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hunter

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4. How do you do "full solar?" Especially in the winter.

Reply to Ontheboundry (Reply #1)

Mon May 13, 2024, 09:09 PM

May 2024

Propane? Diesel? Wood? Candles?

My own very rural great grandma was the wood stove and Aladdin oil lamp sort. When I was a kid she was still complaining about rural electrification. My great grandfather had enthusiastically embraced rural electrification, mostly to support his damned radio habit, by her account.

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