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[Cynthia12]

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[azurbanclucker]

5 minutes later these 2 were complaining to the course marshall about all the humans disturbing their sunbathing on the tee box. (second one is in the shade on the right side of the image about where the golfers are.

 

[KingD]

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[Pasha838]

At a "residential" level, wind is a good supplemental source, but unless you have wind every single day constantly, you need other producers. Solar+wind is a good option given enough batteries to store with. People fortunate enough to have a flowing source of water can add small water wheel generators to that too.

In the place where I live, a strong (relatively) wind blows constantly in spring and autumn. In summer, most often it is completely calm, and in winter the wind may or may not blow. In addition, in winter, relatively severe frost alternates with freezing rains (thaw and rain with ice), sometimes this leads to icing of windmills and breaking of the blades.
Those. the windmill will be effective only in spring and autumn. In winter, you will have to either remove it, or at least pour some winter oil into it in half with an antifreeze liquid.
If I were richer, I would have carried out a number of experiments long ago, but I am limited in funds and I implement all my ideas slowly. Right now I'm busy with the video surveillance system, I want to install many cameras to look at ducks, geese, goats and chickens. At the moment, I have an old DVR for 4 cameras installed, I want to replace it with a more modern one, so that there are at least 8, and preferably 16 cameras. True, I will soon have to digress from this, because around May 9 it is customary to plant potatoes here (now it is too early to do this here, because it was -8 C at night).

It is more difficult with solar batteries here, in summer they will be effective, in winter they will not, because in winter there are very short days. It gets light at 11 am and gets dark at 5 pm.
Of the rivers here there is only Klubish, this is a very small forest river, which sometimes dries up in summer so that there is nothing in it but wet sand at the bottom. Water in it happens only in places where beavers settle and build small dams. This small river is 3 km from my house. I often go there for a walk with the goats, because there grows a medicinal herb suitable for the prevention of parasitic diseases.

In case of a power outage, I have only banal generators on internal combustion engines - on gasoline, on gas. There are large powerful ones, there is a very small one, which I use for emergency connection of incubators so that eggs do not deteriorate during power outages. There are rechargeable batteries for these purposes, but they do not last forever, and if there is no electricity for a long time, then a generator must be started.

The equipment here is quite old, most often repaired )

 

[Pasha838]

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OMG, there are a lot of good boards for household purposes in these reels. I sometimes get a bunch of old brick pallets, I take them apart into boards and use them in building chicken coops or decorating goat pens.

Usually such pallets go here when buying bricks, paving slabs and other things.

 

[KingD]

OMG, there are a lot of good boards for household purposes in these reels. I sometimes get a bunch of old brick pallets, I take them apart into boards and use them in building chicken coops or decorating goat pens.

Usually such pallets go here when buying bricks, paving slabs and other things.

Yep! I often use pallets for building things. There's lots lots more where they came from though

 

[Cynthia12]

Amazing..