hauling lectric

HAULING LECTRIC

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If you don’t like today’s article, it is all Idaho Homesteaders fault, as she inspired the idea. It is a simple and pure idea, as are most of mine, and I won’t take up too much of our time with it. After all, I am impatient to begin blathering about one of my two favorite B’s, books or stupid bitches. But for now, I must give you a doomer or prepper themed idea so that I can continue to be the worlds most annoying gadfly of the survivalist movement. As much fun as politics ( they are all thieves and sodimizers! ) or economics ( we are all going to die as resources run out! ) or even anthropology ( fems were genetically programmed to enjoy being pregnant and chained to the kitchen stove! ) are to talk about, I do try to stay focused on getting ready for the stewpot. The others are just bonuses. ID said that the planned back forty cabin ( this is what totally prepped individuals do, they invent projects that are unneeded but fun ) was going to have solar panels but the location was mostly shaded by trees. Or maybe it was a recessed cave into a cliff, I don’t know. Something about shade. So, the panels weren’t going to produce much in the way of power. Hence, the interest in our discussion on energy sipping LED 12v bulbs.

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Now, I’m sure this has already occurred to our Idaho reader. I’m not implying she has her head up her ass. Of course, not knowing all circumstances, I’m just throwing an idea out there whether it was already discounted or not. This could be a “slap on the forehead, I could have had a V8” idea, or it could be a “you dumbass, I already thought of that” idea. Either way, my ego is already big enough I just naturally assume we all know I can pull great ideas out of my backside all day long, but not so fragile that I care too much when I’m cursed for my overlooking the obvious. I overlook the obvious as a general policy. Anything of a mechanical or material nature, anything not of an abstract nature, usually baffles me. Even knowing the third law of thermodynamics, I still can’t recognize intuitively when I’m violating it. Anyway, having said nothing for one third of this piece, here it is. Hauling electricity. I understand that most of us are overgrown quivering piles of weak jello, unable to do much of anything of a physical nature. Barely able to lean your considerable weight into the toilet flushing handle, you wouldn’t dream of actually having to haul over a bucket of wood shavings or ashes to sprinkle on a composting toilet. Barely able to lift your flabby extremities over your head to raise your hand when the Starbucks Battista hollers out that the double decaf soy latte is ready, you certainly wouldn’t carry forty pounds of water up to a cabin.

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I will be the first to admit that hauling anything sucks. Hauling sewage into the RV dump is gross and heavy. Hauling water to the home is a never ending chore. Hauling water from the storage tank to the stove or tub or sink grows old. But if you’ve grown past the need to have everything ready at the convenience of a push button ( dark? Powers flows mysteriously at the flick of a switch. Took a dookie? Waste magically disappears at the push of a handle. Cold? Oil flows, seemingly on its own, from the middle east [ say, isn’t that where our troops are? Gee, I wonder if that could somehow be connected? ] to your boiler. Hungry? A nice man brings feed pellets with one phone call ) then you are used to hauling. Haul water. It is cheaper than ten grand for a well, three grand for a tank, five thousand bucks for panels to pump the water. Eighteen grand for push button instantaneous gratification, eight bucks for a manual labor bucket. Haul wood. For some of you it is nearly free. A tank full of oil, a furnace and the panels needed to run the blowers, no where near free. So why not haul electricity?

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Pick a clear sunny spot. Set up your solar panels. Plug in your battery, or batteries. Charge. Unhook, hook up another set, take the charged batteries to the cabin either by hand, in a wheelbarrow or on a dolly ( depending on your age and the surface conditions ). You just switch out sets. If you are only using a little power, you can do this weekly ( on the assumption one battery lasts two weeks drawing it half way down, you have an extra week in case of clouds ). A three watt LED can be run five hours a day for two weeks and only drain a small amp battery ( remember, only use marine batteries rather than auto batteries- the auto is destroyed by deep draw downs ) one quarter of the way down ( cold cranking amp rating, divided by one tenth for a rough estimate of useable amps [ a 400 amp cold crank gives you 40 amps of power before being drawn half way down ], and there are 14 watts in an amp, call it ten for ease of calculation, so 400 watts ). The easy way to do this of course, is to take the cold amp rating ( not the higher rating which is at 32 degrees, the lower one for below zero ) and that is your watts useable if you are only drawing the battery down half way before charging.

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If you play around at figuring this out, I’m sure you’ll come up with two easy access storage boxes for these batteries, and an easy way to connect/disconnect them ( do they make alligator clips big enough for the smaller posts on a marine battery? ). If you are getting five times the sun by moving your panels away from the dwelling, that means you can either buy less panels or use more juice. I’d say the minor inconvenience is well worth it.

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Stupid humping bitches in Florida! A month later, they decide to go back to child support withholding. I mean, I expected it. I always expect to get knocked down and forcibly violated without lubrication ( the Army was universally described as The Big Green Weenie by the malcontents ). Staying paranoid, you still suffer from getting screwed, but it is nice to not be surprised, hence not freaked out or stressed. But one month later? If you are going to screw someone, do it right. Get their hopes up after a half a year. Then change your mind. By only waiting a month, it doesn’t hurt me at all, and makes Florida look like a bunch of stupid bitches. Where do they recruit their civil servants? Goodwill Industries ( for those sheltered or foreign, this is a thrift store workforce comprised of retards )? Either that, or the bottom of the class from colleges ( college turns you into an idiot, and those needing help to pass are so stupid only racial quotas get them a degree )? Otherwise, the only thing I can think of is that the boss lady there is so friggin fat that no one will mount and service her. She blackmailed a worker to do so against his will, but he was so traumatized from these repeated copulations that he went out and purposely got a venereal disease from a hooker. This traveled to his brain, causing insanity. Hence, he was able to ignore the reality of porking this disgusting greasy lard ass. Of course, he also passed on this disease, so now something like twenty percent of the work force in the child support enforcement office is insane and incompetent, which I am mistaking for stupidity. The good news is, we now officially have a slight chance of avoiding a complete economic collapse until next summer ( no guarantee, but the odds are increased ), since the last child support payment is also when it all falls apart ( so I’m forever denied seeing any of my own money ). I will die in the stewpot a slightly happier man knowing that ex wife #2 is going to be brutally abused sexually before being put in the stewpot herself ( she carries a few extra pounds ), and that every piece of diseased offal working for Florida will lose their pensions and their lives. Oh, it ain’t worth a hundred grand, but at least I’m getting something out of it. ( For the newbies, or FemiNazi’s- I’m pissed because I am supporting the wife rather than my adult children, and this is after I put the bitch through school to be a pilot. The support has always been about retribution rather than need ). You have been warned- no later than early next summer, the end is nigh.

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