i check his channel out from time to time....go back in his videoes where he was building a log cabin and had it stolen out of storage if i recall correctly....probably towards the beginning of his channel...
It's not a problem, just an expense we have to take into consideration.
The cold, I don't see it as a challenge. Securing enough electricity for common household appliances is my main concern, cause indeed solar panels covered in snow are useless. So they need to be accessible (free standing instead of roof mounted) for then to get cleaned. All major power hungry appliances can run on natural gas (water heater, dryer, stove, secondary heat source (after wood). Those eliminated the rest would be, hair dryer, washer, microwave, refrigerator, coffee machine, lighting, tv/htpc, laptop and phones.
Yeah, we at least have standards of decency here in AK.
For work I'm good with my 15gb cell phone plan. So if we decide to live without streaming I don't think we need more than that. You can still get good signal with an HD antenna that would probably be enough for us. A part of the plan is to cut back on screen time to get more out time. Maybe 5G flying covid bats will be deployed when all of this fantasy happens.
I *think* the sat internet has gotten better...not great, but better. I remember trying to use my parent's when they were doing the RV lifestyle 10 years ago. That was a flat out nope. Not appropriate even for simple stuff, let alone streaming. Big time ripoff. Pretty sure it's gotten better though. A lot of places in AK use some form of it and I've been in those remote locations and it seems to have worked ok. The bigger communities get fiberoptics routed in, but pretty sure many are on sat.
Wouldn't that be liquefied natural gas at that point? So only different to a chemist?
Pretty sure you are correct.
Did you consider a heat pump (ground to water) for warm water and backup heating? Uses little electricity only for the pump and compressor and is nearly maintenance free (check once a year). Some can also be used to AC.
Those systems can get expensive when you have to drill thru the Canadian shield. I'm sure I'll have time to crunch the numbers.
Yeah...
They actually are starting to insulate more to save on cooling bills. But yeah, not to the extreme of a passive house for colder climate.
Why drilling? The pipes only have to go below the depth of freezing which here where I live is about 1 m.
Did I mention Canadian Shield?
You did, but I didn't realize there was that little soil above it. How do the trees root there?Did I mention Canadian Shield?
Our current lot got about 2 feet of soil before hitting solid rock. Each time there is a house being built around here you can hear the blasting sirens going off all day. Out of 280 acres, it's realistic that a location could be found with more above rock soil.
It's been a few years since I've had experience with satellite internet, but I too found that it was expensive and slow. Part of the slowness probably comes from the latency experienced with the physical distance? Maybe lasers can help??
Trees next to nothing to root its more the amount of soil and access to water that then decides the size of the tree. I have a tree that used to live in maybe 2cm by 30cm off moss and old needles.
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