12-01-2021, 09:03 AM
(12-01-2021, 08:54 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: It will impact electricity generation. That may have knock-on effects for heating (gas heaters need electricity to run, as do the pumps that move hot water through radiators).
The "heating challenge" will be to get enough natural gas to keep residences able to run heating (and not have it cost a lot more than it already does).
I've got a fireplace. No electricity needed. A lot of the house would be cold, but beats freezing to death.
But yeah, shutting off the nuke plants ... another knee-jerk decision of the chancellor who ran Germany into the ground in her 16 year time in office.
Speaking of cold, we got our first snowfall yesterday. Didn't stick but the wind in the evening felt rather icy.
Cheers
My gas heater needs electricity for the spark to light the pilot initially (unless I get really brave or desperate, and use a match), but once liit it's good to go, and has a pressure gas feed, It's the only thing that will keep me from freezing if the lights go out, because I already lit the pilot for the year.
They just filled my tank this morning, so I should be good to go for a bit. I've got woods all around me for firewood, but no wood heater. I should rectify that...
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’