Electric vehicles during a disaster

[Egon]

For some reason I always have plenty of those ingredients on hand.

Have you got the proper vehicle for conveyance? As I recall a Chrysler 300 with the 413 was sorta at the top of the list.
Quads with Ram injection manifolds and 10.5 compression ratio.

 

[Jstpssng]

I wasn't talking about anyone specific. You or anyone else. If I had a bedroom over my carport, I wouldn't park my battery car in the carport. Bad enough with regular vehicles.

I wouldn't park any vehicle in the same building that I live in, for various reasons. I know that many do, but I would rather walk 50 feet in the rain.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

I wouldn't park any vehicle in the same building that I live in, for various reasons. I know that many do, but I would rather walk 50 feet in the rain.

They think we odd, but we think ahead.

 

[MossRoad]

Have you got the proper vehicle for conveyance? As I recall a Chrysler 300 with the 413 was sorta at the top of the list.
Quads with Ram injection manifolds and 10.5 compression ratio.

No. Sadly I do not.

 

[MossRoad]

We’ve always had detached garages…. It makes it harder for the wife to find me.

 

[deserteagle71]

Why Switzerland wants to ban electric vehicles

Switzerland is preparing for a possible blackout. Under the proposal, the country plans to restrict energy usage in buildings and may even ban concerts, theatre performances, and sporting events. If the situation worsens, Switzerland wants to limit the use of electric vehicles to only essential...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

 

[cqaigy2]

Speaking of attached garages.

Before i met my wife, she had a rental that she decided to sell. Dad was a volunteer firefighter and his family were renting and getting finances together to buy it. Nat Gas appliances in the garage, forced air and hot water heater. She came by to talk to the renter and noticed a strong smell of gasoline in the garage, the dad said his son was working on a VW and the gas tank had a leak. She told him he should probably get it out of the garage, that there were gas appliances etc in the garage, i.e ignition points. A week later she gets a call from a friend of hers that lived across the street from the rental, and told her the fire department was there working on her house. The fire started in the garage. The dad told her him and his son were stepping into the garage, from the how, the forced air kicked on, ignited the fumes, he slammed the door closed. The gas appliances burned away and the gas feed lines were open into the garage. This was before the requirement of sealing the area up in the roof where the trusses and rafters were so fire traveled over into the main part of the house.

 

[MossRoad]

Yikes! My dad told me when I was a kid that's why you always want an attached garage to be down a few steps lower than a house with a basement. Gasoline fumes travel on flat surfaces, and down steps and such. He also frowned on gas appliances like furnaces and water heaters in garages, even if up on elevated platforms. He was a proponent of open carports and/or detached garages.

 

[Grumpycat]

Yikes! My dad told me when I was a kid that's why you always want an attached garage to be down a few steps lower than a house with a basement. Gasoline fumes travel on flat surfaces, and down steps and such. He also frowned on gas appliances like furnaces and water heaters in garages, even if up on elevated platforms. He was a proponent of open carports and/or detached garages.

Same for propane. It puddles until it rises high enough to be noticed and then somewhere between floor and ceiling is at optimal ratio for combustion. Natural gas mixes easier with air and is apparently leaner when detected.

Put 1/2" of gasoline in a soup can then start throwing lit matches in it. If you watch carefully they may flash briefly on the way down then extinguish in the gasoline. The flash is where gasoline vapor and oxygen are at optimum ratio. Then the match goes out for lack of oxygen.

My brother works on OEM appliance controls including gas furnaces. He says 5% of the gas market is propane, 95% of the fatalities is propane.

 

[KennyG]

My brother works on OEM appliance controls including gas furnaces. He says 5% of the gas market is propane, 95% of the fatalities is propane.

If this is true, I wonder how much is because propane systems are local and more subject to poor installation/maintenance than NG systems?