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To: familyop

stove, refrigerator, water heater, dryer, and backup generator.


23 posted on 03/31/2014 8:14:46 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

That’ll probably work really well for more than a couple of years. There are less expensive ways over time, but they’re also more labor-intensive, sometimes more costly to build and less convenient over time (PV solar refrigeration, clothes drying shelters, various mass heaters like masonry heaters or rocket mass heaters, wood-fired or solar water heating and so on). Many of the less expensive solutions can also be problematic in regards to codes and insurance in some areas.

Looks like your plan is a great one. Here, we have different conditions—a climate sometimes too cold for propane to produce enough gas pressure for a generator (pressure too low even from big tanks in winter) but dry and sunny enough to make a few other things work a little better.

Heating is a tough problem here. Saw a low of -39, F, one night in the winter of 2012-2013. A small house here can gobble a thousand gallons of propane for heaters within six months, and without any powerlines nearby (PV solar electricity needed), furnace blowers aren’t feasible. So you chose a great place.


24 posted on 04/01/2014 1:16:02 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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