Guest Post by Eric Peters
It’s single digits outside as I type this – but 72 degrees inside, as I type this. The fire is keeping us warm.
But that’s only part of it.
The fire can’t be turned off (or even down) by a remote central authority – as electricity can. If you rely on the latter to keep warm, keep in mind that they control whether you stay warm. Their control can be asserted by what they call a “smart” meter – or a “smart” thermostat. Which it isn’t very smart to have in your home, if you dislike the idea of not being in control over whether you stay warm.
It is psychologically interesting that they use such verbiage to wheedle people into thinking it is “smart” to accept what is manifestly stupid – in terms of their own self-interest. The same etymological mind-fuckery can be observed in the use of such words as “assistance” to describe “technology” that’s likewise used to control people.
Think about this push to power everything using electricity. Not just heat. What will it mean when everything is powered by the same thing and nothing is any longer up to you to decide whether to power (and how much power to use). Think about the kinds of people who are pushing for that control and what they have already done to us on the pretext of various shibboleths, which are all fundamentally the same in that they all serve the same purpose.
Two guesses as to what that might be.
I have a big pile of firewood sitting just outside my front door. Each log can be thought of as unit of energy – which it is – that can be used at my discretion for any purpose I deem necessary. The wood is storable energy, too – which has a value not dissimilar from that which inheres in precious metals. Each log represents – each log is – heat value that can be cashed in whenever I like. Electricity is different in at least two ways worth thinking about, the most obvious being it is only available to use if it isn’t turned off (or down). You pay your power bill, but you can’t stack up a pile of kilowatt-hours to have on hand for when the power might be turned off (or down). You can only have what they allow you to receive and they can decide to not allow you to receive it anytime they like.
And why would they want to have that kind of control over your ability to stay warm? Or to eat, for that matter? How about your being able to go for a drive – or not?
Perhaps you begin to see.
One of the reasons I left the city – left suburbia – was because I liked the idea of taking back a degree of control over what I perhaps quaintly continue to think of as my life. It is essential to assert control over it if one wishes to have meaningful ownership over it. Otherwise, it’s just a sickly (and dangerous) illusion. One that can be easily and quickly dispelled by an assertion of control by the owners.
So I traded in a suburban house on a lot measured in square feet for a country house on land – with plenty of trees. My own storehouse of energy, which is now effectively free for the taking. Having bought the house and the land, I own the trees – and I can (and do) cut some down as necessary. The power could go off for months and we’d neither freeze nor go without hot food (and water). The latter being arguably at least as important as staying warm when it’s bitter cold.
Of course, it is for just these reasons that they will probably try to outlaw the use of wood to heat a home. They have already done or are trying to do just that in some parts of what’s left of this country. Which is just the right word given who’s behind the destruction of this country.
I think they’ll fail – because it’s no longer a question of annoyance or inconvenience or background-noise increase in the cost of living. It is becoming clear to people who aren’t catatonic that they mean to take away everything, which necessarily means our lives at the end of the thing. We face, in other words, an existential threat – and when a person realizes this, it tends to focus his attention on dealing with it.
We’ve been living with it for far too long. Chiefly because we could afford to. Because we have enjoyed a cushion of affluence that seemed almost an entitlement; certainly something many took for granted.
It is now on the verge of being taken away – by people whose evil motives all-too-many-of-us either didn’t understand or didn’t want to understand. When everything is on the table, such ignorance – such insouciance – is fatal.
These are my thoughts as I type by my fireside, looking out my window at the cold outside.
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Using firewood warms you up three times. When you cut it, split it, and burn it. I did it for about 10 years when I lived in Seward AK. The biggest knottiest spruce rounds just pop with the mall when it gets below zero. It would take about a dozen chords to heat our place for the year. For about 3 months, June to August, it was just get a good blaze going and let it go out. Really cold months you would burn a chord from 10 days to two weeks.
What chord do your cords burn in?
F#m79
Anon of your bidness.
It warms more than 3 times.
When you think about how often you handle every piece of wood from cutting the tree down(or in my case cutting standing dead wood or what has already fallen) to the time it is put in the stove can be anywhere from 6 time to as many as ten when the wood pile falls over.
While the idea of individual independence is very attractive, it is difficult for me to imagine anyone believing they will be left alone when the totalitarianism goes full bore. It will simply take them a bit longer to get to you.
Cities, suburbs, rural, homesteaders: we must hang together, or we shall all hang seperately.
Based on my experience of living for 9 years along the Oregon Coast – in rather remote areas (one town – within 75 square miles – 1600 full-time residents; another town – within 48 square miles – 800 full-time residents) — I was very surprised and dismayed at the large proportion of far leftists in those areas … limousine liberals in the $1MM+ homes who didn’t want anyone else to share the privileges they enjoyed.
I love the aroma of wood burning in my stove. It brings me back to a time when the world made sense. If they want to deny me that they’ll have to kill me first. Then it won’t matter.
Kill Them first, CC.
Caedite eos omnes. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
A direct translation of the Medieval Latin phrase is “Kill them. The Lord knows those that are his own”.
Actually, it’s “kill them all”. You forgot to translate “omnes”.
Yes, someone “comes” for you they will kill you, kill them first if possible.
A while back some (((douchebag))) on NextDoor was whining about backyard fires because of “particulates”.
NextDoor should be renamed “Karen.com”
However, it is a useful intelligence-gathering tool. When things go sideways, you’ll know who to shoot first.
the next door big wigs are also highly anti-gun —
Your ground wants to have trees and water on it. You can make almost any ground fertile enough for limited gardening but without water and trees you’ll be cold and thirsty if the overlords determine you shall so be.
Almost none of us can truly be self sufficient for any length of time but we all can improve our ability to take control over our own lives and within our limitations, should.
It is becoming clear that the overlords intend our destruction and are working toward that end. With that understanding the choice to improve one’s ability to sustain oneself is plain. There is a lot to do and time passes quickly.
I believe in backups, a wood stove, and a diesel-powered heater. Plus wind and solar powering electric heaters and radiant in floor heat. all off the grid. I’ve been contemplating how to live when they come out with digital money(CBDC) and only allow so much fuel to be bought each month. Diesel fuel is mentioned as being something they want to get rid of. Yep, nothing like a warm fire.
You need to talk to our Lord, Jesus Christ. He has given us until Christmas to try and straighten this out. See Randy Kay’s prophetic vision.
Sell your cloak and buy a sword, the 21st century version of one.
Remember, 1 watt =3.41 bTu
My lovely state is doing everything it can to force citizens to use only electricity. They are banning wood stoves and fireplaces and attempting to ban all gas appliances. Most of my fellow Oregonians say it’s okay, because it’s for the climate.
But then we get a series of ice storms like we did this week and huge chunks of Portland lose power for days resulting in frozen and bursting pipes and days with no heat. Those of us heavily relying on natural gas and possessing a natural gas-powered generator look on our neighbors and say: how is that all electric, climate-friendly approach working out for you. After which we say, under our breath, dumb assholes.
One problem even if you have a gas range and a gas furnace and a gas water heater is that none of them are permitted to have pilot lights — all must be ignited by a piezo electric sparking device, which still requires electricity. And not all can be ignited with a match – or so I’ve been told by the local gas company representative.
As Dan Ackroyd’s character said in ‘Boneheads’ …
Beldar Conehead: [Furious to be kept waiting over his car repair] What choice do I have? It is as if you have grabbed me by the base of my snarglies!
My gas stove can be lit with a match and the gas fireplace is lit by two AA batteries. Only the water heater needs a plugin electric start, and thats what the jenny is for.
Newer water heaters, don’t need a plug in electric start. I had one put in 3 years ago, and was very surprised by this.
I’ve never seen a gas water heater that needs a plug into start / run, and I have installed my share of them. I just installed a new WH for my daughter a couple weeks ago, and was quite entertained that the pilot light even ran enough power through the thermocouple to light a led to show it was on. Was also kinda pleased it had a push button no battery pilot lighter, which sure beats getting on your belly with a torch or piece of paper to light the pilot light.
As a side note, I read many many decades ago that the Japanese as a matter of course for many decades (back to WWII perhaps?) before that had a device constructed of a complex of thermocouples that they could feed small sticks and such that produced a good deal of their household power needs, as well to cook with. Never have got confirmation if true, but it came from a fairly reputable paper magazine source (popular science or such).
If you help them you will change their thinking.
The, so called “Elites”, always try for total control, and they sometimes succeed. Eventually they lose control, and then their heads.
Living in South Louisiana we very rarely have prolonged periods of extremely cold weather. I live in an older home constructed in the early 1950’s. One of the first things I did was to install a fireplace. Most all the newer homes were built with fireplaces. I always felt like I was a rich man if I had 2 cords of seasoned firewood for the winter. Several years ago we had a rare ice storm. We were without electricity for 7 days. My house stayed warm and toasty while most all the other houses were up shyte creek. Turns out their fireplaces were for decorations only.
If you ever run out of firewood, you can always burn your Tesla.
unreliable source of heat. They’ll self ignite just when you don’t want them too and the smoke is toxic. They can’t even get that right…
Our doomstead gets too cold. Weather in the adirondacks can be brutal. Spray foamed, propane heat and generator keeps us warm. Almost burned our last house down so i am gunshy on woodstoves. The wood floor under the floor protector under the stove had turned to charcoal and finally lit up one day. And since it was paid for, i didnt carry insurance.