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To: MsLady

You’re not going to provide yourself all the electricity you’d like if TSHTF.

You NEED power for pumping, communication, and circulating the heat from the stoves.

A small solar power kit would be worth it for the few days of sun and no wind. Size it just for your pump.

Battery storage is neccessary- but the cost is worth it for your windmills anyway.

You won’t have enough elect. for food storage and heat/cooling. Make other plans (you sound like you’d already have a ‘root cellar’. You might consider the luxury of a freezer in the root cellar- elect or gas- but that’s probably asking a lot.

A tile stove is is much better than wood stoves. If you have a local mason with any knoiwledge of fireplaces you could save your backs a lot of chopping and carrying.
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/12/tile-stoves.html


51 posted on 02/08/2011 8:54:10 AM PST by mrsmith
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To: mrsmith

That’s what I was thinking, just enough to power the water pump would be great. My hubby wants to use it to store power in the battery back up that he wants to get up and running. With batteries from my brother in laws junk yard. He just got 25 from the state police station we can get dirty cheap. We just need a good converter.


56 posted on 02/08/2011 9:03:37 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: mrsmith

I have a walk out freezer from late nov. till early march...lol It’s my front porch.


58 posted on 02/08/2011 9:05:13 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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