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A diesel in the shed

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Posted By: DVC, 4/22/2024 9:56:01 AM

You can have your solar panels and your turbines on the hills; You can use the warmth of sunshine to reduce your heating bills. You can dream you’re self-sufficient as you weed your vegie bed; As long as you make sure to keep A diesel in the shed When I was a kid living on a small dairy farm in Queensland, we relied on green energy -- horses and human muscles provided most motive power firewood and beeswax candles supplied heat and light; a windmill pumped water and the sun provided solar energy for drying clothes and growing crops, vegies, and pastures. The only “non-green” energy used was a bit of kerosene

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A report on the joys of the conversion from coal to wonderful "green energy" from down under.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Alecto2 4/22/2024 11:32:44 AM (No. 1704028)
Doncha know, the hidden agenda is saving the planet by killing off the humans. The ultimate CO2 reduction.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 4/22/2024 11:56:58 AM (No. 1704042)
There is a Tesla supercharging station just off I-5 in Harris Ranch CA, pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Lots of solar panels to capture the desert sunlight (and that's fine) but also a nearby building with diesel generators - you know, just in case.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 4/22/2024 12:43:14 PM (No. 1704077)
Re #2, you can be certain that when some Tesla owner hooks up, the diesel lights off. Those solar panels are just window dressing unless they cover about 5-10 acres. I've been considering getting a diesel generator, since diesel fuel has historically been good in storage for a very long time, at least four or five years. But, like modern gas, the current diesel is more iffy stuff, blended up from who knows what, and very possibly not as stable as it used to be in storage. In the 70s I stored 55 gallons of gas, gradually using it up over about three years, no issues with it, since the 'gas shortage' made things damned inconvenient at times, and I could top off my VW tank with 3-5 gallons when needed. Today, that gas would be very iffy condition after only a year, although no-ethanol gas lasts better. And modern diesel engines have been made far, far more complex and less durable than they used to be in the 60s and up until the middle 90s due to EPA regs. Current diesels are pretty much the same sort of electronic computerized nightmares that autos have become. Old diesels were extremely simple engines, totally mechanical injectors and no ignition system or spark plugs. Very simple. Not so these modern diesels, and the final insult is the required injection of "blue goop" and the "after filters" which routinely clog up and have to be removed, which is probably illegal in places like California. If you r"blue goop" tank runs out, the car will NOT start and run. Another "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that." moment.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: JackBurton 4/22/2024 12:48:13 PM (No. 1704080)
gotta get me one of those.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: coyote 4/22/2024 2:59:14 PM (No. 1704133)
Hey, didn't I say the greenies were reactionaries.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: franq 4/22/2024 3:26:36 PM (No. 1704151)
Not only that, #3, but modern diesels require diesel perfume, aka DEF. A stroke of marketing genius if there ever was one. Akin to the "smog pump" of the '70s, whose only purpose was to dilute the exhaust with atmospheric gas. Don't get me started on GDI, or engines that shut down cylinders. I have seen the fiasco first hand with my kid's vehicles.
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