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A little of both here. Not strictly "lone", wife and dogs are the core team, and own four separate small off-grid parcels of land within a quarter mile of our rural national forest bordering home; two parcels with shelters, water well and pump, and privies. They're vacation spots and overflow housin...

Outstanding! I. Must. Do. This. Too. License and vaccination records, maybe a photocopy of the dog tags in case the collar is lost? Canned dog food, longer shelf life, less rotating? I've used hydrogen peroxide to induce vomiting on one of my mutts, ate a mushroom in the woods as a puppy. Used a syr...

Good idea, and maybe the best compromise for purge time and cost, and as the least ugly solution. Thanks.

I carry iodine, but I use it to clean water for irrigation or to disinfect skin, in almost no situation would I use iodine itself for wound cleaning, there’s a ton of data that the tissue damage done with more concentrated iodine prolongs the healing process. The one caveat would be a iodine wet to...

Yes. ^^^this^^^ very much. I do this as much as I can. This *should* work with solid pills & tablets. Some are scored to be cut in half. Obvisouly one cannot do this with gels, powder caps, etc. This will not work with all solid pills and tablets. It is, in fact, quite dangerous with ones designed ...

Necro alert, this just looked like the best thread to revive to post this: Comparative in vitro evaluation of the antimicrobial activities of povidone-iodine and other commercially available antiseptics against clinically relevant pathogens TL;DR summary, povidone-iodine is equal or superior to some...

Small (36 volunteer) study of 3 different antiseptic mouthwashes and their antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 over short (20-180 min) time periods: Povidone iodine, hydrogen peroxide and chlorhexidine mouthwashes reduce SARS-CoV2 burden in whole mouth fluid and respiratory droplets A log1 reducti...

***SPOILER ALERT*** Finished watching episodes 1-9 last night. The constant flashback/flashforward sequences in the first 3 episodes or so made it almost unwatchable for me, but thought that from episode 4 onward they started telling the story more or less in sequence even though MUCH was skipped ov...

Might have found a solution, a valve needing a key to open it to "keeps small hands from accidentally turning on the gas". www.amazon.com/dp/B08KG5C8N7 Thinking I could add a "T" on one side of the valve so propane flows normally when the valve is closed for normal operation, and nothing attached to...

Minor upgrade to the outhouse heater at the guest cottage today, had this hard plumbed with copper tubing from the "T" on the left in the pic but it was a pain to get the flared fitting aligned when re-attaching it so I replaced it with a flexible hose instead. https://i.postimg.cc/CLwxJvHJ/outhouse...

Not portable, but I've got one of these (or sometrhing very similar) in my kitchen. https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/household-appliances/refrigeration/fridges/essentials-cul50w20-undercounter-fridge-white-10205749-pdt.html Under standard test conditions it's rated at 113 kWh/yr, which is an average o...

I could easily add on another 100W panel, and I'm fairly certain more guys in my local MAG will be buying solar soon, so I expect to have some more power available. Later down the road I'll likely buy a small gas/propane generator for backup as well; and I'd very much like to add some thermoelectri...

Ok. At this point I would sit down and do some math on what you plan to run on this because that will determine the amp load on the system and that in turn will determine the wire sizes and fuses you want on there. ---------------- 6 gauge? Which is pretty thick and expensive. This is not to say "I...

Depending on the RV you are looking at and the number of air conditioner (AC) units it will have and you plan to operate you will need to plan accordingly for the total output of your generator. However, if the RV does not already have it you will want to look into a softstart type device to add to...

Looked up the engine on the Champion earlier just out of curiosity, and it seems to be a very common one sold under different names (Predator, Raven, etc) and used in many different products. Gets largely good reviews too. The WEN has the same engine specs, suspect it's the same one as well. Just a ...

I'd say the redundancy of having two gennies trumps the minimal extra maintenance required, but I'd want each capable of powering the largest "must have" item/appliance or its just twice as much stuff to break as Raptor said. We just passed our 15 year anniversary of offgrid living and are still usi...

All the snow/ice went South of us, just below average temps for the last week or so. Has actually been a pretty mild Winter up here in terms of temps and snow so far.

No reminders about alt. heating and power safety since everyone here already knows it so well, but just stay safe down there guys.

Small clinical trial of PVP-I in symptomatic COVID-19 patients published yesterday: Povidone Iodine Mouthwash, Gargle, and Nasal Spray to Reduce Nasopharyngeal Viral Load in Patients With COVID-19 Their findings seem to contradict those from these earlier studies: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10....

Slightly off-topic perhaps, but have wondered why macro/microencapsulated phase change materials hasn't been incorporated into sleeping bag liner/filler material. Most of the clothing products that incorporate it are geared toward cooling where the melt/freeze point of the PCM is designed to absorb ...

Did you go with the Powerwall system then, and how is it working out for you? Specs of the system? Good call on the generator, only Hondas here too.

Silver might be their next target, https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/reddit-day-traders-silver-next-short-squeeze-2021-1-1030017108 I have a small stake in physical silver (Eagles and some junk) so I'll be watching this closely starting when the market opens tonight, although I doubt ...

One of the guys who saw the over-shorted positions on GME early is up $22.8M USD with some of that pulled out as actual profits already. The thread discussing this today was at one point 48 minutes old with over 20,000 posts to it. Reddit's engineering team actually asked the mods if they could tak...

I forgot to ask. Is there any way to give a post a "thumbs up" here ? Many times I just want to acknowledge a post made by someone without writing out a story. Kind of a "hey great idea" thing. So you just give them a "thumbs up" . Had it at one time, but had to back out of the software upgrade due...

The Mrs and I decided to take 1/2 of this last stimulus round and get whatever we wanted, the other 1/2 and any new stimulus money this year will go on the down payment for her new light-duty truck we'll buy in Sept or Oct. If we can get 0 percent financing on it however that may change. That I'd sp...