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I would get a 5 kilowatt generator. Get a dynamo and battery, and get a fold out solar array. Relying on one energy source, especially gasoline, is no good.

Edit: or make your home net energy positive. If you install solar arrays on the roof and a windmill in the rear with a (very expensive) battery setup for nighttime, you'll be fine.
 
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Chongqing said:
I think I read that ISIS was big into portable Turkish wind generators during its last couple of weeks.

Cheap, small, you just put them outside.
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ISIS? Gonna saw your head off and set you on fire if you won't tell me the best small, portable, gas-run generator, Chongqing .

A Cardboard Box said:
I would get a 5 kilowatt generator. Get a dynamo and battery, and get a fold out solar array. Relying on one energy source, especially gasoline, is no good.

Edit: or make your home net energy positive. If you install solar arrays on the roof and a windmill in the rear with a (very expensive) battery setup for nighttime, you'll be fine.
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What's a dynamo, A Cardboard Box? Hand-cranked?
 
Freshly Baked Socks said:
What are you preferred sources of energy? Also, what is your total expected energy draw?


You didn't exactly ask "what is the most robust 2000w 120v pull-start, gasoline generator".. but I am trying to help detail the situation.
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Thank you, Freshly Baked Socks. Would love to have solar and windmills in a perfect world. Just wanna keep the water running at this point. It's a pump.

So, you're saying a 2000w 120v pull-start, gasoline generator? I suck at plumbing and electric. Got any particular brand in mind?
 
I am saying this forum is not focused on your issue, and as an elementary educated fool, I understand how lost most layman consumers are to fix their issues. You need to calculate your electric draw, and your power generation capability, and even the capacity of your batteries if you have them (but I bet you don't). Thanks for reading along, please seek geeks of the prepper genre to spend hours educating you on other forums.

Honest answer? Any generator I can swipe/hold/fuel post-bugmaninvasion is the best generator.
 
Freshly Baked Socks said:
I am saying this forum is not focused on your issue, and as an elementary educated fool, I understand how lost most layman consumers are to fix their issues. You need to calculate your electric draw, and your power generation capability, and even the capacity of your batteries if you have them (but I bet you don't). Thanks for reading along, please seek geeks of the prepper genre to spend hours educating you on other forums.

Honest answer? Any generator I can swipe/hold/fuel post-bugmaninvasion is the best generator.
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How should I go about "calculating" my "electric draw"?

As for batteries? Behold:
 
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Learn to can your food also salt and smoke your meat, bro. For the majority of humanity's existence we did not have refrigeration. Look up Back to the Land movement. Honestly our modern comforts weaken us when it comes to prepping and survival.
 
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3M 6300 Respirators along with their filters are only $30 combined on Amazon, get em while they last for god's sake ☣
 
This thread deserves more attention.

Augason Farms food is pretty damn good if you want to buy stuff in #10 cans. The blueberries are awesome and the broccoli cheese soup is now a staple in my cooking, both as a creamy soup and as a casserole binder.

It's gonna be a long winter y'all. Try to be ready for it.
 
One year later, I search for this thread. Hands up everyone who died from not prepping properly last winter.
 
KooksandFreaks said:
How should I go about "calculating" my "electric draw"?

As for batteries? Behold:
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When we were trying to figure out how we used two months of power in a week, we got a thing called a Kill-a-watt.


Not sure if they make something bigger for figuring out your entire household usage. Maybe reading the meter would help? It's supposedly literally a count of kw/hs, right?
 
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A Cardboard Box said:
I would get a 5 kilowatt generator. Get a dynamo and battery, and get a fold out solar array. Relying on one energy source, especially gasoline, is no good.
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5k really isn't much for a household, I'd consider that the bare minimum; a 9 or 10k is ideal, you'll be able to run all of your household appliances off that. Also, look for a dual-fuel generator, they run off either propane or gasoline.
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When we were trying to figure out how we used two months of power in a week, we got a thing called a Kill-a-watt.

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These things are fun, and it's surprising what'll draw the most current.
 
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  1. What options are good for solar hot water heating? I heard it's the best use of solar as it's the most efficient, it lasts the longest, and it's the simplest and lowest maintenance.
  2. Is there such a thing as long term (months long) solar hot water heat storage, in like a water tank in a bed of sand or some other insulating material? I'm curious if this could be used for radiant floor heating in the winter.
  3. I've always thought that I could make a home hydro power generator linked with small windmills that mechanically pump water from a lower area to a higher area. The hydro would be the baseline power source, the upper pond would be the storage medium, and the windmills would be the means by which you turn something (wind) into power (potential energy as water in a pond up a hill). Has anyone done anything like this?
  4. Anyone have stuff on compost heated greenhouses?
 
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