Posted on 11/27/2023 8:13:01 AM PST by bitt
Oh....so glad these yahoos are in place, to issue us ... WARNINGS.
So much for 'assuring effective and efficient reliability and security of the grid'. Mp<
Happy we have a natural gas generator.
An example of those demands is the $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery plant in Kansas.......Is this still in the works considering that some manufacturers are beginning to come to their senses on EVs?
I’ve got plenty of gas for the genset, but my house doesn’t have a fireplace and there’s not a reasonable way to install one.
Buddy heater and lots of propane to the rescue.
Solar panels w battery backup,
2 woodburning fireplaces,
Gas furnace, boiler, and water heaters....
Me too. Changed the oil and spark plug in my Honda generator a couple weeks ago. Checked the air filter, still clean. Plugged in the battery tender about a week ago.
I also wrapped the fruit trees this weekend so the deer don’t eat all the lower branches. Cleaned the gutters. Put up the driveway stakes/markers. Drained the fuel out of the J Deere lawn tractor, put moth balls on and around the engine. Pulled out the battery. It is now on a shelf in the basement.
Bring it on.
FR has been full of fear porn in recent years.
If we black out, we’ll deal; and maybe the dolts who laud and vote for all the ‘green’ stuff will learn a lesson.
You’ve got it handled.
Try that in winter with a foot or two of snow on the ground, pork chop.
“I also am not a fan of fear porn.”
The gaslighting from our own side doesn’t help anything.
Has anyone found the actual NERC report?
To solve this, the Communist left ruling class wants to load up the grid with millions of EV’s.
Policies of sabotage.
Yes...Generac.
Yeh, were heading up there tomorrow to put insulation foam board skirting around it for the winter. And cut some firewood to bring back home for the fireplace. Next winter well be up there permanently in a house with woodstove.
Lived off grid here for 5 years. I’m as ready as anyone.
“We’ve had power go down for over a week in the dead of winter. It’s a hard lesson for the unprepared.”
Ditto here in Hayden Lake. Trees got down on the power lines and power can be out seven to ten days. It’s been a while since it happened.
I don’t trust Avista with their “green” plans. I figure they will foul up their reliability by bowing to the Green God. They were yakking a lot about green a couple years ago when an insane Canadian green company was making a play for them, but that got shot down (thank God).
We’ve got a 26 kW Briggs & Stratton permanently installed on a concrete pad with an automatic transfer switch. Runs on natural gas. Might have to convert it to propane if they succeed in killing gas.
I know what you mean about Hayden Lake. The east side is pretty rugged with a twisty two laner. Beautiful, though.
All I can do.
Suggest a camp stove and stand alone LP heater if wood stove is not practical for you. We now live in the land of sometimes and maybe so plan accordingly.
“”””Buddy heater and lots of propane to the rescue.””””
For those who plan on using their Buddy heater with a 20 pound BBQ tank instead of the 1 pound cans, they should know that they need to use an inline filter or buy the special 10 foot adapter hose to keep from ruining their Buddy Heater.
The regular adapter hoses leech an oil from the hose that gums up the Buddy Heater works, it doesn’t affect grills and open flames but it does the Buddy Heater system which makes it safe for tent and indoor use.
Good to know. I was thinking of buying one.
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