Thoughts on mega wind and solar projects

[MossRoad]

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But back towards the topic -- I think that should be a real concern for US and Humanity -- the rise of total (learned and now practiced) dependence on Electricity. We are really to the point (in just 100 or 150 or whatever years) -- that many folks cannot eat, or drink, or even breath without it.

Yep. I think about all the technological advances my grandma saw in her lifetime (1896-1994). Electricity, clean indoor plumbing, cars, airliners, air conditioning, etc... now, my mother in-law relies on oxygen some days. If the emergency tanks run out, no electric, no oxygen.

We have a wood burner and in a pinch, I could take the cap off the well and dip water with string and a small vessel.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

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Amazing how much of humanity went from ZERO Electricity just 100 years ago to an essential part of life now, huh?
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I would not want to live without a microwave. What a time saver!

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In 1926, the vast majority of rural American homes, which made up a significant portion of the population, did not have electricity.

Rural Areas: Approximately 90% of all farms in the United States did not have electricity in the 1920s.

I left the 19th century tech in place as I modernized the house. We don't have a wood cook stove, but can cook on top of the wood stove with no difficulty. We even have a hand crank coffee mill. I just saw a reflector oven online, and might weld one up for the wood stove. That's probably more trouble than it's worth. We have lived here 30 years. I have a 2 burner propane stove with a camp oven that I have never used.

Our power outages are in winter. I would not want to have to cook with wood in the summer, though I have a Weber kettle, a Texas smoker, and a nice fire pit with cooking grate. The fire pit is of limited usefulness in the summer because of fire danger.

I have thought about building a wood fired oven in the back yard but never not past buying a bunch of used brick.