LoL I do not know what caused the blackouts in Texas, I have seen articles blaming everything, I think each sector is trying to blame the other.
That is cool though that you can power when the power is out through your car. I think that is what you meant. The car can power the house.
And I know you have back up power generation at your place. You live in the boonies, you need that there, especially in the dead of winter. That is planning ahead!
I don't know what the hell is wrong with me today, I just tried to send a text to one of my women saying 'I Love you' and it went to one of my buddies instead of who I meant it for, he texted me back, what the fuck?
Yeah, you can use the car as a store of energy. It's awesome.
Also, if shit hits the fan, it's a fuck of a lot easier to generate electricity than it is to generate gasoline, or even diesel.
To generate electricity, you need to spin iron inside a ring of copper. So, anything that's in motion constantly will work - from wind to water.
There is an electrician supply company in my area that has a billboard near the river that they installed a turbine in the river and whenever the power goes out at night their sign is the only thing all lit up. So yeah I do know, even today, that you can produce electricity by spinning things LoL
If I lived elsewhere, like the ME, then oil would be easier to refine. In Maine, ain't no oil to refine. There's no natural gas. So, electricity it is. I could use corn oil and refine it for diesel use.
If we were more intelligent, we'd use nuclear energy.
Watt for watt, nuclear energy is safer than gas or coal - by a huge margin, and that includes the nuclear power generation accidents we've had. Even after Chernobyl and Fukushima, it's STILL fucking safer.
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