Posted on 05/28/2022 9:29:41 AM PDT by rktman
Amidst the serious and sometimes devastating issues facing our nation today, you'll be glad to know our leaders are focusing on the important stuff.
I refer to the guidelines published by the Department of Energy for helping Americans prepare for blackouts over the summer. Among its routine advice, it offers this jaw-dropping gem: "Have sustainably sourced disposable utensils and dinnerware on hand so you do not need to use water to wash dishes."
I'll admit I blinked in shock when I read this. Sustainably sourced cutlery and dishes? Really? Of all the potential advice for handling blackouts, why did the Department of Energy pick this bizarre example?
Blackouts are horrible events. They leave all vital and non-vital resources and services high and dry. Health care, refrigeration in stores and restaurants, water supplies, transportation, communication, industry – it all ceases (or you must scramble for alternatives). Fatalities skyrocket – fires (from candles and oil lamps), carbon monoxide poisoning, pedestrian accidents, etc. And of course, the criminal element will always take advantage of situations in which law enforcement is overwhelmed and security features are disabled.
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Bkmk/rocket stove
Hey, you got the same 3.83” total the rest of us got since October....
Thanks!
That’s gonna last a while. 😃
So, instead of washing a few dishes, they want you to use greenie-weenie disposables that have to be replaced every time they’ve been used? Does that idiot Granholm know these things come via diesel-burning trucks?
They were originally designed for third world places that don't have a lot of fuel and to help alleviate indoor smoke. That ring around the pot helps make the heat scrape up the sides of the pot. Some are designed with a recess that fits the pot so it sits down half way inside which results in the same thing.
A lot of people make their own and 20 years ago, you had to make one yourself but there are tons of pre-made ones these days.
Would love an off grid answer to having 2 oxygen concentrators running 24/7. Have a generator, but that will run out of fuel. My wife, if off o2 more than 5 minutes finds her O2 saturation fall into the 70’s. Heart and brain cells start struggling and dying when hypoxemia causes levels below 90% saturation. Rolling purposeful blackouts can literally become murder. I’d be gunning for the folks turning off the power on purpose if I lose a loved one to their recklessness of not ensuring adequate backup supply.
Check to see how many watts or amps they’re rated at and get back to me.
It’s, what, rained 3 days here the past year?
I have a generator, air compressor and sandblaster tools. My pots and dishes will be clean.
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A small solar charger can help keep cellphones and other small devices charged. You can also get rechargeable batteries that have the same USB port as a lot of cellphones, eliminating the need for a separate charger.
If you decide to stock up on candles, I recommend finding candle holders that protect the flame without interfering with airflow. That will cut way down on the risk of starting a fire.
Somewhere, I even have a candle holder made out of a soup can, that was made so a steel mug could sit on top. It’s not much, but it’s enough to heat up a cup of soup or boil a cup of water. I used it when camping sometimes, because I could cook inside the tent when it was too rainy to cook outside.
Probably better to have an anti-green gas generator and fuel and ample guns and ammo than woke sustainable cutlery and dishes.
There is some highly placed stupid in that organization.
What is this marvelous Green Energy source politicians drool about but no one is able to tell us what it is.
I am quite sure that sooner or later the day will come when society can take advantage of Nuclear Fusion power, but until then we will have to rely on conventional sources like oil, coal, hydro electric as well as regular Nuclear power plants which depend on fission and not fusion.
Needless to say, wind turbines as well as solar panels add a nice touch and provide some additional sources of energy but it never can come up with the amount of power a growing society needs. I am still waiting for someone to come up and tell us what this mysterious energy source is going to be as we are supposed to GO GREEN and supposedly will replace all the carbon based resources we are using currently, as well as regular convectional nuclear power.
If by chance they are thinking about nuclear fusion as state earlier, sooner or later we most likely will have it but it will be quite a few more years down the road before we can take advantage of such properly functioning power plants. In the meantime we would do well to make the best of what we have and utilize it to the fullest, instead of foolishly refusing to use such sources and by doing so create nothing but havoc, hardship as well as the economy going to hell.
At he moment all that talk about GOING GREEN is nothing more, as Mike Adams bluntly pointed out in one of his articles…. The “Go green” cheer is really just a virtue signaling way to say, “Go F off and die.”
My old state of Maryland was trying to get to 50% renewables by 2030, and then trying to shoot for 100% by 2050. Delusional at this point, unless somebody can figure out much better solar storage capacity or produce the fabled room-temperature superconducting materials to use in electrical wires.
Like I said, our legislugs put it in the state statutes in NV to acheive those goals. Fidiots!
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Look into getting a solar generator with solar panels.🤔
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