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Old 02-16-2021, 05:12 PM   #19 (permalink)
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My 2 cents.

I would get a Generator that runs off of natural gas. Just like you never lost heat you wouldn’t lose power either because natural gas rarely stops flowing through the pipes unless there’s an earthquake. Even then you could change the orifice and run on LPG. Natural gas engines run super clean, require very little maintenance and usually start easily.
While I'm a fan of NG generators we are in the Cascadia subduction zone that spits out 9 - 10 magnitude earthquakes on occasion. The last Cascadia earthquake was in 1700.

If I was redpoint I would want a LPG back-up or a way to store some of the his solar energy from that new system he installed.
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