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Cool Thanks!!! Was trying to finish up a rush project & didn't catch all of it.
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Anybody know a good book on how to connect a gas powered generator to ones homes? I mean youknow, electricity 101. Thanks. I am planning to get off the grid this year in more ways than one.
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Cappy, what type of generator are you installing?
You just need a subpanel and transfer switch more or less.
I use a automatic switch gear because that is what I am used to working on and testing
I like the LP/NG Generac and got a good deal plus installation.
Size it for the whole house and you will never look back.
With the auto switch it is a smooth transition when the power goes out.
You just need a subpanel and transfer switch more or less.
I use a automatic switch gear because that is what I am used to working on and testing
I like the LP/NG Generac and got a good deal plus installation.
Size it for the whole house and you will never look back.
With the auto switch it is a smooth transition when the power goes out.
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texastee2007 said:
Depends where you live, I can't have wind because of height restrictions, Solar is always good but storage battery costs and upkeep, plus the fact that with snow on top or bad weather not much charging going on. A LP/NG generator with is pretty flexible, If your NG is stopped you can switch over to the large LP tank. If that gets empty then I have a connector to go to the smaller ones. If it goes on that long it's fireplace/candle time.
It's a short term solution for me, Maybe a generator/solar combo would work better long term and if it got that bad maybe having a wind turbine stored because by then who would care about restrictions.
Gives me something to thing about, I have been thinking about putting some amorphous solar panels
(works in overcast and low sun days) and a small wind generator, (I saw one on Amazon for about 500
bucks) in storage. Maybe some empty batteries and a some containers of sulfuric acid and distilled
water to mix when I need the batteries. I can get that from napa.
The battery issue is what stopped me from using them as a short term solution, but for long term I thing having everything in storage would be a doable thing. I would have all the time in the world to hook it up
Got to do some more research on this, thanks
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TheDane said:Drink less coffee and beers in the evening, Cappy ...
... and you´ll sleep better at night !
I always sleep sound...knowing the All Volunteer Danish Army is on High (Cannabis) Alert....
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The sun unleashed its strongest solar flare of the year Sunday, and the cloud of radiation it spewed will hit Earth's magnetic field Tuesday, NASA said.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a brief but intense flash signaling the ejection of a cloud of ultraviolet radiation.
The source of the flare, sunspot 1158, is growing rapidly, the observatory reported.
Lookout 2012!
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a brief but intense flash signaling the ejection of a cloud of ultraviolet radiation.
The source of the flare, sunspot 1158, is growing rapidly, the observatory reported.
Lookout 2012!
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Wonder if this will get all the global warming group fired up again? 
I think I'll just make me up another tin foil hat, and tin foil booties for the cat. Wonder if I should run a ground wire to him? 
On a serious note, will this flare affect RF transmissions? Remember back in the old CB days we'd have great fun collecting QSL contacts when the skip was in. A KW & two moonraker sixes, could talk to the moon if the guys in Florida would shut up.
I think I'll just make me up another tin foil hat, and tin foil booties for the cat. Wonder if I should run a ground wire to him? On a serious note, will this flare affect RF transmissions? Remember back in the old CB days we'd have great fun collecting QSL contacts when the skip was in. A KW & two moonraker sixes, could talk to the moon if the guys in Florida would shut up.
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It seems that we all have a little more time before the end. 
http://www.canada.com/technology/Doomsday+Clock+moved+back+minute/2441796/story.html
http://www.canada.com/technology/Doomsday+Clock+moved+back+minute/2441796/story.html
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texastee2007 said:
Not to worry, the dream was sparked by the pots & pans sliding out from under the sink in themiddle of thenight.
NOTE: faucet leaks don't qualify as a tsunami - er ah... In most cases 
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A rifel a shotgun and a 4 wheel drive, and this country boy will survive. Bob
Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp
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Hi Tex luv: In this case you can relax. the rods are inserted up, vertically, with power, no power and they slide out and down automatically shutting down the reaction. Even without the cooling, the Nuclear reaction is stopped and it can't get hotter, only cooler. So unless the core building is breached, there is no danger except for no power to the city and people trapped in elevators etc.
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Hey ya'll no one has even mentioned the good book, yes the Bible look at the book of Luke Chp 21 Verse 5. His words not mine. The Plumber.
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tex luv: you posted -->It is nice to hear from someone who knows how these things work
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Don Jose de La Mancha?
tex luv: you posted -->It is nice to hear from someone who knows how these things work
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Who is that ??
Don Jose de La Mancha?
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Cappy Z. said:
I feel this way every time I eat at KFC
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Hi tex luv -->
Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to have caused a reactor meltdown.
The key piece of technology in a nuclear reactor is the control rods. Nuclear fuel generates neutrons; controlling the flow and production rate of these neutrons is what generates heat, and from the heat, electricity. Control rods absorb neutrons — the rods slide in and out of the fuel mass to regulate neutron emission, and with it, heat and electricity generation.
A meltdown occurs when the control rods fail to contain the neutron emission and the heat levels inside the reactor thus rise to a point that the fuel itself melts, generally temperatures in excess of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, causing uncontrolled radiation-generating reactions and making approaching the reactor incredibly hazardous. A meltdown does not necessarily mean a nuclear disaster. As long as the reactor core, which is specifically designed to contain high levels of heat, pressure and radiation, remains intact, the melted fuel can be dealt with. If the core breaches but the containment facility built around the core remains intact, the melted fuel can still be dealt with — typically entombed within specialized concrete — but the cost and difficulty of such containment increases exponentially.
(click here to enlarge image)
However, the earthquake in Japan, in addition to damaging the ability of the control rods to regulate the fuel — and the reactor’s coolant system — appears to have damaged the containment facility, and the explosion almost certainly did. There have been reports of “white smoke,” perhaps burning concrete, coming from the scene of the explosion, indicating a containment breach and the almost certain escape of significant amounts of radiation.
At this point, events in Japan bear many similarities to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Reports indicate that up to 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) of the reactor fuel was exposed. The reactor fuel appears to have at least partially melted, and the subsequent explosion has shattered the walls and roof of the containment vessel — and likely the remaining useful parts of the control and coolant systems.
(click here to enlarge image)
And so now the question is simple: Did the floor of the containment vessel crack? If not, the situation can still be salvaged by somehow re-containing the nuclear core. But if the floor has cracked, it is highly likely that the melting fuel will burn through the floor of the containment system and enter the ground. This has never happened before but has always been the nightmare scenario for a nuclear power event — in this scenario, containment goes from being merely dangerous, time consuming and expensive to nearly impossible.
Radiation exposure for the average individual is 620 millirems per year, split about evenly between manmade and natural sources. The firefighters who served at the Chernobyl plant were exposed to between 80,000 and 1.6 million millirems. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates that exposure to 375,000 to 500,000 millirems would be sufficient to cause death within three months for half of those exposed. A 30-kilometer-radius (19 miles) no-go zone remains at Chernobyl to this day. Japan’s troubled reactor site is about 300 kilometers from Tokyo.
The latest report from the damaged power plant indicated that exposure rates outside the plant were at about 620 millirems per hour, though it is not clear whether that report came before or after the reactor’s containment structure exploded.
Read more: Red Alert: Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Plant | STRATFOR
Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to have caused a reactor meltdown.
The key piece of technology in a nuclear reactor is the control rods. Nuclear fuel generates neutrons; controlling the flow and production rate of these neutrons is what generates heat, and from the heat, electricity. Control rods absorb neutrons — the rods slide in and out of the fuel mass to regulate neutron emission, and with it, heat and electricity generation.
A meltdown occurs when the control rods fail to contain the neutron emission and the heat levels inside the reactor thus rise to a point that the fuel itself melts, generally temperatures in excess of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, causing uncontrolled radiation-generating reactions and making approaching the reactor incredibly hazardous. A meltdown does not necessarily mean a nuclear disaster. As long as the reactor core, which is specifically designed to contain high levels of heat, pressure and radiation, remains intact, the melted fuel can be dealt with. If the core breaches but the containment facility built around the core remains intact, the melted fuel can still be dealt with — typically entombed within specialized concrete — but the cost and difficulty of such containment increases exponentially.
(click here to enlarge image)
However, the earthquake in Japan, in addition to damaging the ability of the control rods to regulate the fuel — and the reactor’s coolant system — appears to have damaged the containment facility, and the explosion almost certainly did. There have been reports of “white smoke,” perhaps burning concrete, coming from the scene of the explosion, indicating a containment breach and the almost certain escape of significant amounts of radiation.
At this point, events in Japan bear many similarities to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Reports indicate that up to 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) of the reactor fuel was exposed. The reactor fuel appears to have at least partially melted, and the subsequent explosion has shattered the walls and roof of the containment vessel — and likely the remaining useful parts of the control and coolant systems.
(click here to enlarge image)
And so now the question is simple: Did the floor of the containment vessel crack? If not, the situation can still be salvaged by somehow re-containing the nuclear core. But if the floor has cracked, it is highly likely that the melting fuel will burn through the floor of the containment system and enter the ground. This has never happened before but has always been the nightmare scenario for a nuclear power event — in this scenario, containment goes from being merely dangerous, time consuming and expensive to nearly impossible.
Radiation exposure for the average individual is 620 millirems per year, split about evenly between manmade and natural sources. The firefighters who served at the Chernobyl plant were exposed to between 80,000 and 1.6 million millirems. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates that exposure to 375,000 to 500,000 millirems would be sufficient to cause death within three months for half of those exposed. A 30-kilometer-radius (19 miles) no-go zone remains at Chernobyl to this day. Japan’s troubled reactor site is about 300 kilometers from Tokyo.
The latest report from the damaged power plant indicated that exposure rates outside the plant were at about 620 millirems per hour, though it is not clear whether that report came before or after the reactor’s containment structure exploded.
Read more: Red Alert: Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Plant | STRATFOR
Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp
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Hi tex luv again : a partial melt down is now semi confirmed with a second plant in cooling troubles. So much for your Nuclear expert's data snifff.
Don Jose de La Mancha (formerly of tex's nuclear commission).
Don Jose de La Mancha (formerly of tex's nuclear commission).
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looks like the Mother Earth is changing sides ,hate when that happens... 
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"bio tinkering"---with our seed base --(that the major mega farm types do ) ---means that just about all of america's farmers are all using the same "high yeild" genetic type seed stock * that will all have the same genetic strong points (high yeild) but they will all have the same weakness"s as well--- *****what if a certain type of crop disease hits those super yeild type seed stock type plants that they have no proper "genetic" defense to --it will then wipe out massive amounts of that crop -- (say corn for exsample which is vital -- since it is used for human food, animal feed and as a 10% corn alcohol "additive " to our gasoline as well--- then we got major problems folks)-- having a more bio diverse crop seed base would produce less crops maybe but would most likely protect us from the above issue.
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Texastee2007!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boy did your dream nail this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My fear is the earth's axis has been tilted...again (Chili)..
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