[RKDinOKC]

My brothers Y2K farm house/bunker runs off the grid, wind, battery, and diesel. It sells wind power to the grid to about make the electric bill zero. They buried a big tank and filled it with diesel (treated to last a long time). If the grid goes down it switches to battery with wind keeping them charged. If the wind ain't enough it kicks on the diesel. I don't think they do the routine starts on the diesel so it may not work if really needed. The thing I thought was bad is that you can see the wind generators way up on a tower for miles. If there had been a bad enough Y2K civilization crash that they would have to rely on their farmhouse, those wind generators would advertise the location.

Gotta be careful with that emergency preparedness stuff. Before you know it you are labeled a doomsday prepper.

I visit the American Airlines Logistics building that does all the flight planning etc. in Dallas. The power coming in the building runs two big electric motors that turn two big generators with huge flywheels on them. If the power cuts there are two big industrial gas engines that immediately kick on at 5000 rpm. Got to watch them do their weekly test. The gas motors are kicked in by the flywheel and are instantly running at 5000 rpm. It happens so fast there is no spike in the power output of the generators one way or the other. It is quite startling to be standing next to a cold motor that is suddenly running at 5000 rpm.

My nephew built a big house kind of in the country. The power was going off all the time. He put in a propane generator that will power the whole house for weeks. He set it up so the propane company fills the underground tank from his front gate and never comes on the property. He is moving and his house is up for sale for $1.4mil american.