The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Solar Energy, the good, the bad, the ugly

Episode Date: November 12, 2023

Exploring solar.

3, 2, 1, GO! survive, and thrive. And now, here's your hosts, Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. Chapter 26. The truck crept along the road, and the hum filled Cole's ears. Let's just stay on the highway. It doesn't look safe to stop, Cole commented, as they looked cautiously out the window. He had his rifle ready. Slow and steady wins the race, Sir, Monroe agreed, as they gently swerved left and right, avoiding stalled cars that littered the sides of the road. Climbing the hill to Las Vegas,

Cole stared out at the desert mountains. Look at that, Sir, Monroe commented. As they entered the valley, miles and miles of broken solar panels spanned out in the distance. Groups of people with armed guards surrounding them worked scavenging the fields. Isn't that stuff toxic, Monroe inquired. Oh, yeah. Does great stuff for the water supply.

But I don't think they're worried about that. They're getting water from the lake, Cole replied. So what's the story with Ginger, Monroe? You gotten a piece of that yet? Chappy asked out of the blue. Really, Chappy? It's not like that. And even if it was, I wouldn't tell you about it, Monroe commented. Yeah, you would. Remember that little honey you had last time we were in Vegas? You couldn't quit talking about her. That's because he paid half his paycheck for her to spend the weekend with him, Cole interjected. That girl was fine. I consider that a quality investment, Monroe said.

His eyes sparkled and he grinned widely. Holy crap, Virgis, is that the line to get into the city, Chappy asked, as they climbed the last portion of the mountain road. Looks that way, Cole replied with a scowl. Now we know how the folks up north felt waiting in the line. See all that smoke? It looks like the city is on fire, Monroe added, looking up the mountain towards the city. These cars wouldn't be lined up here if they didn't have supplies, Cole retorted, hoping it was true. Who's overseeing this city, Monroe asked. The feds, so watch yourself. We don't want any trouble here, Cole advised, nervous about how this would play out. Speak of the devil, here comes one of

those upstanding soldiers now, Monroe commented, watching a federal soldier approach with a clipboard. Monroe rolled down the window. Hi, sir. I'm doing a pre-check. Can I see your papers, please? the soldier asked. Cole produced his identification, explaining, We're a caravan from Peach Springs. We mostly need sugar, salt, coffee, and miscellaneous building supplies. The next three vehicles are with me.

We'll also be checking the status of the people with you. We can't be supplying refugees out there. They can stay here at the camp. I need to see the papers for these two men, the Fed said, indicating Monroe and Chappie. They're with me, Cole answered. Sir, I respect your former standing with the mercenary force, but I just explained the situation, the Fed replied, checking his watch. These two men are both fighters in the mercenary force as well, Cole countered. Then what are they doing on a supply

run and not at post, the Fed responded. Cole was getting perturbed by this little punk. He barked, look, soldier, I understand you have your orders, and you and I going round and round about this will not solve anything. Why don't you direct me towards your superior and I can take it up with him? The Fed looked to the back of the truck as another soldier approached, declaring, Sir, these other three vehicles, check out. Move this truck out of the line and direct him to Captain Areno, the Fed commanded, stepping out of the way and pointing Virgis up a fast track lane. They drove into the city.

The road was walled up on the left side and the fires and fighting raged beyond them. The sound of gunfire echoed in the distance and the federal soldiers dotted the area on high alert. Driving deeper into the city, the expanse of refugee camp became visible on the right. That looks cozy, Monroe commented at the vast expanse of tents. At least they're getting fed, Cole replied. He was in awe at the extensive destruction that hit the city. He stared at the crumpled buildings, watching the large groups of people trying to scavenge supplies and rebuild homes. Looks like the gate to the refugee center is down there, Monroe said, pointing down a road lined with warehouses. They're using the airport as the main building. The fencing is down there, Monroe said, pointing down a road lined with warehouses.

They're using the airport as the main building. The fencing was already there, Cole explained, looking carefully down the road. Monroe stopped in front of a gigantic pyramid-shaped building, following a pointing federal soldier. The air was dry and the gunfire rang out in the distance as the men exited the vehicle. Please, come this way, sir, a federal soldier requested, ushering them toward the building. Wasn't this hotel called the Luxor, Chappy asked, looking up at the massive glass structure? Some of the windows were replaced with metal or plywood, giving it a patchwork design. Yeah, I guess the pyramid design helped it survive the quake,

Monroe agreed, following Cole in the door. Inside, a federal soldier in his late 20s stood waiting for them. Staff Sergeant Bingham, these are the men I radioed about, former mercenaries, McClintock's team. These two are refugees, sir, the Fed declared. Gunnery Sergeant Nicholton is in town. Bring him here so we can verify their stories, Bingham requested. Yes, sir, the Fed replied, hustling off to find the man. Name Staff Sergeant Alex Bingham. Cole Verges, sir. This is Tim Monroe and Bill Chappie. Pleasure.

What were your ranks while you were in, Bingham inquired. I was a major and these two were sergeants, Cole explained. Well, well, I would have been saluting you, sir. That was then. Now we're just here for supplies, Cole said humbly. Why did you leave if you don't mind me asking, Bingham inquired, looking at Cole curiously. Cole laughed a little, replying simply, Look around. That's all I'm going to say. That's all you need to say, Bingham said with a nod.

They quieted as Gunnery Sergeant Ben Nicolton approached. Major Verges, sir, what are you doing down here? I thought you went back east, he inquired warmly. I did. Then I went home, Cole answered flatly. Addressing Bingham's concerns, Nicolton declared, I can vouch for these men, all mercenary members. While they were talking, two large men walked by.

Taking notice of the plainly dressed men and the mercenary and federal soldiers, one of the large men with a sharp uniform and a bald head approached. Captain Moreno, sir, Bingham declared, snapping to attention. Is there a problem here? The captain asked sharply, displaying a missing tooth in his front teeth. No, sir, just a misunderstanding, Bingham explained. I trust you have it straightened out? Yes, sir. Excellent, the captain replied, turning to leave. The federal soldier with the captain requested, sir, permission to stay and catch up with you in a minute, sir? The captain rolled his eyes, replying,

Granted. Make it fast, Bennett. Yes, sir, Sergeant Patrick Bennett replied, turning to return to the men. His walrus mustache formed a unique shape as he smiled widely approaching. Ben Nicholton, what are you doing in town? Running errands for Merkley. Thought we might be able to have a drink while I'm here, Nicholton, what are you doing in town? Running errands for Merkley. Thought we might be able to have a drink while I'm here, Nicholton said, giving him a bro hug. I have two more days before I'm back on the line, Bennett explained.

Excellent, Nicholton declared. He turned to look at Cole and the boys. Why don't you all join us? We don't have any plans, Cole agreed. Major Cole Virgis, this is Sergeant Patrick Bennett. Bennett, this is Virgis and his boys Monroe and Chappy, Nicholton explained. Nice to meet you, fellas, Bennett declared. Where did your uniforms go? We're not in the fight anymore, Cole explained. Is that even possible, Bennett asked, looking at them curiously and then looking at his watch.

I gotta go, Bennett declared. You can let me know when we catch up later. Can't leave the captain waiting. I have to get back to work myself. Join us tonight. And don't let any of these feds hassle you boys, Nicholton insisted, pointing at them as he left. Let's go make sure you get those supplies you need, boys, Bingham commented, leading the men towards a row of warehouses.

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a CPAP for 108 hours, your refrigerator for 26.8 hours. Get to pointzeroenergy.com today for the all American solution to back up power. Hello and welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast. This is episode number 423, season 15, episode 26. Hey, Tim, what's up? Hey, Tim's up, y'all. And we got Mr. James Walton, the intrepid commander in the house with us today. Hey, James, how you doing? Oh, man, with the Changing Earth crew, what could be better? Right. And I've got like so much Changing Earth news because I wasn't here last week

and the whole Earth decides to just upend itself while I'm not doing a show. So we've got a lot of catch-up to do there as well today. Looking forward to it. I got my new Changing Earth merchandise out. Have you checked it out? No. What?

You've got to go over to my website, changingearthseries.com. I have the Knees Not Nuts shirt there. Oh, man. Purchase. Yeah, you can get those in before I forget my last one. Best trivia question of Prepper Camp. What's that? Best trivia question from Prepper Camp.

Yes. Yeah, I couldn't wait for Rick to have to read that one. Roll his eyes out. Blake Not Nuts. So, yeah, the Knees Not Nuts shirts over there. It's pretty cool. I got a cool sweatshirt up there. It was made specifically for Prepper Camp because

I really want a sweatshirt when I'm at Prepper Camp next year. So yeah, all the gears up there. It's cool. You gotta go check it out. We gotta do the bloopers. We gotta do the bloopers up there. It's cool. You got to go check it out. We got to do the bloopers. We got to do the bloopers episode soon. We're ready. Season two or part two of season three is done.

I got the blooper reels all lined up. So I was thinking maybe not next week, but the week after that, we could do the blooper show with everybody. Oh, yeah. It'd be right around Thanksgiving. That's a good time. People be home looking for something to listen to. Man, that Changing Earth hat is sweet. Wow.

Right? That might be my next addition. Yeah, it's a pretty slick one. And that's one I don't have yet, too. The hoodie's nice, too. Wow. It's good quality, as well, because I bought one. I wasn't going to put up garbage for everybody to buy, so I got one in my hands.

I never take it off. I told Brock I was just going to buy another one and throw out all my other sweatshirts. It's going to meld with my flesh, Brock. Right. That's what I'm going to feel like. It just stands in the corner by itself now. That's it. It'll be your punching dummy.

Yeah, it'll be my Bob eventually. You're grappling. James could use it for his grappling stuff. There you go. Yeah. What do you use to grapple with right now? Do you have one of those with the arms? Do you?

It's like six months old. It's new new for me i never messed with one before but i got one and it's pretty cool they got a lot of good youtube videos with guys i was teaching you different drills on those yeah they're good they're good you like that product placement from your podcast, James? What product placement? Who listens to your show? You always do. I know, Chin. I gave you big ups the other day. We were talking tech. Yeah, Chin's the great connector.

I know, I know. Oh my gosh. We're going to have to do a whole other show on that one. Honestly. I made a mistake of telling Rick about it. And I'm getting drug deep into the rabbit hole now.

So, yeah, me. Oh, gosh. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to have to do a whole show on that one. It's interesting. That way we can get more people on board and be able to hop the single along. Oh, definitely.

Yeah, I'm waiting to hear back from them. I'm sure this week they'll pop and we'll see what's what. I bet some will be playing. I've been driving all over the countryside trying to figure it out. Very cool. I appreciate that.

So, we just had the Virgis chapter. The book feels, it's interesting to do it this way because we've been having breaks in between. So everybody's got to keep up on that. You'd have to go back and listen to them in sequence or just buy the audio book. It'll be here soon. It will be eventually.

Sarah's got too many projects. Day After Disaster trailer is what I was working on last week, guys. And that's what just sucked all the creative out of me. I can't do, you know, 48 hours on a computer over the weekend. So that's why we didn't have a show last week. It turned out really cool, didn't it? Oh, yeah. It was amazing. Dave sent it to me.

Dave was like, check this out. I love when people who are not the creators of the content but are on the network send me something someone else from the network has created. I'm like, dude, check out this shit. It's awesome. Well, Dave was stoked because he's like, I made the trailer. That's so cool. So, yeah, that was fun.

I just got off the horn with Dave, literally, like 30 minutes. Yeah, I was interviewing him for mere safety. Mr. Busy. Man. When you talk to Dave Jones about military stuff, you forget. You forget how much you don't know who he is. We were talking all about new weapons

systems and how he thinks they're performing out there. There's just the stuff that he dredges up. It's so wild. He's just done so much. Oh my, it's crazy. He was talking about artillery and how they had a one kilowatt generator that they drug around with them back when they were shooting artillery off.

shooting artillery off and it was literally the only electrical thing that they really used was this was this generator to power this big stupid computer that was the size of a table so it could check their math on artillery uh-huh you know generator was the size of a volkswagen i'm sure that's what he said crazy yeah that that. Everything else was basically off-grid, yeah. Other than comms, you know what I mean? With how far tech has gone. Yeah. Well, that's what we were talking about. Now they only have to pull out their phone, their smartphone.

Right. Well, yeah, he was saying, you know, like, what happens when they have to pull a notebook out and figure out how to launch a missile for real? Oh, it's true. You know what I mean? Yeah, without a weapon system. GPS and all that shit. It's like doing long-range ballistics, right? Trying to shoot a rifle long-range.

Sure. Yeah. A little longer range, though, right? Where's this cruise missile going? Get the calculator. I hope that I got... Where's the abacus at? Yeah, right.

Well, if the Houthi rebels can shoot off cruise missiles, I think I could probably figure it out. Right. Right? Again, it's probably like the cell phone, though. Or something. Oh, definitely. Yeah. Yeah, because those drones and all that stuff

is crazy. I know. I need one. We need a PBbn sponsored predator drone to fly around above for security damn it damn it yeah yeah they had a uh picture the other day of like a drone that encountered um of one of the russian soldiers and the guy surrendered and he's like no you're gonna kill me and the drone's like shaking no at it and like pointing them where to go and stuff i'm like that is insane right yeah war is different now man yeah that's exactly what i was thinking like you don't like you don't even have to be there it's crazy so well today we're talking solar so in virgus they're going into

las vegas and the reason specifically why i wrote this chapter the way i did is because that's a drive i actually do fairly often and i've done for years now because my in-laws moved to texas uh you know quite a few years before we did. So we were driving back and forth from California to Texas a lot. And we go through Vegas because we'd rather drive through Nevada than California. And the last time that we were going into Vegas, literally, you're like climbing the mountain, and you come up over this ravine. and like the whole desert scape is black as far as you can see wow it's solar panels they literally carpeted the desert with solar panels for las vegas and that's wild yeah it was quite breathtaking to see in multiple ways because on one hand, you're like, wow,

that we could do this and create this much power from the sun. And then on the other hand, I was like, whoa, what are you doing to the environment here? Oh, nothing lives in the desert. Well, things actually do. And how does that, you know, how does that change?

Like the heat absorption for the area? I mean, there's just so much we don't know. And then those panels have a lifespan of 25 to 30 years. What do you do when they like start? When you have that many panels that are all going out of commission? What do you do with all that? Right?

Oh, my. You have to make garages out of them. Yeah. And that, yeah. Yeah. Out of the leftover. Goat houses and chicken houses. Right?

So, I really began my like research into, okay, what really is solar? What, you know, is it really, really you know there's a lot of things like lithium is i'm not for it because it's really really destructive to our planet to harvest it um so i wanted to know like what is up with solar and i know we just did our solar commercial and you had the solar j out of Prepper Camp. That was it, that beautiful.0 energy. Oh, it's so beautiful. That thing is nice.

Yeah, and that's something I would definitely think about getting because I could use it for the house or the trailer. I'm pretty sure Dave's neighbor just bought one. Yeah, those are pretty cool. If you guys haven't seen them you should definitely check out those generators i was very impressed with it um when you brought it out

there i'll tell you the only thing about them oh yeah i run the whole rumble live stream every day on it yeah just by the power of the sun but the um the thing about it is do you remember that you probably don you remember that? You probably don't remember that commercial, but we used to have an old, and I got to run it again. I even got permission to run it again. We had an old Sun Oven commercial, and that's how the guy used to say it. It was so funny. But that thing's heavy, though.

Oh, just by the power of the sun. The power of the sun. Yeah, it was great. But it's a heavy rascal. Is it? That's the one downside of that. Well, yeah. I mean, it's metal, you know? And the batteries are big and powerful.

But if you find out where you want it, you know, it's going to do the job. It's awesome. And you can separate it from the battery also. I don't ever do that. I don't take the time to do that. Gotcha. I had a gas powered generator that i used to build the house and i actually just wired it on to like

secured it onto a hand truck it just stayed on the hand yeah drive move it around to wherever i need it on the job site instead of having to pick it up yeah that's what i was gonna say once you upscale generators anyway usually they come on a cart that has wheels on it once you like get up but the hand truck was perfect helped you get it up and down the stairs or whatever i've never really moved it outside of prepper camp it's kind of it's in like the dining room and it's perfect proximity to anything that's going to go out. You know what I mean as far as refrigerators? I about called you up the other night. We had that power failure that I was posting about on the back channel.

Oh, yeah, yeah. It was the craziest thing. Like 2.30 in the middle of the night, the power goes out. There's no storm. It's like in the low 60s there's no right it just went out call for it how long was it out for got out my phone made sure we had a still signal and then i looked to see if there was any major like up and down the east coaster kind of it was weird how long was it out for mp baby it was out for uh about five hours four hours that's that's long that's not i'm just

reset yeah it was yeah and like i said they didn't really talk about it in the news they said it was it happened like 8 000 people what night was that i'm trying to like i was trying to correlate it today it was like overnight thursday friday morning yeah because i was trying to correlate it today. It was like overnight Thursday, Friday morning. Yeah, because I was trying to correlate it today. I looked at the historical data, and it was like no rainfall, zero mile per hour winds, 62 Fahrenheit was the temperature. So it's not like high air conditioner use or high heating use. In the middle of the night, there wasn't like hydro in the middle of night there wasn't high draw on the system right and it was the only thing they said it was five substations

went down and it was like 8 000 people in north carolina were affected by it well could it have anything to do with those with the? Are those near you at all? No, it wasn't by the fires. No, it was east of the fires. Interesting. So, you know, it was too many. If it was like one substation, then you could have said, well, a limb fell on it, a squirrel jumped on it, a car ran into it, whatever. Well, and that's why I was trying to see if it correlated

to any of the solar activity. It can cause just random explosions. How do we lay that over top of the other to kind of figure out if it was a... I don't know, because he just has today's up. I mean, I think it goes back further. And the fifth was when we had the really, really low aurora. Yes, it was the 10th. It was like 2.20, 2.30 a.m. on the 10th.

So it was in the morning. Weird. Yeah. Yeah, it was really weird because I was literally up and awake. And all of a sudden all the lights and everything went out. Oh, man. North Carolina. Weird. Yeah. Yeah, it was really weird because I was literally up and awake and all of a sudden all the lights and everything went out. Oh, man. North Carolina. Weirdos. I'm just kidding.

Hey, I heard that. All right, so solar panels. Let's talk solar panels because then you could just, you have solar though, right? You just don't have a battery backup. I have both, yeah. You have solar, though, right? You just don't have a battery backup? I have both, yeah. You have both? But that's at the house we're building. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, fair enough.

Okay, got you. And I'm down at the house trailer. So I don't have it here. Well, soon enough. Well, okay, so overall, in my research on solar, I was like, they're made mostly from silicon, which is pretty easy to obtain, as opposed to other chemicals. The silica dusk, if you breathe it for a long time, you can get

lung cancer, but if you use the water, yeah. Well, it's not lung cancer, but it's a lung issue where it just hardens the inside of your lungs, so it's not lung cancer, but it's like a lung issue where it's just hardens the inside of your lungs. So it's just harder to breathe. Oh, great. But is that from manufacturing or is that from like on-site? Yeah, that's like in a manufacturing facility. Yeah. Even at the mining areas, it's really minimal.

What? Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, that wasn't a huge deal. They worry sometimes about accidental discharges into the waterways, but that also is like it happens and then it's a silt. So, I mean, it just dissipates into the water. They use a lot of groundwater to get it, to mine it.

So that's one of the concerns. Like if you have a closed system system they're using like 18,000 gallons a day so if they're recycling that the water that they're using if they have an open system they're using two million gallons of water per day to mine out the silicon so wow yeah that's why the sea levels are going down exactly so like if you're tapping a lake or a natural water source to do that you're going to use a lot of water um unless you're actually like actively recycling the water that your mind's using um so that was really the worst the they use a poly this was interesting polycremol I'm going to slaughter it. Polycrylamide. An acid to mine it.

And the polycralamide or whatever, it's a neurotoxin, but they actually use it to treat water and waste water. So like they know it's a neurotoxin, but they still use it because it degrades

quickly and turns into CO2, ammonia, and nitrogen. So it's a neurotoxin, but they still use it because it degrades quickly and turns into CO2, ammonia, and nitrogen. So it's like in our tap water. There's neurotoxins in the tap water. Explains a lot. Yeah, right? So that was a rather interesting tidbit, but I guess it dissipates so quickly it's safe so um the reclaimed land when they're done mining it within three years uh agricultural like if you're gonna plant it within three years it'll grow 73 of what normal soil will so like even after that what's that i said that ain't bad

right three-year turnaround i know that's why i thought i was like okay you know it's not as bad as like the lithium mine stuff like that you see um so gallium is a chemical that chemical that they use um this is a really interesting metal it melts at a super low temperature uh so like if it's on the table and you pick it up, it'll melt through your hands because of the heat of your hand and then harden again when it hits the table. Whoa. Yeah.

They need to put some M&M coating on it. Some M&M coating on it. Right? 85.57 degrees Fahrenheit melting point. Yeah. So, they actually um it comes from like zinc ores and box of site so it's not like a free element on its own they

have to like get it from other um ores that they're digging um and it's actually a byproduct of when they make aluminum and zinc products so i mean that's not too bad either, except that it's not very prevalent in the Earth's crust. It makes up like 0.0019%. So that's, it's just not, when they want to uptick the production of solar panels, that's going to be an issue. Let's see. So pros and cons. pros and cons of solar panels because everybody's gone through this i think what what was your biggest reason for getting solar panels chin mine yeah a backup having backup power it was one right fair scenario did you get solar? And coming from the coast I mean, I came from the coast where Everything was, you know, power outages

Whether it be storms and rain Or in the winter we have ice, you know, on trees So I was always worried about power Gotcha What about you, James? Have you gotten solar at all? Yeah, we got a little bit not nothing tremendous but um i'm i'm noticing the movement of the panels is something that i have to deal with more than i thought i would uh and it's just because of i live in like the forest right it's like a forest neighborhood

you know what i mean yeah and as the seasons are changing yeah as the seasons are changing i'm also in a valley so the sun is you know creeping above my roof and they're in the backyard and it's like oh these gotta go it's not just it it's even more than a matter of like i just got to back them up away from the house further things have changed with the sun a lot already and they got to be basically relocated i think yeah as the sun moves and it's rotation like in the winter yeah it goes lower so it's harder i mean the good thing is you don't have a lot of pine right so yeah or do you no i don't know not a lot yeah mostly just mostly hickory at one of the um self-reliance expos that i went to um they had a solar flower there

and it was like on its own trailer too so you can move it around easier and it would like literally close itself down in a storm and then open up and chase the sun like a flower would. And then it closed back down. Did you see that sun oven at camp on the trailer? Portrait device. Oh, that thing. Yeah.

That's a, that's a Swenson tool right there. Yeah. You're going in the sun oven. It's just, yeah, it's prison. That's all.

Yeah. Forrest is going to use that thing as a prison. We have ways of making you speak. That's it. Yeah, so energy independence, big reason for solar paneling. The reduction of the electric bill. Yeah, they are definitely great. I connected to the grid, so I'm not, like, off-grid. Right.

But I have both. I have options now, you know? Yeah, and then Cali, they're doing that a bunch because, like, the power there is so expensive. So, I'm not, my solar system doesn't, like, sell back to the grid. Okay, yeah, you're completely separated. I have, like, the power company came to my house, Okay, yeah, you're completely separated. The power company came to my house, so I have power, but I also have a solar

system that's hardwired into the house that has specific things that'll work if I have to, or if I want to. Then I also put, since I was building from scratch, I put the outlet on the outside of the house where I can plug a generator in. Oh, nice.

We can have game night here anytime you want. The Christmas tree is going to stay lit. There you go. No matter what comes. I don't know. I was turned off a little bit by the price point of solar still. And then like, so if you're going to pay like 18 grand for it or whatever,

and then the panels are only going to last 25 years. I was like, right. Like two roofs. Yeah. You know? Yeah. So I don't know.

I think having, having a leg, it's what it seems like to me has been really nice is having enough. You know what I mean? It's like having enough. Now, you might hear me singing a different tune if we ever get smacked with one of those serious EMP, you know, throw ups out of the sun. But for day to day life and day to day inconvenience, snowstorms, power outage, short-term, even medium-term, really. But if we have EMP,

your day-to-day life is going to be different anyway. So your solar setup is probably going to be, especially yours, James, it's probably going to be more than ample for what you need to do, right? That's a good point. What kind of battery system are you using? probably going to be more than ample for what you need to do, right? That's a good point. That's a good point. What kind of battery system are you using? Do you have a battery system, James? Oh, yeah.

I use exactly what you saw at Prepper Camp. Yeah. It's built, right? Yeah, fair enough. It's 2,000 watts. Yeah, it's sweet. I mean, it takes a lot to wear that thing down to nothing. But, you know, from a convenience standpoint, and this could also be a detriment if you have a gas generator, I'm sure it'll be something I'll have to get used to.

From a convenience standpoint, especially for like kids and wife, it's way cool to be like, oh, power's out. Turn it on. Yeah, go plug something into that if you need it or whatever. We late recently underwent the cheapest and most effective emergency lighting upgrade anyone could ever do. I think all told, and I haven't even put them all up yet, but all told, I think that the upgrade, quote unquote, was like, I don't know, $45, something like that. But they have these little white strip lights that are battery-powered LEDs. And we started putting them behind all our TVs and by the mirrors in the bathrooms and then up the banister. And, dude, at least from a light light standpoint this is as good as it gets you know i think they're about 15 10 or 15 feet something like that and you can conceal them really easy and then when the power goes out we just go click click click you know whatever rooms

we're in click click click uh-huh they take three double a batteries and your whole house is lit up. Yeah, and putting them by the mirrors is smart. Oh, dude, it's so great. It's like an under, probably under $50 upgrade anybody could do tomorrow with Amazon. And just get the battery-powered ones with the switch. And it's just, oh, God, power outages like nothing now. It's like, oh, I got to go to the bathroom to run one with no windows. You know what I mean? And you got to go get a candle or a flashlight or whatever.

It's like you just walk in, click. Oh, it's the best. That is cool. That's the way to do it. That's like those ones they used to sell that were like the little ones you just stick to the wall. They're like the little pop them ones. Oh, yeah, yeah. Right?

Uh-huh. Yep. Yeah. I noticed that like the people that lived here before us had a ton of those little pop-em. I find the little circles around and I'm like, hmm, that would be a good idea. I love the ones that looked like a light switch and they had a switch on them.

The little LED ones. You put the batteries in and it just sticks to the wall. Or they had the magnet or anything. I had those all over the place. At the last house, the closets. They're so good. Every, on a nightstand. Because you could just flip it on, and then you move it around if you need it. The LED tech is so bright and so cheap.

I did it just up the railing, just on a whim. You know what I mean? I was like, let me run this thing up the railing, up the steps, because it's dark there anyway. And then when I installed it i was like oh god we need these everywhere this is it so yeah um i was just chatting with garden girl in the chat um oh the what gets me the i'm afraid of the hail with the solar because we were like kind of thought about doing them on our roof our roof is really pitched and not really the best kind of roof for solar. But the uptake of the hailstorms really

has me spooked. And they're like, oh, well, we use this tempered glass and it's supposed to make sure that your panels don't crack. Right? You would think right now that they'd have like a

safety glass or something over them? Like in the car, you have the automatic... An airbag for your solar panels when it starts hailing? The airbags, yeah. Like they'd have automatic airbags for... That would be epic. I know. I think every time in my car, when they're parked outside, it's like, why is there not like a hail cover blanket thing?

That you could do. That's a good call. They do have hail netting for crops. But some, you know, once it gets too big. Yeah, but what about my car? Yeah, right? We'll put it in the garage. We'll put it in the garage.

I'll tell you what they do need to come up with, though, and what a solar company should do is, obviously, installation and all that kind of stuff you're going to have professionals do. But repair, they need to create solar panels that can be repaired by the homeowner easily. You know what I mean? Like, oh, it cracked. Yeah, trade it out. And then you just slide this out and slide a new one in. Yeah, something like that. Well, they're doing, like, solar shingles now even. That's kind of cool.

Yeah. Right? And blinds, where, like, your blinds will also collect the solar energy. So that's kind of neat. I don't know how the— I like those ideas. Yeah, I don't know how the shingles hold up. I know they do the roads and stuff in India, right?

Don't they do, like, solar roads in India or something? I don't know, but shingles hold up. I know they do the roads and stuff in India, right? Don't they do like solar roads in India or something? I don't know, but that'd be a smart-ass idea. I thought somebody done some solar roads. Actually, they were talking about... Go ahead, I'm sorry. I guess the panels can withstand like an inch big hail up to an inch, 25 millimeters of stones falling at 50 miles an hour. And then anything that's over that.

What's terminal velocity for him? Right? Yeah, so anything that's over that, like, nope, can't do it. They built them to withstand wind factors of up to 140 miles an hour. So like they said, when the hurricane Sandy hit over New Jersey, their solar infrastructure there actually did really,

really well. Now, did the roof get ripped off? That's a different story. But the solar system actually didn't get really well. But wildfire, they're done. Wildfire, they'll just burn yeah melt so that's why i was like well as the earth gets more extreme is this the solution i don't know but i was more impressed with solar than i thought i was going to be when i started

researching it as far as like what the chemical compounds and stuff in it were the biggest thing when they are in a landfill is the lead because they use lead as the soldering uh material for um all the wiring that kind of stuff that makes sense yeah and so yeah we're kind of used to that would be fairly easy to to recoup back out. Yeah, they're saying it's just difficult because of the way they sandwich it all and everything. By 2050, they're saying that there's going to be up to 78 million metric tons of solar panels at the end of their life. Wow. And the world will be generating six million metric tons

of new solar e-waste each year after that so we definitely need to figure out something to do with it yeah like on a worldwide i'm not a big fan of uh i'm not a big fan of waste generation projections especially not with technology now. You know what I mean? Because solar panels might be like the size of a wristwatch by 2050. That's 25 years. You know what I mean?

That's a long way. I can't imagine some clunky ass... My watch has a solar panel in it. So somebody gets off their butt and learns solar panel in it. I think they're just projecting it. So somebody gets off their butt and learns how to recycle it. And fixes it. Yeah, that's a good call. Right.

But just imagine, like, Christian gets a house. You know what I mean? Right. And he's got his kids and his family in that house. And he's got them big rectangle panels that we have right now. You would be like, this is so bad. What happened? Right.

Why did we stop innovating okay so good news about solar they are very emc and or emp and cme proof okay so like the battery bank as long as it doesn't have its wiring to it it's pretty solid against a cme or an emp same with the panels and a lot of the pieces that don't hold like the circuitry so it's your connecting wires the diode strings that they facilitate the power transfer to the battery those can be affected and then if they're hooked to the systems at the time they can surge and then destroy the panel or the battery system right so when it gets all like hit with the energy so they were saying um solark s-o-l-a-r-k they have an emp proof solar inverter yep and also you can install surge protectors uh at you know your the entrance to your battery and your panels so that those surges can't get there.

And then they're actually pretty CME proof. I wonder if EMP Shield's got a solar system unit now. Right. I know they started doing all kinds of stuff with homes. Oh, there you go. Generator model. Solar and wind protection. You see?

That was also like really, really encouraging news to learn about solar. So maybe we are. There's a battery that, ah, damn it. I should have listened to the Godfather a little closer. I was talking to Rick about it, and he put solar up not long ago. Shin, maybe you know. He chose a battery over another specifically for emp it's a lithium battery that wasn't good because it had it had a little like circuit boards in it as part of how it controls it so that's that was the weak point got you

so he got the nickel it's the circuit boards anything that had the weak point. Got you. So he got the nickel. It's the circuit boards. Anything that had the circuit boards in it was a weak point. Because those are your conductors inside of the. That and my gosh, you have to like sell one of your children to buy one of those batteries. They're so expensive. Yeah. The Tesla batteries are insane. So the nickel cobalt manganese.

I guess that's what he opted for. That's actually what I have on the – Yeah. You can get both. I got that one on the.0 energy. Yeah. That's where – that's the direction I'm going. I think that's just the bomb because, like I say, I can throw up my trailer.

Boom. Now we got power whenever we stop and whatnot. Oh, dude. Yeah. Keep it at home for the house. You'd be like the Taj Mahal in your RV with that thing. You can just pull into Love's or whatever.

And it doesn't make noise. It's not crazy and like running the whole time. It just drives me nuts. That noise. That's brutal. I feel like generator hunters would be one of the first group of marauders.

It's so true. Wouldn't you? I mean, wouldn't you? Yeah, because you'd be like, let's just go find a generator. Yeah, you know that. You have cool stuff that you're playing with, or you have valuable stuff that you're trying to keep climate controlled. Yeah, exactly. No, it's so true.

My neighbor moved up from Oakland in California. He was the awesomest guy. He shot his guns for like a month straight because he could shoot in his own backyard, you know. Yeah, it was great. Sweet. So I knew he was my kind of people. And then the power went out, though. And we had the power out for like a week.

And his generator ran nonstop. of people and then the power went out though and we had the power out for like a week and his generator ran non-stop like it would go out you'd hear it like you're like oh thank god he's he's finally done fill her up he filled it back up i'm like oh geez are you serious right now yeah yeah it Yeah, it was pretty bad. So like I say, all in all, at the end of the day, with my solar research, I am encouraged. I think it's a pretty cool system. See, that's why you listen to Changing Earth Podcast. I know. Yeah.

I mean, it is a shame to see, like, man, it was pretty breathtaking to see, like, thousands. It's got to be millions of solar panels across the desert there, like I say, outside of Vegas. You look out. I've seen it here in South Carolina on 26th for several years now. There's little solar farms popping up along the side of the road. Yeah, it's insane. So I don't know like what i mean we're reactionary once we create something then we're going to react to the problem we

created right so it'll be interesting to kind of track how all that works out for them uh with all those panels there but you know it's a big city and they need the infrastructure it's a good way to get power even though they have the hoover dam sitting right there i don't know if they're planning for like when the hoover goes dry or what but i don't know right so yeah that's what i was thinking when you talked about all those solar panels i said that sounds like contingency planning to me right exactly why why has chin got it just in case right well i think vegas has the same theory going on so i bet um for for the interested, I bet Point Zero Energy is going to do something pretty big for Black Friday. And when I say pretty big, those guys do 30% off. All right.

It's not a little 10% or 20%. They do 30% off their systems. And that's, man, if you're going to get it, that's the time. That's the time. You let me know when that happens. I will. They don't let me know. I got to get them on the horn and find out. Okay. Yeah.

I usually find out by accident and rush to tell everybody. Change up the ads. Yeah. Alrighty, well, I'm going to jump into some Change in Earth news. Are you going to stick around with us for the Change in Earth news, or you got Rugrats to go run after? Okay. I mean, they can Rugrat a little longer there already.

Alright, let's play some weather music. Alright, I've cut the weather music a little short today because I got a lot of change in earth news because we missed the week. Like I say, just tons of stuff happened while I decided to take a little hiatus. So we're going to do a little catch up first.

So today there is a CME inbound right now. It's not anything to worry about, but again, it should make make some we need to keep our eye on the auroras uh if you haven't heard about what's going on with the auroral activity on our planet it is insane right now um the aurora came all the way down to the panhandle of texas in a minor geomagnetic storm like super minor and. And Europe was like so red, it was like blood red in the sky. So that is insane. It should not happen that way unless we have like a major X class flare. And we haven't seen any of that activity lately. Thank goodness,

because the magnetic shielding on our planet is so weak that they're thinking that just a high M class at this point could really, really be bad news for our technology. So we're definitely keeping our eyes on that, keeping our eyes on the sun because that is insane. Chin, Northern Carolina wildfire was right by Prepper Camp. Is everything okay at Orchard Lake Campgrounds? As far as I know, I haven't heard any any bad tales any news reports so i've had them in my prayers man it was north of it it wasn't like right there but it was something that i was scary yeah so all right

so let's recap from a couple so a couple ago. There's been strong storms hitting southern Brazil, lots of flooding, lots of homes lost there and just flooded homes. We had the cyclone that hit Yemen and Oman, caused massive flooding there. A big storm hit Colombia. Roofs collapsed due to the weight of the hail on the roof. So that's how much hail came down. They're not used to taking a snow load there in Colombia. So all the weight of the hail was literally collapsing roofs of homes and businesses.

Bangladesh, the coastline had to evacuate 1.5 million people. They had 65 mile an hour winds coming in. It caused a lot of destruction. 60 plus people injured and at least two people died in that event. When I was on the air two Sundays ago, we knew about the devastation that happened in Acapulco. Have you seen pictures of that, James? No. Oh, this hurricane hit Acapulco square on it turned from a tropical storm

to a cat five in a matter of moments and just slammed acapulco you really got to go onto youtube and look at um what happened to that city it is crazy um the world decided to turn a blind eye to what happened to acapulco and like nobody's reacting. The government is much more concerned about rebuilding military bases and stuff and just leaving the hotel owners and all of the people that were devastated there to just kind of figure out

what they're going to do now because it seriously looks like Armageddon. The buildings are just crazy. The amount of glass and just shattered and then the flooding so uh if you haven't checked that out on youtube yeah trees chewed up and everything oh yeah it was gnarly like really gnarly um usa was hit with the first winter storm up north up north doha was hit with some severe thunderstorms, lots of flooding, property damage.

That's the city that has the big sail building, and that's pretty cool if you haven't checked that out. Central Texas, we had a series of tornadoes touchdown in the San Antonio area. And then the big story is eastern Africa, the flooding that they are experiencing. It started really with the devastation that was happening in Kenya. Three people died about they had to evacuate like 200,000 people on the move from the flooding there. Unfortunately, that situation is just growing worse. Hundreds of acres of farmland have already been destroyed, and at least 15 people are dead. That's probably going to get worse as they're able to.

The floodwaters are still rising. So, yeah, it's been crazy. And that's going to continue on even into this week. Argentina was hit with a series of wildfires. They have burning out of control. Argentina was hit with a series of wildfires. They have burning out of control. Hungary had massive windstorm that came through with hurricane force winds and a tornado touchdown associated with that event.

It really just happened for a matter of moments, but did a lot of damage along the way. Puerto Rico, the northern side of Puerto Rico, is absolutely flooding in a state of emergency. Saudi Arabia was hit multiple times. Heavy rain, flooding. Mecca, the city of Mecca, has been most affected by the flooding. So that's never good. They have a lot of people coming to visit Mecca all the time, and it's been a mess over there.

Unfortunately, that situation just got worse during the week as well. Northern France got hit by a severe storm. When I was on the air two weeks ago, we had the storm that was hitting the UK causing just massive amounts of flooding in that. And then it moved on into Europe. And then Europe got hit with the bomb cyclone, Kirin, and it caused flooding across the UK again. Netherlands got a piece of that. Pretty much all of Europe was being flooded. And then Spain had this crazy wildfire that just appears out of season in Spain as they're getting all these floodwaters over in the other part of Europe. So it's been really touch and go there.

Australian Outback is now on fire. They have 59 wildfires going. It's about 24,000 hectares of land, 53 homes destroyed. Jamaica was hit by a 5.6 earthquake i know that's why i said like it just all decided to break loose while i was not you know doing my show um el salvador also got hit strong flooding power out trees down there and then northern italy um is getting creamed again and if you've been following the show they've just been getting hit after hit this year. They're estimating something like $6 billion in damages

from natural disasters this year. It's been insane there. So settling down into November 4th, there was 396 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.0 in the Mariana Islands. Bulgaria got hit with a tornado, 150 roofs ripped off in Lavinia, massive property damage, power outages, of course.

Greece got hit with the remnants of Kirin. They had cars literally blown over in the parking lot and lots of property damage, rain and wind damage. Indonesia had a major flooding event. And Indonesia, man, they're just getting hit all the time with flooding events. So it's got to be a wild ride to live in that place. It's just again and again. And if you look at the history of that.

Decades. Right? Yeah. That island chain, like the ocean level has been coming up so long, for so long. You have to wonder if those islands will be there forever. 5th of November, there was 488 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger. Biggest of which was a 5.7 if not 2. That is the day that the g3 solar storm

came in that was from two ejections that formed together into one and brought the auroras all the way down to texas um portugal france um dominguez another tropical or another bomb cyclone comes in right after kieran had just left two days later they get hit with domingos and this one yeah it wasn't as bad but it still brought in like 92 mile an hour winds so some parts of france and portugal still got really really slammed by the storm somalia starts experiencing these flash flooding events like um nepal was or like kenya was having they had 29 people dead on the 5th of november 300 000 people displaced and both kenya and ethiopia are also experiencing this flooding massive landslides the farmlands being destroyed and just thousands of people displaced by this

flooding that's happening there this is after they've had four decades of drought. So it is just, so as the week goes on, it becomes the rain event of the century. They haven't seen this much flooding there in a century. So we got another hundred year storm this year. Oh, and that's what I was going to say about the Aurora too. So in the last decade, the amount of times that the Aurora reaches down to places like the Texas panhandle and things like that, it's happened twice in the past decade, right? This year alone, it's happened six times in just this year. Yeah. It's like, things are are like we're getting the signs that like things are askew we need to be ready for this um canada's fires are finally chilling out they're they're reporting about the aftermath uh 6th of november 414 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger biggest

of which was a 5.5 in the South Atlantic Ocean. 414 is still a really high number. So the earth is still rocking and rolling at 414 earthquakes. Malaysia flooded. They had 1,000 people in evacuation centers, 3.2 foot high floodwaters. Indonesia, or I mean India, southern India, they're going into their monsoonal systems so they're seeing massive flooding got like five point inches of rain in like an hour eastern china saw their first snowfall was unusually heavy first major um blizzard of the season and it came in pretty darn early so they're wondering about that also the storm that we got

was pretty early um one of their gymnasiums collapsed and three students died in that event. Southern Mexico, this is way down in the south. They're having flooding events where they're actually having sinkholes that are opening up in the earth, causing massive infrastructure damage and just rivers to overflow. Northern France, they're still having the flooding from the massive amounts of storms that they have come through they're estimating that wine production uh this year is down um to the lowest levels in 60 years so stack up on your wine. Glad I made my own this year. 7th of November, 455

earthquakes, or 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.6 in the Philippine Sea by the North Mariana Islands. Nepal had a 5.6 earthquake among many other aftershocks that they've been having. They had their big earthquake over there.

Japan, there's a new isle forming to the south of Tokyo in Japan because of the volcanic eruptions that have been happening there. So it's actually forming a new isle out in the ocean, which is always cool to see the changing earth. Speaking of changes from the changing earth, when Hillary, Hurricane Hillary came in, there's now a lake out in Death Valley from that storm. It'll probably be a temporary lake,

but you know, changing earth, things are happening. In the United States, we've also seen 400 earthquakes since mid-July at Mount St. Helens. So we definitely have to keep our eyes on that. Southern Ontario was hit with a large hailstorm. Michigan was also hit by that storm. November 8th, we had 491 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 7.1 in the Banda Sea.

We had a 5.2 earthquake hit West Texas. So just crazy. Yeah, big earthquakes that are not supposed to be in Texas area. Well, you know, it's waking up. Australia. Okay, this is interesting. They're having cases of thunderstorm asthma. Like a thousand people

in the hospital. Yeah. So thunderstorms mixed with high grass pollen levels are causing asthma cases to flare. Oh, it's kicking it up. Right? So I don't know. They're also

down there where they're going to get hit by a lot more of the solar energy as it enters our planet. And the pole with the way the pole's moving and that, I've got to wonder. You know, there's all kinds of weird stuff going on with mammals because of the solar energy. So we just

got to keep our eyes on that kind of thing. Solar is crazy. Right? It all comes together um virginia is also having wildfires the state was put into a state of emergency did you hear anything about that james that's your neck hell no i didn't even know that yeah what the wet i guess up in the mountains yeah yeah western uh area like uh even as of today, 8,451 acres burning in Virginia. It's number

one on the wildfire list. Wow! Yeah. Eight fires burning. Four of them are contained. The only thing I heard is Democrats took over the House and Senate. Yeah, I wanted to beat my head against the wall

over that one. That's probably why it's all on fire. Actually, somebody just said, screw it, burn the whole state down. We can't turn this thing around. So we got pissed and threw their cigarette out or something. Yeah. All right. November 9th, we had 349 earthquakes, 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 6.0 in Argentina.

Pretty big one. Paraguay, they are literally having neighborhoods destroyed by flooding. There's more rain coming their way right now. 5.2 earthquake in West Texas again. So it got double hit. The activity is definitely increasing. They are doing a fair amount of fracking out there and stuff. You got to wonder.

The activity is definitely increasing. They are doing a fair amount of fracking out there and stuff. You got to wonder. November 10th, 1,221 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger. Wow. That's the biggest I've ever seen. 1,221. True.

Right? That is our planet reacting to what it's doing right now as far as it's spinning a little bit faster it's making all the magnetics move and things it's very interesting time to be alive there was also 1400 earthquakes in iceland they literally had to close the Blue Lagoon, which is a real place. And they had 1,000 earthquakes in just the last 24 hours. So that was pretty insane on the 10th. And then where's my other Iceland information? They literally are, yeah, Port in Iceland, they evacuated this whole town because they've had 1,400 earthquakes in the last 24 hours. So they have some major volcanic concerns going there.

On the 11th, we had 800 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger. Again, biggest numbers I've ever seen. Banda Sea, Indonesia, was our biggest earthquake. Kansas had a 4.0. The Dominican Republic had a 5.3. Northern France is just still reeling from all their heavy rain and flooding. Tasmania had severe thunderstorms. And then as of today, we still have the North Carolina fires going.

There's another fire in Hawaii, in Oahu, that's burning down a lot of forests there right now so that's again very interesting on why that's happening in hawaii are things just getting hotter underneath maybe um in somalia the death toll grew to 31 with 500 000 people displaced by the flooding there. Hundreds of thousands of people are literally just isolated by these floodwaters. And as of today, there's 29 volcanoes erupting. So it's still a really high number for us. 30 is the most I've ever seen on our planet erupting at one time. 13 showering minor activity. That's still a low number. I think they're all just like they don't want to report that it's minor activity. They're just jumping from unrest into erupting. And then 30 volcanoes showing unrest. So that's another high number again there.

Right now in the United States, 28,939 acres are burning. That is really low for the United States numbers as it should be being that we're coming into winter like i said virginia is number one with 8 451 acres on fire then north carolina with 5 888 acres on fires this is from five fires and none of them are contained kentucky came in number three which crazy because they were just having flooding there uh 5100 acres on fire 22 fires that's a lot of fires and 11 of them are contained arizona is number four with 3414 acres burning three fires and none of those are contained so uh way to go east coast you just picked up the wildfire numbers there yeah i have a feeling we'll see more fires if things keep up right yeah maybe not necessarily changing earth fires if you know what i mean right i know i uh it'll be interesting coming

into this election um it's it's really uh really a shame to see what they're doing to the political system but maybe this will be the unraveling you know so let's hope yeah where we can drip out some of the corruption and get back to the people actually given a

a hoot it's it's owned on both sides you know so for sure so yeah changing earth man it just went crazy the last couple It's owned on both sides, you know? Oh, for sure. So, yeah. Change in earth, man. It just went crazy the last couple weeks. A lot of flooding events.

No, you looked away. Yeah. I did. For like a second. And I was like... So... That'll be an interesting winter. Oh, yeah.

That's what I'm betting on. From this moment forth, it's going to be very interesting everywhere. Right? I mean, it already is crazy. How much more interesting can it get, right? I know. I know. Well, we'll just take it as it comes. Everybody's like, oh, a bah humbug and stuff.

And I'm like, I don't know. If you're going to live during a time, what an exciting time to be alive that is the truth right that is the truth well james thanks so much for coming on the show i knew you'd be like the the solar man when i saw the unit this at prepper camp i was like oh yeah oh yeah that is the answer to uh what we've been looking for and you can keep that inside right all the time mine never goes outside right yeah mine runs with the solar panels run right into the house you know yep and and it sits like right next to my work desk literally boom it's cake man i'm telling you it's way easier than i thought and uh you know the convenience

of it is is serious and i don't have any experience with other like jackery units and that kind of stuff but i've been blown away by how long you can run things on that unit off of that unit yeah yeah especially power out what's like the lifespan of its of its batteries and stuff like does it oh it's in a thousand tens tens of thousands of hours or something like it's crazy long that's awesome it's on the website i can't remember exactly but it's you know it's one of those numbers where you're like i'll be dead but i won't wear through that. Yeah. Good luck, kid. You might have to replace it. I like that. I like that.

Alrighty. And of course, where do you got links for it for where we can get it through PBN? Well, actually for them, we don't really have a cool discount code or anything. Just go to point zero energy.com we've had a very interesting partnership with them where we've just kind of been they're spreading the brand name as as far and as wide as they can and uh you know we just pump them wherever we can so just go visit them directly i if i were you like i said out there listening i'd wait um maybe another week and see what they do for for back friday because i imagine you're going to get that 30 off yeah that's so true i'm going to remember that because i i literally have money earmarked for our generator right now so yeah yeah 26 hours of refrigerator. Uh-huh. And ain't bad. So true.

So, yeah. Thanks for having me on, Sarah. Because I always worry about stuff that's in the freezer, right? So. Oh, yeah. If you can run it long enough to be able to, like, if it was going to be a long-term situation to get it sorted without losing all that stuff, you know. That's 26 hours consistent, right?

Continuous, yeah. Yeah, so you would have 26 hours consistent, right? Continuous, yeah. Yeah, so you would have to keep it plugged in the whole time. Right, right. Plug it in and out. Plug it in during the day while it's getting cranked up by the sun. Yep. Oh yeah, that's days worth. That's days worth of refrigeration, even if you didn't

focus on just refrigeration, you know. So long as you can keep the kids out of it. Yeah, yeah. Open and close, open and close. Well, yeah, thanks for coming on, James. Hopefully everybody goes over there and check it out. PBN and then check out Change Your Earth and, you know, support us, do all that good stuff. Always a pleasure to be back with you guys and to have you on the show and everything.

So I really, really appreciate your time. Thank you. We appreciate it. It's been a blast. All right. All right. Have a good night, everyone. Until next time, remember dream survive.

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