Hard to buy the Prepper theory. Preppers don’t base their survival plans on an
ephemeral resource such as available grid electricity, and the amount of power
needed is well beyond solar or wind generation capacity.
Thomas W Noel
KF7RSF
> On Jan 14, 2017, at 6:31 PM, Roger (K8RI) on TT <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
> wrote:
>
> One word...Preppers! Before long, they may outnumber the weed growers.
>
> They want lots of fresh vegetables year round. Doing it indoors "up here"
> would give three crops per year. In GA my son gets two crops per year
> outdoors, but he usually has to cover the second crop a few times
>
> If our home was larger, I'd use the newer methods of growing without soil.
> Here? We don't have a garden, indoors or out.
>
> Growing up on the farm, we rarely needed to go to town. My mother had a large
> garden and a fruit cellar.
> A indoor garden, even with the extra cost pretty much removes the worries
> about food in case of winter storms, or possible disasters.
>
> 73, Roger (K8RI)
>
> On 1/13/2017 8:31 PM, StellarCAT wrote:
>> Why would anyone spend so much more for electricity to 'save' on vegetables
>> from an indoor garden?!
>>
>> Seems, to me, at least likely, only one reason why it is there...
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: jimlux
>> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 2:07 PM
>> To: towertalk@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] noise profiles...
>>
>> On 1/13/17 8:47 AM, GALE STEWARD via TowerTalk wrote:
>>> I'm not 100% sure that it's from illegal activity. I used to start A LOT of
>>> my garden plants for the spring planting by using grow lights. I used to
>>> have powered up for 12 hours a day. I never started them this early in the
>>> year however (SE PA).
>>>
>> or to get mares fertile earlier - you want that January foal so it's
>> three months older than all the other horses of the same "horsey age"
>> (which rolls over at New Years) (and equine gods forbid your mare starts
>> to deliver on 31 Dec... You'll have a 150 lb "one year old" on your hands)
>>
>> . or to fake your horse into shedding out their winter coat early.
>>
>>
>> Of course, you don't need "big bright lights" for that function...
>>
>> Lots of legitimate reasons to drive photoperiod.
>>
>> Not a lot of legitimate reasons to radiate RFI
>>
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