The Amish will probably be in pretty good shape...
Posted on 10/05/2022 7:23:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai
You can run vehicles and generators off of a wide range of burnable waste materials by using a gasifier.
With EV, the best you can hope for is a solar panel and a sunny day.
Oh Mayor Pete, how are you going to run all those emergency generators and power tools if the electrical grid is down? Batteries aren’t going to do the job.
Complete fool. Anything it says should be completely discounted from hereon.
Car & Driver Tested: How Towing Affects Electric Pickups—Hummer EV, Rivian R1T, and Ford F-150 Lightning
… a full battery will take you a mere 100 miles in the Lightning, 110 miles in the R1T, and 140 miles in the Hummer….
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a40896618/ev-pickups-towing-test-hummer-rivian-lightning/
Yeah. So idiot says that you can use the charge in your EV’s batteries to power your home. That’ll last a few hours and then you’ll have a cold, dark home and an EV that isn’t going anywhere.
The amount of power that you get back from your batteries is less than what you put in.
Freezing in the dark. That’s what this idiot wants for us.
The Amish will probably be in pretty good shape...
Mayor Buttplug just wants to power his sick sex toys.
Butt is dumb.
When I had a power outage during hurricane Irene, I recharged my laptop in my gas guzzling car.
We are ruled be genuine idiots. The stupidest of the stupid are the most powerful with an army of thugs. God help us.
Bear in mind that if the grid is down, most gas stations are down too. Electric power is required to power the pumps that deliver gasoline from underground pumps to the gas pump. And the gas pumps won't be working either.
Well, I know everybody likes to make fun of Buttboy, but let’s look at it objectively.
Let’s take the specific case of this hurricane.
You know it’s coming, you have an electric car and so you make sure it’s fully charged.
The storm comes and power goes out. Your car holds 90kwh of energy (typical nowdays). On average a house uses about 24 kwh per day. That would give you roughly 3 days of power.
Of course that also means your travel is rather restricted. So you’re trading transportation for power in the house.
How does that compare if you had a regular car with a full tank of gas?
A tankful of gas would produce roughly the same amount of electricity with a generator as that battery, so in a sense it’s a wash.
As to whether you have more transportation flexibility depends on how widespread the power outage is and how that affects the gas stations.
In either case it’s not a bad idea to have a generator and a few full gas tanks, or better yet one that runs on natural gas since it’s the least likely source to be affected.
Technical question: Are EV's built to run power back into a home breaker box? During a power outage here, someone showed me how to back-feed a generator into my home circuit (it kept tripping the ground wire, until I cut it)
It is by definition a nuclear strike because setting off an EMP would involve detonating a nuclear weapon over or near the US mainland. Hard to see how that doesn’t result in WWIII.
I thought Butty-Boi was still on maternity or paternity leave with his “partner”. Or husband, or whatever.
“Technical question: Are EV’s built to run power back into a home breaker box?”
I’m sure they could be.
“During a power outage here, someone showed me how to back-feed a generator into my home circuit (it kept tripping the ground wire, until I cut it)”
I have a generator that runs on natural gas (and on gasoline and propane as well) that I connect to my natural gas line so I can run it “forever” and don’t have to mess with smelly gasoline. I connected it to the house through a power switch box which let’s me select the electricity source from either the utility or the generator, with just the push of a switch. When it’s connected to the generator the house runs just like it was connected to the utility. Switching back is as simple as pushing the switch.
No messing with extension cords, breaker boxes, dangerous and smelly gasoline...
Works like a charm
True but a 25 gallon gas tank will last a lot longer than a full battery.
Not all EMP devices are nuclear.
Non-nuclear EMP devices are tiny - they could maybe knock out a single electrical substation but not much more than that.
Not necessarily!
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