Friday Jobs Pending

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A post Thursday Eve as power may not be back until into weekend we’re told.

Made it into town for the post office and diesel.  Never can have too much on hand.

Main agenda was to talk to line crews.  As of 11am yest.we had 11-thousand without power.

People no nice will depend on powrr…might go up as late as Sunday if it comes to it.

Elaine tries to keep busy while I work through readings huna magic and a neat concept called motricity.

Off to get some dinner figured and more shit eye.

Will add tomorrow as power allows.  Nice intro to One Sec. After…

Ure

 

21 thoughts on “Friday Jobs Pending”

  3. I’ve been living without grid power for seven years. Solar panels put power into a used forklift battery and a 3,000 watt inverter powers my house. I have a small generator and battery charger that will put 1,100 watts into the battery to top it off when the sky is too cloudy for too long or if there is snow on the solar panels.

    Oh, yeah, if necessary, I can turn off the inverter and still have power for my Sundanzer refrigerator and freezer on even the shortest, cloudiest, Winter days. Also power for the 12 volt LED lights that light my house quite well. The fridge and freezer are both run on 24 volts.

    I often wonder what people who think they need big generators to power their houses going to do if/when gas and diesel are no longer available.

    I turn 70 in the Spring and have been practicing for SHTF for many years now.

    People need to stop getting their “prep” advice from books like “One Second After” and start talking to those who have been living off grid full time.

    • “People need to stop getting their “prep” advice from books like “One Second After””

      To be fair, I don’t believe anyone takes OSA as a prepping primer (at least I hope not.) I would assume they read it as a warning, regarding things which could happen. Forstchen was both a student of engineering and of history (although I DO question Purdue’s Liberal Arts curriculum…) AFAIK he is not an expert on survival (or prepping, or survivalism) but he is an expert on electromagnetic pulse radiation, and has testified before Congress on dozens of occasions, as such an expert.

      Jim Rawles is an expert on prepping.

      Kurt Saxon is an expert on survivalism and sustainable living…

      Mike Oehler was an expert on living with nature, rather than trying to fight it to suit a notional habitat.

      One Second After is an historical novel. Most of us know this, and accept OSE as the warning Forstchen intended it to be…

    • “I often wonder what people who think they need big generators to power their houses going to do if/when gas and diesel are no longer available.”

      running off grid.. you like a friend of mine.. lives off grid.. you designed your life around your energy consumption and needs..
      the reason most people need bigger units.. is like G.. he lives in an area that during the summer months could literally bake in the summer heat.. IF he puts one in that is to small.. and his demand is higher then he could damage the generator with his normal power consumption and be left in a similar situation but without any way to fix it in a shtf scenario.
      Now if he lived in an earth bermed home or an earth sheltered home his temperature would stay constant and a lot of the energy demands that can happen would be eliminated.. turn the home into and envelope home.. an old old old old idea of teenager random thoughts idea.. get the sun to warm a mass then circulate it around the building turning it into an envelope.. the ancient romans heated and cooled in a similar fashion to the wall thermal mass known as the hypocaust that was used to heat the home in a thermal envelope fashion and cool their structures similarly.. so did the egyptians in another form of the same envelope fashion.. .. in summer you shade the thermal mass from being heated. the ancient romans also used chimneys My guess is the idea was passed down from ancient cave dwellers. the envelope home works in a similar fashion to all of them except for the heat being exhausted it is blown with a low velocity fan so it circulates the structure.. keeping it all in the building.. in the evening it would work similarly to cool or maintain the temperature as the outside air cools.. well that is going off subject LOL way back..way back many many decades ago and got me the first set of drawing tools I ever got was when the DOE had me draw up a set of plans for this childs idea I had to be submitted to them….. and the reverse happens keeping the structure at a constant temperature… sort of like the old soddies.. My great grandmothers home ended up a state museum.. she refused to live in anything else than the old soddie her husband built when they homesteaded..
      but today we have many different technological improvements.. fans furnaces etc.. freezers refrigerators.. cell phones.. at one point our energy consumption was about five to ten KW a day.. today.. its hovering between thirty and fifty kw per day most peoples bill will show a thousand to fifteen hundred kw usage.. our usage here is over two thousand kw per month.. lots of vampire power.. turn the tv on.. My daughter was giving the kids hell because they left the lights on in a room.. then complained about her bill.. I laughed and said honey it isn’t that light they left on.. look what you have going..in the house. televisions are instant on ..it lights right up.. etc.. freezers.. don’t take much energy once they are fired up but starting energy is about a Kw of power seven or eight hundred watts or ten amps.. If you undersize a generator for the maximum load then you could damage the generator by putting to much stress on it..
      https://www.forconstructionpros.com/rental/power/portable-generators/article/11361025/how-to-get-the-rightsized-generator-for-the-job#:~:text=%22Under%2Dsizing%20a%20generator%20%5B,the%20unit%2C%22%20Howe%20indicates.

      it is one of those instances where you do want to make sure you have enough power available.. the generator will only put out what the demand is.. but to have the excess available for when the demand is high..

    • Congratulations, and I mean that sincerely. But expand that out to 350 million LEGAL citizens and several million illegals and where does it land you?

      In the absence of anyone coming to help in any hard grid down, even with no infrastructure damage, that lasts long enough to deplete the petroleum supplies in a large area it will put you into that exact OSA scenario. Momentary power supplied by solar will last for a while, maybe a few years until the batteries wear out but the food situation will present a major problem long before that – and that will land you, again, in the OSA scenario or something very similar to it. Given what we’ve seen of this PRETENDency so far do you really think this maniacal administration will actually send help when it’s needed – that doesn’t come from the CCP military? In the back of most people’s minds here the feeling that they’d make things as bad as possible to get rid of the most number of useless eaters and wrong-thinkers would be as obvious as any anti-America program they have in operation at the moment and far fewer would be willing to deny their lying eyes then as they do now.

      I do not think for a moment that Forstchen wrote his books in a bubble as he has been a member of a think tank community that considers these things for a long time. Should you find yourself in a situation where a large part of the nation, not just a coastal city or other locality, is down and out you will be in uncharted waters that only our great and greater grandparents would be prepared to live in.

      • “Momentary power supplied by solar will last for a while, maybe a few years until the batteries wear out”

        Or the panels degrade, which they will.

        Our single worst environmental contamination threat from current technology, is not from spent rods, but from spent solar panels.

        My bias against solar and wind is not simply because I live in a place where neither is practical, but because “renewables,” as the word has come to mean, is a con. Somebody like the paneled people on Peoplenomics can make it work (if you dig back through George’s pubs, you’ll see he figured about a 20% net savings over just being a grid-leech, given the expense, maintenance, battery cost, and effective lifespan of the solar panels.

        BTW, I’ve been playing with solar cells since the 1960s. I have my own solar panel array. If I lived elsewhere, I’m sure I would have better results, but my opinion regarding the tech would still be the same…

  6. Re: Shooting Blanks on Threadneedle Street

    Folks,

    The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee minutes of yesterday’s meeting raising the UK lending rate 0.5% to 4%were released today. Yet again PM Sunak’s two committee appointees who are wage and housing economists argued against the increase due to concerns on the most recent ’22 Q3 housing and labour stats. The other 7 committee members (ex-GS bankers?) seem to be looking only at the ’22 Q4 inflation numbers and suggest higher interest rates are not out of the question. (!!) I think you warned us about The Fed making this sort of potential faux-pas, George?

    Next meeting is March 22…

  10. Your readers miss you George but have you and Elaine in our prayers. If anyone in your state or country is more prepared than you, I am not sure who. It is the thousands that are totally unprepared everywhere that need to hear from you when you get out the other side.

    This Glenn Beck video yesterday is worth a watch.

    https://youtu.be/H7Bqxrqc4GI

    Stay warm and well.

    • Re: Roswell
      feat. Powers was out 2/10

      Here’s DJ George tuning up the amps with hot rocks – U2 “Electrical Storm”.

      • Re: Chaff
        feat: Task Force 59

        Reuters has an interesting report out that N257TH which launched from New Mexico by a private operator was not the Chinese balloon.

  13. I figure the balloon is distributing viruses, and shooting it down would just spread them.

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