Michael Reid
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@ 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.
@ my parents said know
I don’t know but I wonder. Is it the preamble for a mass culling? Sad thought but sometimes my mind works that way
@ sumac.carol
I have done lots of French education and with a Quebec girl for 9 years but I am not fluent. One needs to working in the language and living in the language of the people around you. I have no problem getting what I need but an intellectual conversation is not going to happen
So I have been a bad termite today cutting wood for next winter especially the trees interfering with my solar arrays. I find cutting wood is the best time to reflect on my thoughts.
So I have been reflecting on why I didn’t respond. Yes I did not have much to offer but maybe it is because you have accomplished what I would consider a successful life; marriage, child and home within your wife. These are the things that I have wanted and I was not capable of. I am no genius and in fact I feel my engineering way of life and turbocharged work ethic where work was always first probably prevented me from achieving those goals. But there are other reasons.
Like you all of the people from my hometown in Toronto were economic refugees. I grew up in an isolated fishing output in Newfoundland. The destruction of the fishery is a good example of capitalist extraction of renewable resource that eventually resulted in fishery collapse. I realize this is to be expected in mining.
I reflect on my life. I have never felt economically secure and I have never felt secure in relationship to achieve my goals. Perhaps I should have stayed in my hometown because I would have achieved my goals here but I would not have seen the world and had all of those very interesting experiences and gained all that knowledge
@ WES
Thank you for the response and some of your previous comments have stuck in my mind which means they were significant to me because there is a lot of stuff I am forgetting these days. I usually don’t respond unless there is a question or a point I am trying to share.
Like you I found Toronto very unfriendly and difficult to establish relationships. People were disconnected from each other and no feeling of community. Maybe cities should not be allowed to exist. Most of the people that I met were from college but I was also helped socially because there were quite a few people from my hometown in Toronto at the time and a bunch of us were in the apartments just below York university.
I was doing Electronics Engineering Technology on a full tuition scholarship at DeVry Institute of Technology and it was not until the end of that that I met a nice Quebec girl.
After that, like your brother, I went to the University of Waterloo but I did Computer Engineering.
I concur with the selection of sativa. The effect of this strain is energetic, creative and uplifting. It is the total opposite of indica.
Thank you for parsing the European Medicines Agency message:
Get that needle in your arm, stay home, put some underwear on your face, and keep your clap shut.
I agree. Bullshit
One thing that I noticed growing up in a small town in the middle of nowhere is that you get to know everyone or if not you can recognize which family they are from just by the look of their face. And when new people come to town it’s very exciting because you can make new friends with new ideas. My first time driving into a city was amazing at night, so much light, so many people to meet. And when I was older and moved to Toronto alone at 17 years old I was thinking I am going to make a lot of friends here. That idea did not take long to change. As customary I would say hello to everyone I passed as a common human curtesy but they looked at me like a freak but I was very kind and handsome so I knew it was not my fault. The larger the city, the more alone I felt. Hong Kong was like living in a sea of bodies but I never felt so alone. Small is beautiful, the giant cities are not sustainable and ground floor is optimal.
