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To: editor-surveyor

That’s not the type of batteries the poster was referring to nor was there any mention of a solar system with the batteries.

It was just batteries. The kind of batteries you would pick up at Wally World while you are waiting to check out.

Believe it or not, very few people actually have a “solar system” or any other “alternate energy source” to run all their electrical gadgets on so their life would be just as normal after the electricity went off as it was before.

Even a stand-by gen. has it’s limitations, even a whole house system, because sooner or later you run out of fuel.

Now before some idiot wants to tell me “their” system is connected to the city gas line so they wont run out of fuel, surprise, that gas service would shut down.


214 posted on 04/05/2013 10:47:28 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: IMR 4350
In 1989, FEMA put out a publication about wood gasifiers that can run internal combustion engines.

I've built one. They work.

/johnny

230 posted on 04/05/2013 11:05:57 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: IMR 4350

Batteries can also be maintained by an inverter/charger, much like a live aboard boat. Many people that work at home with computers have such systems that can run for a day or two.


291 posted on 04/05/2013 11:52:17 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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