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Generally, yes.

Eventually, when I own my own property, I will be building everything off grid. More solar will be necessary, but that's easy enough with enough fiat.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

well, diesel is more resilient against EMP

literally the engine can be set up so it can't be disabled, only the electrical parts in the generator

diesel engines don't actually need condensors and batteries and starter motors

you can just have a crank, that's it, crank, and a few cycles of that and you get enough compression and the diesel burns by itself

it is the most beautiful technology, but hard to find it set up without that electricity dependency and hard to find it used to directly generate torque or pressure for fluid or rotational work only

IMO, using electricity as the universal intermediate for the transmission of force is a dumb idea when we are at a solar peak while the galactic magnetism is flipping through a vertical point and might actually cause our planet to physically spin

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

and honestly, i'm of the opinion that this electronic tech should be shielded and grounded, always, and you all who don't get what that means are not going to have computers before the next 20 years pass

mobile devices are all gonna go blank one day, zero reception, everywhere, no hotspot, no mobile, no nothing

the bulk of undersea and underground - especially optic - cables are gonna keep working, and all the junction poitns and routers will be moved underground and shielded, and then, people are gonna realise

we can't do mobile radio for a while now

we are gonna be lucky if your electrical devices work at all, most household wiring is going to be fucked, fused randomly all over the shop

you won't be able to cook, heat, or cool or wash

this is going to lead to a radical change in how people think about energy use, and the dirty inconvenient diesel generator being on site versus 3km away

spoiler alert

better it's here, better it has mechanical junctions to your heating and cooling pump systems and washers, and better you design your houses to be passively efficient

but i'm sure your children will be into this

The Beave 1y ago

I agree with having "low-tech" redundancies, and, in my case, designing things to work without any electricity in the first place.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i just fucking hate induction cooking, so i'm very fond of the idea of having bbq

very big fan of bbq, as is our Lord who may show up one day and be hungreh

The Beave 1y ago

Why do you hate induction cooking?

I'm not opposed to it.

BBQ is the best. 😁

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

the complexity of the technology versus the efficiency gain is not worth it

i'm pretty sure catalytic electrolysis of water to hydrogen is more efficient, and easier and simpler and more reliably distributed

i have a 12" diameter pan

the induction heating only covers a ring around 8" of the pan

how am supposed to account for this in my cooking technique so i don't get undercooked food?

yes! ridiculous, only cook in 9" pan

now, go to your kitchen and look if you have a 9" pan

after that, go inspect your bbq and see if it can cope with a 12" steak

The Beave 1y ago

A very even 8" of heating is better than most gas rings. Set it low and give your pan time to heat evenly.

I cook pretty much exclusively on cast iron (or enameled steel) and I can cook whatever, wherever, however I want.

Hydrolysis is very energy intensive. I don't like trying to store hydrogen, so you'd need an hho generator big enough to get enough flow to provide a flame that's enough to cook with. I can't think that would be easy or especially efficient electrically, as an induction cook top might legitimately more electrically efficient.

I've seen larger "professional" induction cookers that could easily handle a big pan.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

my biggest problem with all of it is when the power goes out i'm not able to cook

cylinders of propane are more resilient (i'm not a fan of gas pipes everywhere either)

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

tbh, i prefer wood cooking, better for flavour of the food and not subject to any technological nonsense outage problems or supply

d23b7c1f... 1y ago

all the smoke from a fire will make the food (including cowboy cake) taste so much better

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i'm quite salty that my madeira residence doesn't have an outdoor spit... my neighbours have one, and there is one in this house but it's in the other part that i am not renting, and nobody uses

The Beave 1y ago

You could use an induction cooker for emergencies.

Propane is very resilient, but also very dependent on the whole petroleum refining infrastructure. It's not wise to be too dependent on that, IMO, especially since propane is on the Hit list for elemination. Prices will keep going up, and it's already more expensive than electricity in stone places

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

my preference overall is charcoal grilling

if it isn't cooked on charcoal i don't want to eat it, it's fine cold or room temperature

my personal ideal for food is precisely balkans style:

- charcoal grill

- fermented preserves stored in the basement, sauerkraut, turshiya salata

- some fresh, in season veg grown in my backyard, the majority ends up as winter salad preserves

- some of the meat is pasteurised in jars for winter when the fresh meat is thin or generally for maintaining a 1+ year surplus of food

i want to be already feeding how i will feed when there is no power and no internet and no international freight transport or refrigeration

i don't think we are going to get uninterrupted service over the next 20 years