Ye Old Homesteader

But I love my husband and he has been talking about wanting to see this for literally 5 years.

Sorry frustrated.

NY is kind of dumb. They keep flip flopping on electrification and while it pains me to agree with Hochul I kind of do. Although my issues isn’t so much about affordability, as that is an issue we could solve by more heavily regulating utility rates. My issue is reliability.

NY has one of the oldest grids in the country. Depending on where you live you, your power could go out for a couple hours or a couple days. It also gets fucking cold here.

So everyone switches to electric heat and then what?

You can run a gas furnace off one of those small generators you pick up at Home Depot, you cannot run a heat pump with one. To have reliable backup power you will need a whole home generator. Whole home generators are not cheap. Personal opinion, if you are switching to heat pumps figure in a whole home generator into your cost or maybe buy a pellet stove for backup heat.

The biggest thing I learned in my degree program, was the 3E and 3R principles. Good sustainability policy takes into account Economy, Ecology, and Equity. Good energy policy takes into account Risk, Reliability, and Resiliency.

Two of my cows decided having their calves in a blizzard was a grand idea. The one unfortunately had hers overnight and it was already dead when we found it. Luckily the second cow had hers during the day and I was able to scoop her up right after being born. I brought her in the camper to dry off, fed her some colostrum, and she is now in a temporary calf hutch with 2 heat lamps and a blanket to keep warm.