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For safety gas needs to be shut off during many emergencies. Solar panels and battery backups are probably better as they are less dangerous and less prone to
by aeternum 5y ago
For safety gas needs to be shut off during many emergencies. Solar panels and battery backups are probably better as they are less dangerous and less prone to common-mode failures than gas. As you mention, a woodpile is also a nice low-tech and low-risk backup.
- shadilay 5y agoMost solar installs are grid tied and add no emergency redundancy.
- desine 5y agoUnless you have a modicum of electrical knowledge, a willingness to break some small safety regulations/laws, or lacking the former, a thirst for danger
- shadilay 5y agoI like most rational people have no desire to be fined by my cities code compliance officers.
- aeternum 5y agoPowerwall can be both grid-tied and allows emergency redundancy. It disconnects from grid during an outage.