Subj : Re: cold weather
To   : fU
From : Khelair
Date : Sat Feb 28 2015 13:05:00

  Re: Re: cold weather
  By: fU to Skuz on Sat Feb 28 2015 16:50:35

 fU> you know... if i can deal with the totaly exaggerated entry paperwork
 fU> for the US i will visit your place. i know on the frontdoor with
 fU> original german beer ;)

  *laugh*  Okay well I'm totally jumping into a discussion that doesn't have to
do with me, I hope you don't mind.  I wouldn't underestimate that paperwork,
though.  Trying to get my fiancee through immigration was so hard that it ended
up splitting up our engagement.

 fU> in germany most of the people are not heating with electric. most uses
 fU> natural gas, teleheating and the cool oldschool way like skuz it does
 fU> with wood-fired heating.

  Ansbach was different, as was Petersaurach.  I got pretty fond of the tiny
little electric water-heater that would exist in each apartment, that would
keep a small (maybe 10G, not sure in L) amount of water hot enough so that it
could power a full shower, load of clothes, or whatever.  Seems a lot more
efficient than the huge ones that we have here in the states normally, in most
homes, where they keep enough active to superheat all of the water in the house
for too long of a time; especially when there are no real insulation
requirements on them.

 fU> so if a power outage happend, the most people kept her warm ass :)

  For her sake, I'm glad my finacee isn't in Germany any more, though the fact
that she met another soldier to marry after she ditched me does kind of stick
in my craw a bit.

 fU> and there's a another point i can't explain by myself. may be some of
 fU> you guys can explain me, why the hell the most powerlines in the US are
 fU> unearthly and not in the ground, under the street?

  That has been of great quandery to me, as well.  I'm not sure, but it
probably has something to do with the original schematics that J.P. Morgan drew
up when he was first laying the power grid with Edison's help.  I could just
totally be pulling that out of my ass, though.  It was, of course, Tesla who
made it more viable with AC instead of DC.
  Some larger city areas have the power grid down beneath, along with the sewer
equipment and everything, but it's very true, most of the non-ultra-urban areas
in the US are blasting EM radiation all over the place with the above-ground
lines, transformers, power stations, boosting stations, etc.  It's been awhile
since I've had the income to pick & choose carefully where I live, but when I
finally can, I'll be on the lookout to stay as far away from this shit as
possible.
 
 fU> it's on every heavy-weather event that the powerlines cuts down, the
 fU> transformators gets damaged and by strom winds the powerlines lie on the
 fU> streets and be a safety hazard for people.

  It's ridiculous, absolutely.

 fU> as i grow up i lived in a very small village (300 lifes including all
 fU> cows*g) and we also had the powerlines hanging in the air from house to
 fU> house. but in the mid 80s (i feel so old everytime i write this) they
 fU> bring the lines under the streets. and i guess in very big cities like
 fU> newyork the powerlines are also under the ground.

  Germany, right?  They've always been ahead of the punch when it comes to
power grid modification compared to the USA.  All that our corporations care
about is maintaining as much continuity as they can without major costs to
revamp things, usually.  It holds them back, but they keep the shareholders
happy that way.  Needless to say, I despise the system we have in place here. 
Europe would be far preferable to being here.  When I attempted to relocate
there, though...  Well it didn't work.  This network is not the place for such
drama.  ;)

 fU> but germany is facing also a power blackout on the next solar eclips on
 fU> march the 20th. in germany at a sunny day we produce about 400MW in a
 fU> minute with the sun. the powernet will be lost and raise up a big amount
 fU> of power in this time. and the electric companies are informed via media
 fU> that many customers had to deal with a blackout. and we can't buy some
 fU> power from our neighbours, well they also had the same problem. my bbs
 fU> had a power-emergency-system also all telephone hubs, and cellphone
 fU> radiotowers in germany had this too. so the bbs maybe still working at
 fU> this time.

  I thought that they had plenty of backups for the grid that were non-solar. 
I mean I know about the distributed solar grid there, but aren't there nuke
plants and/or coal/gas fired plants that can pick up the load?  I'm genuinely
curious about this.

 fU> it could be a good idea to calculate the complete power-usage of all the
 fU> bbs-stuff and plug a fat solarpanel on the top of my garage :)

  Took the words right out of my mouth.  My main mission for this system that
I'm running includes being able to power it from out of the back of a vehicle
and/or at any station I may choose in between.  I'd love to just tap into the
Schumann resonance and pull the power I need, but barring massive influx of
education on how to do this, I'll probably end up settling for a large bank of
power cells, maybe the capability to transfer it to Pii to save power, and
solar power, I'm not sure exactly what I'll do.  If I'm roaming around in the
PacNW here, I'll have to have other backups, too.  Solar is not viable a lot of
days out of the year in this area.

 fU> and skuz is a lucky man he can walk around and find coal! all i found
 fU> are mushrooms and couples having sex in the woods X.x also a kind of
 fU> warming up :P

  Mushrooms are good!

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