[Ipg-smz] Off the Grid

Sharon Fisher slfisher at gmail.com
Thu Sep 5 00:03:28 UTC 2019


Where upstate?

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019, 12:20 PM Dennisf63 via Ipg-smz <ipg-smz at netpress.org>
wrote:

> Okay all  you technoid fanatics. Upstate NY. Back in the mid 1990s we
> went geothermal with a ground-source heat pump. It probably paid for
> itself (in the vicinity of $10k including the cost of the ground loop
> piping) in five years.
>
> Fast forward a score years or so and it was decided to update the unit.
> Different vendor, Got rebates and what not knocked that down to about $4k.
>
> Now I'm thinking, if NYSEG's lines go down in winter, I could get cold.
> Backup generator (propane). But wait! Why not solar. I've got a south
> facing slope perfect for solar panels.
>
> And why just for emergency backup???
>
> Asked around, asked the outfit that put in the latest heat pump.
>
> Turns out "lots of people" are going that route. Got calls in for solar
> panels. We shall see, but I may have seen the last of NYSEG.
>
> Now, no cell service here. If I only had a way to get free of Verizon's
> land line service.
>
> I guess I'll have to research satellite. I have Dish network and
> Wildblue.net for internet. Hmmmmmmm.
>
> --
> Dennis Fowler
> P. O. Box 70
> Otego, NY 13825
> dennisf63 at wildblue.net
>
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