At home is pretty much guaranteed to by hydro if it's from the mains. But, I just rely on solar and wind. They work without failing.
If my power is out more than 7 days, I have a giant diesel generator that will power my entire house just fine. It shares a tank with my furnace that burns fuel oil (kerosene) - which burns just fine in my generator. It's a giant 5000 gallon in-ground tank. I had to get a special permit for it.
5000 gallons? That is a huge fucking tank. Back when I was married and we lived on the shore of the bay in a rural area we had a home that the furnace ran on fuel oil and the tank in the basement was only 500 gallons.
It's a giant tank that's in-ground, wrapped in concrete and some rubber membrane, and shit like that. It had to get a permit and be inspected.
After all, if I have a rough winter how is the giant fucking truck full of flammable fucking liquid going to get to my house?
Which is pretty much what I wrote on my permit application.
It must have worked! You will probably have to replace the tank due to corrosion at some point I would imagine. I don't know how long they last. Though the tank in the basement of that house I used to live in was probably installed when they built the house, It would never fit through the door and down the steps
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