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The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch / @TenaciousRanch / Steampunk Penny / Penellope Logue / Phillip Matthew Logue - Don't cry because it ended, laugh because it's still getting worse.
Honestly if you're going to static OTG the correct thing to do is have a water source you can run a hydro turbine from. Hydropower solves your water and your power in one go. Only down side is cost & install, but if you have proper non-seasonal spring you have 24/7 power. And if you're going super ghetto, you can convert an old washing machine motor into your dynamo.
If your spring is seasonal, or not enough flow, you can use an upstream water tank with a solar/wind powered pump to act like a battery; the pump sends water to uphill storage. When you need to run your hydro, you drain the tank.
I'm not sure how these troons are running their HVAC but investing in a good geothermal heat pump will also save you tons on heating/cooling. The downside is that it usually can only move so much thermal energy - you won't freeze or fry, but it you'll need a sweater in the winter and cool drink in the summer.
If they have ANY sort of cooling system installed in that house, even a window swamp cooler, running off a generator then they're even more stupid than I ever thought possible.
so basically what i am getting at this point: the house is gonna catch on fire and kevvie is gonna be screaming from high heavens for everyone to save his toys.
also the fact that 90% of the tranch main twitter is them gloating on their purchases just drives home the grift for me tbh
all of their dogs need a SERIOUS brushing it makes me so mad give me the hats. some of her teeth seem to be hidden by her lip/gums whatever but it looks like she only has a few on them on that side?
I propose something more realistic. The only reason the rover would be there would be to probe some ones stinkditch to figure out why the air is so foul.
Right, my question is more along the lines of application. Are we talking about running power directly from the solar panels to the appliances in order to reduce conversion loss? Does it still need some kind of transformer so the fridge (or whatever) doesn't melt/explode?
Bit of a tangent, from memory and no guarantee to be correct:
DC is nice because it's a constant current. However, it is physically not easy to change the voltage of DC. With AC you can use transformers, with DC you need more complicated and lossy setups. The thing is, a DC grid sounds nice at first, but since you can't easily change the voltage (and back when power grids were established they really couldn't do it at all without massive mechanical inverters), you'll run into problems with your power. Power is Voltage times Amperage. Reasonable appliance voltage is, dunno, 12V DC. Let's say you need about 100W of power at all times. That means the power grid needs to deliver about 8A. Just for you. The more power is needed, the more amps the grid must carry, and the worse it gets. The Power grid must contain MASSIVE conductors just for that. It works on a short range, maybe, but you can't really do it for a city. To deliver the power, you need to increase the voltage, but that makes it harder for the house grids and appliances.
AC has the advantage that it can be easily transformed thanks to the magic of induction. So the larger grid can run on many thousands of volts (and carry the power with it) and be easily transformed to 230V (or those girly 120V you got in the colonies), and then to whatever is needed in the house.
There should be a lot of appliances ready made for 12V DC, probably? Like, all the camping gear and shit, the stuff explicitly made to be run on car batteries and solar.
But of course, that doesn't include a massive gaming rig, a flat screen, and their Nintendo Switches and whatnot.
God, the tranchers are an incompetent bunch. Why try and live off-grid when they're clearly a bunch of terminally-online city slickers? Surely you could have found a ranch somewhere with at least grid connection?
And an electric car on top of that. That's the best. They're gonna take days and weeks to get it charged for even one trip to the store unless they're getting a dedicated solar/wind and battery system just for the car.
Honestly, they'd be better off taking one of their tardtrucks, throwing out the drive train, slapping an electric motor in it, and filling the bed with lead-acid batteries that they can hook directly to their solar system and use as another storage system. Probably cheaper, too, but it would require skill and time.
Man, I'm looking at this site and half this stuff seems like a complete no brainer to have out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with shaky electricity and supply lines (At the rate they eat vehicles, I wouldn't rely on going into town for bread on the regular). Its not like they're short on griftbucks, they really don't have an excuse.
Exactly. I'm not even saying "save the Earth," just "hey, fellas, our electricity is unreliable, let's plan ahead."
(With a side of "if you have to consoom, why not at least buy something useful?" A pretty rifle is at least more useful than a Transformer, but you only need so many guns. How about diversifying with a hand-powered washing machine, in pastel colors?)
Gun sperging, soil sperging, electricity sperging, livestock sperging, yarn sperging, car sperging... each sperg sesh produces at least like 10 pages of concentrated autism so it's no surprise. And very educational. This thread is a safe sperg space.
I just want to take this moment to thank everyone who provides such immense knowledge about all the aforementioned spergeries. If only the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch of Colorado would take the time to read it all.
And buy fucking something to improve the lives and wellbeing of their animals
Electric and hybrid cars tend to be a very poor choice for country driving. They are heavy for their size, have low ground clearance and skinny tyres, everything you need to get stuck in the mud or rip off your exhaust on a protruding rock. They also tend to have delicate suspensions that are quickly destroyed by rough country dirt roads, and that's assuming you're not dumb enough to go off-road in them which will kill them in literal minutes. A friend of mine took their Civic hybrid on a two week holiday to a place that was accessed by a half-mile dirt track. The car's tracking was visibly off after a couple of days and before the two weeks were up the suspension broke completely and it had to be hauled away on a low-loader.
If they have ANY sort of cooling system installed in that house, even a window swamp cooler, running off a generator then they're even more stupid than I ever thought possible.
Eh, I think it's fine. It's a weird picture with the gums but in my professional experience dealing with farm dogs, if it doesn't have a tire track on it's neck, crocodile latched around it's back, or has somehow surrounded itself with a family of angry otters, it's doing okay.
The other teeth look perfectly healthy, and you aren't going to lose teeth that young to anything short of a cinderblock to the mouth. It's probably because it's a Golden, and those things are about as inbred as socially anxious clan of rednecks, so something hasn't come in.
I will say those dogs have terrible allergies though. Good thing there's no grass on the tranch to give him problems.
Electric and hybrid cars tend to be a very poor choice for country driving. They are heavy for their size, have low ground clearance and skinny tyres, everything you need to get stuck in the mud or rip off your exhaust on a protruding rock. They also tend to have delicate suspensions that are quickly destroyed by rough country dirt roads, and that's assuming you're not dumb enough to go off-road in them which will kill them in literal minutes. A friend of mine took their Civic hybrid on a two week holiday to a place that was accessed by a half-mile dirt track. The car's tracking was visibly off after a couple of days and before the two weeks were up the suspension broke completely and it had to be hauled away on a low-loader.
I've driven over some pretty sketchy dirt roads before and ground clearance is always the big one for me. Nothing says "fun" quite like knowing that you either move or sink on these roads during mud season and you have 2 miles until to go until pavement. I hope your suspension is good because all those ruts and potholes need to be cleared at a certain speed or you get stuck in the mire that was once the road surface. This happened to me fairly recently in a modern SUV with good clearance, all wheel drive, and wide tires.
I don't know how people with these little hybrid/electric shitboxes get it in their heads that driving their fancy eco car down a dirt road in Nowheresville USA is a good idea. I look forward to mud season on the Tranch, can't wait for the Leaf to finally get a full charge only to get mired up to its wheel wells in Colorado's finest slip.
I think their rainy season is summer, so we might be close. I look forward to either a thunderstorm hitting the grid or the rain fucking with the soil.
I mean the dome is heated with a wood stove (or at least they have one and use it, I'm sure they have a propane heater for when they're too lazy to deal with a fire) and the great thing about a wood stove is you can heat your house with it AND cook on it. Hell I prefer to cook on my wood stove in the winter (or spring...I made grilled cheese on it last night).
If they have ANY sort of cooling system installed in that house, even a window swamp cooler, running off a generator then they're even more stupid than I ever thought possible.
I think their rainy season is summer, so we might be close. I look forward to either a thunderstorm hitting the grid or the rain fucking with the soil.
