A reader recently emailed me and asked about choosing a generator. She in particular wanted to understand the differences in fuel types. So I thought instead of just sending her a reply directly I’d post my response here so everyone benefits! The broad answer is that there are two main things to consider when choosing [...]
Well, that time of year is here again. Summer is over, fall has arrived, and winter is on its way. In our neck of the woods that doesn’t usually include snowfall measured in feet, but we’re pretty well guaranteed a few nice storms. In fact, the winter storm survival scenario I wrote about was based [...]
This post is a hands on how-to which will show you how to size and build your own emergency power system. We’ll talk about what we want to power with the system, and then design an appropriately sized power system. We’ll talk about how to use it in an emergency and how to keep it [...]
I had an interesting conversation via email with one of my readers this week. She was responding to my winter storm scenario and wanted to know more about alternate power arrangements in the case of a grid failure. We ran through some scenarios and I explained to her HOW to go about figuring all this [...]
