Comment on Need to get off the grid fast. Is a gas or diesel generator my best option?

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, I meant that normally people focused on being able to live off the grid are often aggressive towards green energy proponents and vice versa, because, well, gasoline and diesel fuel and all that are good to be autonomous, but very, very not green. I’m thinking of survivalist types.

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  • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly not even that autonomous - there are a lot of ways to make electricity as an individual, making gasoline is much harder (diesel or something close enough maybe but it’s still going to be an ongoing project). Hard to be off grid if you’re making trips to the gas station

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    • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m favoring diesel at the moment for a few reasons:

      • I have a large mazut tank which could store diesel. Although it has mold or something growing in it so I’m not sure if it needs to be cleaned (or whether cleaning it is even possible)

      • Mazut and diesel may be compatible (not sure). That is, maybe a diesel generator can burn mazut or perhaps the mazut furnice can burn diesel. Guess I should find out how different they are.

      • Biodiesel can be made in a basement from waste cooking oil and lye.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Rather “asynchronous supply” than “off grid”, yes.

      I’d argue that as an individual you’ll find early XIX century approaches, like from Jules Verne’s books sans possessing all the industrial knowledge of contemporary humanity.

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