Tough question. Wood for heat works pretty well if you can lay in a good supply before cold weather sets in. You can buy tri-fuel generators that use gasoline, propane or natural gas. For those of us in hot climates like Arizona, generators with a swamp cooler is about all you can do for that. Also, run the generator long enough to keep the refrigerators and freezers cold and wait it out. You need a lot of solar panels to do what I just described. Storage is a problem, for sure. If you are inventive you can buy solar concentrators such as fresnel lenses or large parabolas to use for solar cooking. https://www.edmundoptics.com/c/fresnel-lenses/730/#
Would you need to disconnect from natural gas? The meter is for electric, which I think is the problem. One could get a generator that is fed by Natural gas if your house has gas already.
For solar, you can utilize LiFEPo4 batteries which are safer and last longer.
You still MUST buy batteries in cases where you want to utilize power and that's on top of the panels (which fortunately do have a much longer lifespan, but still, very expensive)
The problem here is that everyone is so reliant on some sort of 3rd party shit to just exist. I'd be ok living in the woods and burning wood for fuel for crying out loud. I could read books for entertainment. But I'll still have to figure out and rely on others for additional food.
There is no clear solution to this problem, society as a whole needs to really be fixed so that we can have a tolerable well running economic system going on. It'd probably be ok enough as it is but thanks to all the big guys who just forced dependence on oil and the ones who forced to go with heavy industrialization we have what we have today - a big fat mess. We could've gone slower with the advancements but instead everything got rushed... And it seems like that hyper rush rush rush bullshit has to keep going on to keep everyone blind about all these things going on because we're all caught up in the imagination bullshit instead.
To get to your question though, realistically I would find it a pretty big pain in the ass if I really needed to magically disconnect from utilities but it would be manageable.
Edison batteries (Ni-Fe), have a proven record of safely lasting for 20 years or more. When I was a little kid, my father would take me with him when he went shopping near Grand Central Terminal for photo supplies and equipment. The Railway Express Agency used EV delivery trucks in the GCT area from about the end of WWI until 1960. Dad would point them out to me. Same trucks, same batteries. My hometown has a sludge plant and there has been some talk of capturing the gas and using that to produce electricity. Worth considering. We once had a coal gas plant. Not so bad and could be improved on.
Tough question. Wood for heat works pretty well if you can lay in a good supply before cold weather sets in. You can buy tri-fuel generators that use gasoline, propane or natural gas. For those of us in hot climates like Arizona, generators with a swamp cooler is about all you can do for that. Also, run the generator long enough to keep the refrigerators and freezers cold and wait it out. You need a lot of solar panels to do what I just described. Storage is a problem, for sure. If you are inventive you can buy solar concentrators such as fresnel lenses or large parabolas to use for solar cooking. https://www.edmundoptics.com/c/fresnel-lenses/730/#
I hadn't heard of fresnel lenses, thank you
Would you need to disconnect from natural gas? The meter is for electric, which I think is the problem. One could get a generator that is fed by Natural gas if your house has gas already.
It would be better to not rely on the gas co either, though
Propane wouldn’t be a good option to reply on either.
For solar, you can utilize LiFEPo4 batteries which are safer and last longer.
You still MUST buy batteries in cases where you want to utilize power and that's on top of the panels (which fortunately do have a much longer lifespan, but still, very expensive)
The problem here is that everyone is so reliant on some sort of 3rd party shit to just exist. I'd be ok living in the woods and burning wood for fuel for crying out loud. I could read books for entertainment. But I'll still have to figure out and rely on others for additional food.
There is no clear solution to this problem, society as a whole needs to really be fixed so that we can have a tolerable well running economic system going on. It'd probably be ok enough as it is but thanks to all the big guys who just forced dependence on oil and the ones who forced to go with heavy industrialization we have what we have today - a big fat mess. We could've gone slower with the advancements but instead everything got rushed... And it seems like that hyper rush rush rush bullshit has to keep going on to keep everyone blind about all these things going on because we're all caught up in the imagination bullshit instead.
To get to your question though, realistically I would find it a pretty big pain in the ass if I really needed to magically disconnect from utilities but it would be manageable.
Yes, it's being reliant on potentially corrupt companies that's the problem
Edison batteries (Ni-Fe), have a proven record of safely lasting for 20 years or more. When I was a little kid, my father would take me with him when he went shopping near Grand Central Terminal for photo supplies and equipment. The Railway Express Agency used EV delivery trucks in the GCT area from about the end of WWI until 1960. Dad would point them out to me. Same trucks, same batteries. My hometown has a sludge plant and there has been some talk of capturing the gas and using that to produce electricity. Worth considering. We once had a coal gas plant. Not so bad and could be improved on.
I'll look up those Edison batteries, thank you