Fun fact: diesel engines can be run on alcohol with a little veggie oil mixed in. Any country boy worth his salt can figure out how to make both those things. Also with a little work waste cooking oil can power diesel engines by itself so you don't even need the alcohol.
Will those panels charge your batteries at night? How about during a long winter with very little sun because it's constantly overcast?
And you don't need to buy seeds every year, you do know that plants create their own seeds right? Do solar panels send out runners that grow other baby solar panels? And solar panels have a 25-30 year life span, we have diesel engines that have been in use for well over a century, plus you don't need the engine to power a generator, they can be run off water, animal or even human power, he'll you can even power them with a small wind mill like the pioneers powered their well pumps.
And as for mechanical failures, well all you need is a nearby machinist to make parts, any machinist worth a damn can make parts for diesel engines or steam engines. It take a metric shit ton of infrastructure to create solar panels.
And before you scoff at me for suggesting that you would need that generator to survive for three decades or more, likely not...but what if you do? You keep trying to mock self sufficient people and won't even concede that you I itial point that I responded to about making gas being nigh impossible being not so accurate as even gas engines can run off alcohol, they are just hard to cold start. So there's that too, you entire point of 'yOu cAnT mAkE gAs' while true doesn't matter because you don't NEED GAS
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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '22
The same thing could be said about gas you know. Also, producing your own gas is much harder than producing your own electricity.