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As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
As I type this, here am I waiting on a miracle from God.
I wanted to do something productive, helpful and enjoyable though as I hate the cold, wind, snow, HAARP and ...........the list is too long.
PB wrote and I thought I would make some suggestions and actually some fixes, as numbers of you will probably have like problems in the world to come in all of it's adventures.
Meet you on the other side.
Hello Lame Cherry,I guess it's time to start thinking about methods to generate electricity. Here in Maine, our electric rates went up 83% as of Jan 1st. My bill was $621 for January. Insane. January is always a bad month. but before it was manageable. I normally use an electric heater to add some heat to one of my rooms where I don't have hot water baseboard. Time to rethink heating. Also, this was the first winter for the chickens and January was a deep freeze, so I put a couple of 250W heat lamps in the coop. That turned out to be expensive. Guess I need to make the coop a little less breezy and add a bit of foam insulation (not to make it air tight, of course) maybe around the laying boxes and ceiling anyway. .The chickens (17) are going through a 50lb bag of feed a week at a cost of about $18. Think I may have to consider growing their winter feed. Some of them started laying a couple of weeks ago. Just getting 4 eggs/day at this point. I suppose I don't need 15 layers (that was the minimum order and they threw in 2 extras). I could always sell off half.Take care and God Bless,PB
When you live in the northern tier, you have to find ways to not fund the 1% who have addicted you to cheap energy which is now making you sell your soul.
I have not gotten into anything solar yet as too busy dealing with poverty, but our power went up too, just like everyone elses due to Obama forcing half of your power to come from subsidized wind and solar which is as you can see EXPENSIVE.
I have rules. I use very little electricity and yes am going to look at grid things as I do have books on the subject and discussed this earth power stuff with Richard and Stephanie. I would assume PB has a heat pump due to the high electric bills.
What I have is Richard and Stephanie's furnace which is propane. We worked out asses off for the past two years in digging out the cellar, building a chimney and cutting wood. Due to the HAARP assault I was out on Friday, cutting about a half of cord of wood just to be sure if March has the lights go out.
Our propane bill for the past 6 weeks was 165 gallons of fuel. It was 20 below, lots of HAARP wind and lots of fatigue, but that wood stove in the cellar has saved us around 500 dollars this winter by supplemental heating. When the wood stove is doing it's work, the propane does not burn and the fan is not burning electricity running.
People are going to have to rethink how they use electricity as the cartel is going to have you lose your home in bills.
Bob sent me a site which I have not had the chance to as being HAARP bound dealing with a wood alcohol system. Just something to keep in mind.
The real solutions here are chickens. I have people here who have chickens laying all year. Their secret is cracked corn and an egg layer. They also add a molasses block.for high energy as a chicken does not lay when it is trying to keep warm to live.
I buy our eggs as it is cheaper yet in the winter than dealing with the costs of additional feed, and yes I run through about a bag and a half of cracked corn at 11 dollars a bag.
I'm trying to raise our own feed or convert to farmers who have corn, and that should make things much cheaper. We picked up corn dumped by farmers too busy to pick up spills and that is what I was feeding the chickens out side who were too wild to catch.
I read a blog long ago about chickens in Maine. The people there built a straw or hay bale small shed and that kept them warm. OK you build a frame, cover it with chicken wire so that the mink, coons, and whatever can not dig in. Make the room A frame, cover it with plastic and put bales on top and leave the snow on it as insulation. You can make a fish house breathe hole as my one coup gets damp with chicken breath.
A 100 watt lightbulb keeps things from freezing in bad weather. Do not burn heat lamps as it just eats your money. I have banties, Sumatras and English Games. No heat and am thankful even in a tinned in goat milking shed they have been singing all winter. I have to check on them this week for the cold, but they were doing fine. A few started laying even which surprised me.
If you have land, you need a farmer who could plant and harvest an acre or two of oats. Oats is like 50 to 100 bushels and acre. Yes it will cost, but the feed will be cheaper and farmers who like eggs tend to be accommodate you in your ideas. Just feed corn when it hits anything below 10 degrees. Otherwise oats will get you there.
My chickens like the cattle are not money makers. They are there for when the meltdown comes. I now have chickens which will set on eggs, so no incubator and they are hardy. While most people were jacking off to porn I have been preparing. That is what virgins with oil lamps do.
To get through this winter, I would find some farmer who has grain or find a grain elevator, They do have things like screenings. Saying something like, "I got these damned chickens and they are costing money, do you have anything I could feed them that would be cheap". You might need some plastic barrels to haul the stuff, but after being smarted off to about eating them instead would be cheaper, you will probably have them solve your problem with something that will work.
Ok chickens sheltered, chickens fed, chickens safe.......that is chickens solved.
For electric, I unplug most things. I have to run an air filter, the furnace fan, but otherwise stuff is plugged in only when I use it.....yes I forgot the fridge and freezer, but I sparingly use hot water as that is costly and I never get to enjoy laying in front of an electric heater any more which I really need.
Oh one more thing, if you have access to east coast anthracite coal, probably is your salvation as your auxiliary heat. I would use it here, but no access to it, but you get 12 hour burns. Better than 90 minute burns in the barrel stove.
People are going to have to learn all this shit to survive. I had these 3 geniuses last week talking about how people would not survive without electric. I looked at them and thought, "Ok genius one asked me what I wanted a coal stove for. Genius 2 has his wood stove IN THE GARAGE unhooked. Genius 3 who is the egg laying guy, has no stockpile of wood cut or any means to deal with lights going out". These three are going to be among the first going tits up.
It started raining two years ago. You should have got your shit worked out then. I was delayed and am pissed, but the Ark's door is closed, so people better get things done in the trying times as it will get worse.
Only thing I could think of is check junk yard and try Craiglist to find things that will not cost you and a psycho who will not chop off your head.
PS: Can't do a hell of allot in winter. All you can do now is plan what you will do when spring comes and hope for a good season then or more people dropping dead so you can just find their things for your benefit.
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