Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Nick Johnson"
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That's good to know about the (lack of) performance of generators in severe cold. It's not enough to have the generator. You also need to keep it out of the weather and the extreme cold. Some kind of shed. Some kind of way to buffer the cold temperature of the air that they're breathing.
I'd do something similar to what they're doing with their generators, but with more of a heat-exchanger on the exhaust, to keep the place warm when they're running, without making them breathe the cold, outside air, directly. Small heater to keep the shed above freezing or near freezing in any extreme cold conditions.
No fan of HOA's here or in Willow, but that drone overflight gave a distinctly white-trash sort of impression. They love the wild outdoors, but their own nests look pretty trashy. Not the guys featured in the video, who appear to be pretty organized and mindful, most of the overhead views suggested that if the same people stayed there for generations, there would be a large and growing junk yard adjacent to their houses.
I am a bit divided over urban sprawl. I sure would like to live a little farther out, but I'm in a small town, far from the big cities. Our valley of about 70 thousand, evenly dispersed on either side of the Snake, is the closest thing to a metropolis for about 6 hours in any direction. Anyway, if you're going to move to a remote location, it doesn't mean you can blight your little corner of it. The idea is to live with a small footprint, and try to blend in with Nature as much as possible. Or that'd be my idea.
Respect for people that close to the Arctic Circle, year-round. Just not for me. I'm a south-of-the-(Canadian)-border kind of guy. Well north of the tropics, but also well south of the Arctic. Still more north than south is my preference. I like the 4 seasons. I like some topographic relief (mountains).
Far enough south for really good passive geothermal potential (Oranges in the Snow type stuff) without much effort or cost, for passive heating and cooling, year-round.
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