Subj : Re: cold weather
To   : Skuz
From : Khelair
Date : Fri Feb 20 2015 22:02:00

  Re: Re: cold weather
  By: Skuz to Orbitman on Fri Feb 20 2015 23:06:42

 Or>> How are you dealing with the extremely cold weather?

 Sk> Here my house is all electic, but I off-set the bill, by utilizing the
 Sk> fire place, buck-stove and dutch oven. By spending my free time in the
 Sk> summer months using chain-saw, log-splitter and axe/mall...I perpare for
 Sk> winter. Finding free coal in the appalachian mountains is fairly easy ..
 Sk> since my area is encompass by abandened railroad tracks and coal mines.
 Sk> Without electric power, the computer will stop working.. but I will stay
 Sk> warm, eat good food, drink and smoke whatever, ..pleases me. I have a
 Sk> Kenwood R-1000 SW radio, also a made in China, BAOFENG UV-5R hand unit. My
 Sk> porjects that are still in the works are Solar panels and larger aray of
 Sk> battery banks.. 6V and 12V.

  Nice!  I wish I could say I had the resources to be working with anything
like that yet...  At my last place, I had been working with creating a fresnel
lens array that was going to work as a heater...  Had plans for a lot of
photovoltaic arrays, also.  Everything has been rough since I had to move away
from there, though.  Still working on establishing enough baseline income to be
able to do anything for myself.
  What area do you live in, if you don't mind me asking?  God that'd be an
awesome set of resources to have.  I've also thought about a parabolic trough
style oil-based heat battery to set up for heating and/or energy production,
though that idea was still pretty experimental.  All I've really got now for
electric is enough battery juice to keep my survival tome machine active for
about 15 minutes once the power is cut off...  I had a lot more, but most of it
right now falls down to skills and tools.  :P
  I still need to get more used to what this area has to offer for survival
resources.  The pacific nw, that is.  Right now I'm still only used to how to
survive on the plains, which is great for cold weather survival, but I'm pretty
lost as far as what to do in the woods other than what boyscouts taught me so
far.  This temperate rain forest is totally new to me.

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