that decades of repairing of the crappy system is cheaper as to bury the stuff on time under the soil. especially if you calculate with human lives in areas with serious weather...
it's not a problem with the backup it's a problem about to handle the loss of this mass of energie and how to offset the blast if the solar-plants are power back into the powernetwork. as exaple if you have a default lamp burning on powerboard with a hoover and you swith the hoover on, the light starts shortly to flicker. imagine this in a very very big amout of power. also if you turn off the vac the lights could shine a bit brighter for a moment. you can't blast away all fuse in the power-network :) that's the problem on this day. but we'll see what happend if the solar eclipse occured.
for camping reasons you can buy in germany fuel cells. most of the modern campervans had on installed. its a great way to create power. but the aboriginal costs are not insignifficant.
what also means you understand my stuff - good to know :)
Took the words right out of my mouth. My main mission for this
system
the sweets kind not the hallucinations kind ;)
Interesting. I wasn't aware of all of the different types. God I miss German engineering.
We have two different connections also, in most places I've been, yes.
What kind of fuel cells? Are you talking solar banks? I remember seeing mats for solar banks; I almost picked one up for the beautiful
BMW that I had while I was over there. I think it was just for battery charging, though...
i watch some series like the flash, arrow, the newsroom (quiet good as hell!) scropion and some other stuff in the original language and there is much influence of germany if they talking about hightech products or solid constrution. like "you can drive through the wall they had german steel in it" hmm i'm sure the US-steel is also a good obstacle to drive with a car through the wall. and it's a bit hard to imagine that our engineering is not setup to efficiency. you shot mans to the moon! (with a german rocket-engineer... i think i got now) we have the ideas and you build it big enough that it'll work and impress the world*g
good to know, it's very nice to exchange some knownledge between continents. why the hell tom jennings have never got a nobel prize for the invention of the fidonet? yeah, ok... i'm drifting away :)
a fuel cell (in german brennstoffzelle) is a chemical reaction device
what produced electric power. basicly it works with H2, and O2. the
anode is H2 and the cathode is O2 splittet by electrolyte (ions
+powered). works like a lead-car-battery.
the reaction of hydrogen (it can also be methane or methyl alcohol) and oxygen (from the air no liquid or cleaned oxygen) produced with help of the electrolyte membrane up to 1volt.
in finished deviced more fuel cells are switched together so that you
have 12volt and can use a inverter to gain the power up to 230volt if needed.
the company EFOY sell this kind of fuel cell device where you can just
put a default powerplug into it and the light is burning or the coffee
is boiling.
the best on it: NO exhaust that will kill you :) emissions free.
the efoy comfort fuel cell can reach up to 105 watt (210 Ah a day) rund from -20 till +40 degree (C) you can plug 12V batteries on it and from there you can use a inverter and power all your stuff you need. with 0.9 liter per KWH you can run the fuelcell 24h a days with just 2 liter
fuel. one 10Liter fuelcan (about 35euros). but it is just methyl alcohol in the fuelcans. there are a few other ways to earn this fluid ;) you
have not to buy it from efoy..
http://www.efoy-comfort.com/technical-data
have a look :)
and i think it's a matter of size. same solar panels earn up to 60% on
a cloudy day. but without a right sized battery you can't use the solarpower all the day.
*laugh* What about Al Gore inventing the intertubes?
Yep. I can't believe these are widespread, but here they're still talking about the 'dangers' of hydrogen power cells. Mainstream propaganda, I mean media, here is ridiculous.
I need these, por dios. I'm going to end up ordering some from
Germany if I can't find any stateside. Hell, the German ones are almost
Nice. I am dripping with jealousy. You already have some of these cells, or are just planning on getting some?
I can imagine a hell of a lot of applications for this. I know of
some ways to make methyl, also. Thank you for all of the information on this, it is extremely interesting to me, and hopefully valuable in the future.
Was a hell of an interesting guy. Drives transport 5 months in the winter and farms / plays with batteries in the summer (as he says).
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