Michael Reid
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@ V. Arnold
“ In a world as loveless as ours has become, truth naturally goes extinct.
…an interesting turn of phrase…and I largely agree…
In the west, love has become synonymous with sex…some still know better…………..”I have been thinking about this all day
This discussion of love and sex has consumed my mind today. One without the other always seems to result in no life I want to lead.
I have all of it maybe who knows. I feel that I have empathy but only up to a limit . Reminds me of the tribe leaving one behind to die.
And hurricane clips and massive bolts. We were not building for profit, we were building so that it would last . It can be done when you learn how to do things
The barrels are at ceiling level in our open concept. In fact when we wash socks in our washing machine I will dry them by hanging it over the barrel plumbing. Nice thing about it is when your wood stove goes out at night the thermal inertia helps keep things warmer
@ Dr. D
I see you realize what I have described. But virtually nothing other than death will prevent me from working to make my dreams become my reality
And regarding the weight, my dad is a master carpenter among many things.
The home is built on bedrock. Eight inch concrete foundation. 2 x 6 walls at 12 inch spacing, 2 x 10 rafters at one foot spacing and a massive beam mid-rafter. You see I like challenging my dad. Poor dad.
So the water storage consists of eight what people would recognize as fuel drums that can be bought on uline website in Canada at least that have the interior lined for potable water application. Each of these drums is suspended by two nylon straps.
My incoming water goes through 50 mesh screen, 20 micron filter then 1 micron filter and again and then one micron absolute filter and then drinking water goes through charcoal filter followed by ceramic filter with some silver stuff which is 0.35 microns so no beaver fever but I am not scared
@ WES
When I lived in Ontario my parents and I and a couple from my hometown built my house at 45 Temperance Lake road. The lake was at the top of the watershed and I didn’t but would drink that water if I was forced to. Its water flows into Charleston Lake which flows into the Saint Lawrence. I had a drilled well there and the water was hard and some iron in it.
Yes water is essential. So here now I live on a salmon river in the middle of nowhere and drink water out of that river. I have learned a lot about plumbing.
@ madamski
Warmed my heart, made me smile and send a sensation of love through my core. Thank you for your presence
Pumped up from the river 400 gallons of water into the home freshwater storage tanks. This is something I do approximately every 4 days in the winter
@ WES
Yes solar is the best choice based on remote location.
If I remember correctly I paid around $0.75 per watt.
The best battery bank is a single string of deep cycle flooded lead acid batteries. Rolls Surette batteries made in Nova Scotia were my choice. The ones I chose have maybe 4 inches of electrolyte reserve where one adds deionized water which gets consumed by the charge cycles. No need to worry about freezing if loads are disconnected and the solar is keeping the batteries fully charged. Using all the water/electrolyte and drying out the cell causes major battery damage so be sure to sure to top with water at least monthly if in use.
For an off grid year round home like mine I built the arrays at the angle that provides maximum power for the shortest day of the year. Every other day has the potential to yield more.
I have a 24 volt battery bank. It consists of six 4 volt batteries with each battery weighing 340 pounds.
The battery bank should last me the rest of my life if properly watered. Very heavily built quality batteries and a daily depth of discharge of 10 to 20 percent. I ran the calculations but don’t recall exactly. I tried to design for 10 percent daily depth of discharge. The deeper you discharge the battery the less charge cycles for the battery life.
The major consumable is deionized water. I recently purchased the necessary filtration to produce deionized water myself.
Most of the work occurs in the winter when I have to shovel snow away from the arrays and clean snow off the panels.
@ WES
If you have a grid connection possibility I recommend to use that.
If you are concerned with the reliability of the grid get a fine generator and stabilized fuel as a backup.
The off grid system I have costs around $100000
The only reason to do that is because there is no grid connection. Lacking knowledge I was under the impression that the solar system was the best for the environment but I was wrong. If you watch the documentary “Planet of the humans” you will understand.
The best value would be to have massive fuel storage, a fine generator and an identical one for backup
I texted that video to most of my family and friends. No response. I suggested if you want to have a party and the police show up this is how to handle the situation and persevere your rights. Still feeling different from the majority as always. Anyway people must be free to live how they feel no matter where it leads.
My 95 year old grandmother is so full of life that she acts like a teenager at times. The last time she really hurt herself was when she needed something out of the top cupboard. She is short around 5 feet and thankfully I am not but unfortunately I was not around when she placed a chair in front of the cupboard and then on top of the chair she placed a 5 gallon bucket and then she climbed up on top of the mess because she felt like she was 16. No lie. It resulted in pain
My last comment was not fully formed and I am not referring to the people here. I am thinking of my parents and my 95 year old grandmother who will likely get the vaccine.
@ phoenixvoice
Regarding your comment starting “Covid passports in UK”, it kind of wowed me thinking why had not seen that from the over time perspective. So true
@ WES
I worked and partied hard yesterday. I should probably have stopped commenting at a certain point. I remember the story of your grandma’s wood stove I think. I plan to go back and look at the comments at some point. Seems like there were comments that I had read but could not find and comments that I was pretty sure I tried to post but could not find. Not worried. Living life
I live totally off grid. Access in summer by boat and access in winter by snowmobile or walking.
The solar system is pretty awesome. I designed it, purchased it, installed it, troubleshot it and now I am maintaining it.
When full sun is on the arrays, solar provides 6000 watts. The inverter/charger provides 240 volt service at 20 amps allowing me to run two 20 amp 120 volt circuits throughout the house.
The battery bank can service our loads mainly refrigeration, lighting and entertainment for probably 5 days of darkness. We had a very dark late fall and early spring and it became an emergency to get a reliable generator and fuel so that lost of power did not result in the loss of all our frozen food. We have a brand new generator now. I could have salted all the meat but that would not be my preference. I am hoping to implement a smokehouse this year
I think we could be friends
@ VietnamVet
The way that I see it is, truly live your life without fear and embrace death when it comes. All this worrying prevents full engagement with life
@ madamski
In my mind I have tried to post to you on significant issues (perhaps only in my mind). Maybe tomorrow
@ madamski
I cannot find your post to reference and maybe I dreamed you thought I had figured out something about yourself but I know nothing about you really other than you are brilliant.
So the continuation of my story is that I was laid off from General Dynamics Canada during the 2009 downturn.
So I am thinking what am I going to do with my life? So I am thinking let’s try to make the world better than making all this nasty shit.
I decided to do registered nursing in my home province probably influenced that I am very attracted to nurses. Anyway I am close to home and the people that I love.
When I started to really respond to you it’s because I am a nurse and you needed some nursing and I am pleased how you have resurrected yourself.
Mr. House wrote:
“Was it all made up? Was it all just the flu from the getgo and then made worse by those who were supposed to be treating it? Was it worth a year of your life and the rest of your freedoms?”
That is what I believe among other things
If anyone wants to know what the smell and taste of home was for me as child, learn to make homemade bread. I am doing that today and cooking it in the Kitchen Queen wood stove
@ madamski
“Covid has been hyped into a kind of WMD where we have to know whether we should cut the red wire or green wire when all it needs is a solid kick in the nuts.”
You are awesome … at times
Yeah we might get told to get a room. Nice to meet you
Look at the number of people who have died and compare it with previous years for flu deaths. Aren’t they similar but a little higher.
All these restrictions and I think live until you die and that life should be minimally restricted.
