I’m guessing it depends on the destination, but it’s definitely something making a plan requiring apostille should be aware is a possibility.
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Talk to your installer about that, explaining exactly the scenarios you want it to work for. As you’re probably aware, some solar inverters work during a blackout, most don’t.
If the inverter can generate and push power into the grid, the power companies don’t want that happening when their crews are doing maintenance, or if they’ve cut power because a tree knocked down a line and might start a fire, etc. To make that work, most residential inverters are “grid following” rather than “grid forming”.
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Already looked into that. Need a cut off so that if power goes out, the grid is cut off until power is restored. More expensive, but worth it.
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Is this new?
I don’t remember seeing this until the past few weeks, but maybe I wasn’t looking for it.
Real milk. In a box. No refrigeration necessary. Good until November. We will see.
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We used to have something similar when I was a kid, that we’d take to the cottage. Multi-milk. I don’t think it was exactly the same thing though; I recall that it tasted weird.
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That particular brand? Dunno.
Milk in a carton that doesn’t need refrigeration? Been around since at least the 80s. It was called UHT back then. I’m not super-fond of the taste; it seems that the more extreme Pasteurization alters the flavour.
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Yeah, that’s UHT milk up here. It lasts. It has been preserved at a higher temperature and that does change the flavour.
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I’m going to try a lot of this stuff. I will report back.
I have also found the “Rye Crisp” has been rebranded as “Crispy Bread” for some reason. That too has an expiration date on it, but as I recall it could last for years.
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Yes. It’s been around for years. I’ve used it in the single serve boxes when I didn’t have refrigeration. Mostly in coffee.
But remember- it requires refrigeration after you open the box.
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Some years back we had a blizzard that knocked out power for a week. Luckily we had a big ol’ bag of tea light candles because my wife loves them for atmosphere. A bunch of those all lit up under a cookie sheet made some burgers and hot dogs that really hit the spot after a few days of eating cold food. We also had pots that we brought snow in from outside and melted in front of the fireplace for water.
Here we don’t have a fireplace, so warmth would be more of a concern. But the house is at least better insulated.
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We had it here in the 1960s, so it’s been around for a long time.
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Yes, it is UHT pasteurization. I usually just have milk in coffee or over cereal, so I imagine the flavor won’t be too much of an issue.
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You get used to it, and then regular milk tastes funny if you go back to it.
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Unless your cereal is extremely sugary/flavorful, you’ll probably notice.
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We will see.
20 years ago, I used to buy Parmalat milk in the normal plastic jugs from my grocery store’s refrigerated section. I liked it, because it was the one brand of milk that did not spoil in my refrigerator. But then came the Parmalat Scandal and it totally disappeared.
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Nancy? Nancy Crater?
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My dad put in a (ETA: ostensibly portable) generator* & the electrician (perhaps had to) put in a cutoff switch. For the generator to power the house, he has to flip a metal lever that cuts off the incoming 220V. Of course, this means that the whole thing is a manual process (including starting up the generator). But his bigger concern is not reliving the winter of 2021 so if he’s got to flip a switch in the garage & then go out & start an engine, so be it.
*The generator itself, IIRC, can switch from the home’s gas line to a built-in gasoline tank, in case the gas is cut off, too.
On the other hand, we have several neighbors who installed (ETA: permanent fixture-type) generators after 2012, when we didn’t have power for about a week. When the power does go out**, I’ll hear them all fire up & run, no intervention on their part. So if I said there must be a way to do it, OTOH I don’t think any of those homes have solar 
**Thankfully not as often nor for as long as it used to. After 2012, the local utilities did a lot of tree trimming around the power lines though this makes for some really awkward-looking frontage around here.
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Heh, I had to deep-dive that reference.
Thanks for the workout! I barely remembered any of that.
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