I realize what REA did,and don't deny it was a good thing. What I'm saying is,they stifled ingenuity. Wind powered generators were becoming more and more common on farms and so were batteries to store that electricity. I guess all we can do is dream about how far that technology would have come if the government hadn't stepped in. But now here we are 80 years later with the government spending money to try to develop what might have existed by now,completely done by the private sector.
No,that's not my basement. It belongs to my brother in law in Sweden. You can walk in to any home improvement store over there and buy any and all of that equipment that's on the site I linked to. He's offered to run it through his business and ship everything to me so we can get away without paying the 25% tax on it. He says it would run about $15,000 for the equipment. If I was a younger man building a new house,I'd install it in a heartbeat. In fact,my son is pricing things for a new house now,and if he builds,he wants to install that system in it. He's been to Sweden and stayed in that house and has seen it work first hand. It's just stupid that we don't have easy access to that equipment and that it isn't being installed in very new home that's built in this country. That house in the picture is in the same latitude as Fairbanks Alaska. Thoger lights the gasification boiler a few days a week starting in late October,then burns it steady November through March. By the first of April,the sun is high enough to heat totally with solar again. That's the kind of innovation you get when the government doesn't get involved.
If you tried to put that system in to mass use here,there are people on the radio with an army of foot soldiers who would fight it tooth and nail to the death to defend oil company profits. It's sad,but you know as well as I do that it's true. There would be a huge backlash against it from the left as well if the bulk of the boilers were wood gasification boilers. "YOU CAN'T DO THAT,YOU'RE DESTROYING THE PLANET!".
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