DURR it's cold outside there can't be no global warming or hurrrrr

[tomdalton22]

FYI. Anyone that has a gas or propane furnace and can't afford a entire house backup generator (about $5-10K) here is what you do.

Instead of hard wiring your furnace, have an electrician dedicate an outlet for your furnace. They will keep it on the same dedicated circuit so it's no different. Get yourself a $400 Honda generator for emergency purposes. Unplug your furnace from the wall and run it off the generator. If you have a prolonged power outage just run your generator when you want to heat up the house. It could be a pain in the ass (starting and stopping the generator to conserve gas) but at least you can keep your house warm.

 

[Michchamp]

This is a fatal flaw.

did it ever get cold on their island?

I can imagine a sudden freak cold snap leaving them shivering, building coats out of coconot fiber and palm leaves, and a Eskimo in his kayak (guest star: Don Ho) getting blown off course there, with hilarious hijinks ensuing.

The script practically writes itself...

 

[Gulo Blue]

did it ever get cold on their island?

I can imagine a sudden freak cold snap leaving them shivering, building coats out of coconot fiber and palm leaves, and a Eskimo in his kayak (guest star: Don Ho) getting blown off course there, with hilarious hijinks ensuing.

The script practically writes itself...

I mean it kills the tiny stick fire generator I posted.

 

[Michchamp]

FYI. Anyone that has a gas or propane furnace and can't afford a entire house backup generator (about $5-10K) here is what you do.

Instead of hard wiring your furnace, have an electrician dedicate an outlet for your furnace. They will keep it on the same dedicated circuit so it's no different. Get yourself a $400 Honda generator for emergency purposes. Unplug your furnace from the wall and run it off the generator. If you have a prolonged power outage just run your generator when you want to heat up the house. It could be a pain in the ass (starting and stopping the generator to conserve gas) but at least you can keep your house warm.

Why didn't you post this here years ago, instead of all your RAH RAH Ohio State football BS?

 

[JScottWriter]

Don't worry Texas your senator is nice and warm in Cancun today.

 

[tinselwolverine]

He must have had one just off camera powering the coconut radio.

https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/campstove-2-plus

did it ever get cold on their island?

I can imagine a sudden freak cold snap leaving them shivering, building coats out of coconot fiber and palm leaves, and a Eskimo in his kayak (guest star: Don Ho) getting blown off course there, with hilarious hijinks ensuing.

The script practically writes itself...

Just the love triangle was sometimes a little chilly.

https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/campstove-2-plus

 

[tinselwolverine]

He must have had one just off camera powering the coconut radio.

https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/campstove-2-plus

did it ever get cold on their island?

I can imagine a sudden freak cold snap leaving them shivering, building coats out of coconot fiber and palm leaves, and a Eskimo in his kayak (guest star: Don Ho) getting blown off course there, with hilarious hijinks ensuing.

The script practically writes itself...

Just the love triangle was sometimes a little chilly.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dMsrkVh_j_Y

 

[tomdalton22]

Why didn't you post this here years ago, instead of all your RAH RAH Ohio State football BS?

durr...OSU fans don't like to share our redneck quick fixes with you elite UM grads...durr ;-)

Also, I don't think I "RAH RAH" Ohio State football at all. My guess is very few here even know I'm a fan.

 

[sggatecl]

durr...OSU fans don't like to share our redneck quick fixes with you elite UM grads...durr ;-)

Also, I don't think I "RAH RAH" Ohio State football at all. My guess is very few here even know I'm a fan.

I had no idea.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Don't worry Texas your senator is nice and warm in Cancun today.

Maybe he was trying to distance himself from the Capitol rioters as much as he could.

 

[sggatecl]

Maybe he was trying to distance himself from the Capitol rioters as much as he could.

Please Tinsel. Don't joke about such a serious situation.

This is the heartbreaking tale of how an American had to travel 1700 miles to find heat, water, and electricity.

 

[Michchamp]

I had no idea.

you didn't? It made for some amusing moments when MSU fans would get upset at him, and bring up Dantonio's record against UM, or the Fab 5 in response, only for him to respond he was an OSU fan and didn't care.

 

[tomdalton22]

Please Tinsel. Don't joke about such a serious situation.

This is the heartbreaking tale of how an American had to travel 1700 miles to find heat, water, and electricity.

pretty funny...he had to go to Mexico to get drinkable water

 

[tomdalton22]

you didn't? It made for some amusing moments when MSU fans would get upset at him, and bring up Dantonio's record against UM, or the Fab 5 in response, only for him to respond he was an OSU fan and didn't care.

nobody listens to what I have to say...even in my own house

 

[Michchamp]

pretty funny...he had to go to Mexico to get drinkable water

The Wall is ineffective against air travel. BUILD IT HIghER

 

[byco42]

Hey, guys, ease up. Ted’s daughters asked if he would take them to ... Cancun. My daughter used to ask me to take her to the movies. So, I get what Ted is trying to do here.

 

[Michchamp]

the chairwoman of the ERCOT board lives in Michigan, and appears to have a great track record:

Former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder appointed Talberg to the Michigan Public Service Commission on July 3, 2013. She served as chairman from January 4, 2016 until July 27, 2020. She served until December 31, 2020, the day she became the ERCOT chairman, according to the MPSC. The MPSC provides Michigan residents access to energy and telecommunications services, its website says.​

the vice chair of the board lives in Del Mar, CA. another board member apparently lives in Canada.

this all raises so many additional questions... who are these people, how did they get their jobs, who pays their salaries, what incentives are in their compensation packages, etc.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Ok, I've got my hands on the new book from Bill Gates about avoiding a climate disaster. Looking at the table of context, I see nothing about population. The index in the back is 10 pages long. There's poverty in Africa, artificial meat, batteries, biofuels, carbon capture, clouds, intermittency problems, mangrove trees, palm oil... nothing that suggests reducing population. I honestly expect something somewhere about the demands of a growing population, but stopping it is clearly not what's being pushed here.

 

[Gulo Blue]

3x more content on nuclear than wind
2x more solar than wind
1.5x more on concrete manufacturing than wind

 

[Thumb]

That's first on my shopping list. I'm renting a house now, so it's not that easy (can't modify the wiring to allow for an external plug and place to run the generator), but in retrospect I should've found a way to make it work.

FYI. Anyone that has a gas or propane furnace and can't afford a entire house backup generator (about $5-10K) here is what you do.

Instead of hard wiring your furnace, have an electrician dedicate an outlet for your furnace. They will keep it on the same dedicated circuit so it's no different. Get yourself a $400 Honda generator for emergency purposes. Unplug your furnace from the wall and run it off the generator. If you have a prolonged power outage just run your generator when you want to heat up the house. It could be a pain in the ass (starting and stopping the generator to conserve gas) but at least you can keep your house warm.

A popular (temporary) solution to having an electrician wire in an external feed dongle is to backfeed through a 240v dryer or range outlet. You kill the main set of breakers (at the top) in your service panel so if the power comes back on you don't blow shit up, and just have a heavily insulated line made up from Home Depot supplies to go from generators 240V outlet to one in your home.

My generator is a Generac, 12,000 starting, 10,000 Watts running mostly portable generator and it will do my whole house including my well, gas furnace (not my geothermal system unfortunately) water heater and ever outlet I have including the ones in garage running extra freezer and extra fridge, though even the cheap brands sold by Harbor Freight work very well from what people I know who have them have said. Mine will run approx 6 hours under load on a full tank of gas, so you can even get some sleep.