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Gathering Goateggs's avatar

Very interesting and thoughtful. I'm lucky, I guess -- or maybe there's a reason I always gravitated to historic houses in moderate climates. I own a 150-year-old foursquare in a small town (~4000 population) with propane cooking and a heating oil boiler supplemented with fireplaces. The town is located on the banks of a river -- I guess in a pinch we'd figure out how to make it safe for drinking and bathing. With shorebilly ingenuity our locals could probably figure out how to run the water tower pumps with wind power given a few weeks and some beer. I'm pretty sure the municipal water infrastructure itself predates the town's electrification.

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Priestess of Menzoberranzan's avatar

Great article! Permaculture takes some of this into consideration with a disaster analysis. Imo, it is one of the most important sectors. And redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.

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