[vtsnowedin]

The big problem with generators is that they are expensive and will therefore be stolen. Shoe me an anti theft device and I will show you a determined thief.

How difficult is it to keep your generator indoors in the garage? If you don't have a garage, probably a generator isn't for you anyway.

Generators are kept or housed outside main buildings so the exhaust fumes cannot enter living quarters. Most weigh over 500 lbs and are often bolted down to concrete slabs. Not an easy thing to steal or to fence.
Evan my 5KW weighs about 200 and has wheels and a lifting point so the tractor can lift it into the pickup bed when needed. My daughter's is mounted on a small deck at the end of her house about six feet above the ground to get it above flood level. It is a whole house unit that weighs about 2000lb. and is plumbed into the gas line and hard wired to the breaker box. It exercises itself weekly for about fifteen minutes or until the starter battery regains full .charge.

[theluckycountry]

Nearly half of EU exposed to 'warning' drought levels, report says -euronews
Around 46% of the EU is exposed to "warning" drought levels while 11% is exposed to the higher "alert" level, it said. "A staggering portion of Europe is currently exposed to warning and alert drought levels, associated with either soil moisture deficit or its combination with vegetation stress," the report's authors said.

The drought is threatening a large percentage of Italy's agricultural production, with the country's farming lobby saying almost half of Italian farms are at risk with crops devastated by drought and high temperatures. They estimate that the damage has already exceeded three billion euros.

Climate change in action, heatwaves and droughts! Welcome to the new millennia.

Life on earth is a fragile affair, orders of magnitude more so when your civilization depends on large interconnected networks of fuels and fertilizers and transport.

[vtsnowedin]

Nearly half of EU exposed to 'warning' drought levels, report says -euronews
Around 46% of the EU is exposed to "warning" drought levels while 11% is exposed to the higher "alert" level, it said. "A staggering portion of Europe is currently exposed to warning and alert drought levels, associated with either soil moisture deficit or its combination with vegetation stress," the report's authors said.

The drought is threatening a large percentage of Italy's agricultural production, with the country's farming lobby saying almost half of Italian farms are at risk with crops devastated by drought and high temperatures. They estimate that the damage has already exceeded three billion euros.

Climate change in action, heatwaves and droughts! Welcome to the new millennia.

Life on earth is a fragile affair, orders of magnitude more so when your civilization depends on large interconnected networks of fuels and fertilizers and transport.

And of course those losses get added to the losses from Ukraine. We cant do anything about the drought losses but we could stop the war in Ukraine and start de-mining those fields that look like a poca dot cloth.

[Tuike]

Europe's drought could be the worst in 500 years, warns researcher -euronews

[Doly]

We cant do anything about the drought losses but we could stop the war in Ukraine and start de-mining those fields that look like a poca dot cloth.

And that should be just for starters. Production of staples should be a non-negotiable. I think it's nothing short of shocking that so many countries depend on imports for their cereals. It's almost as if the entire world has agreed to give the keys to the kingdom to Russia, that has always had vast amounts of land with naturally very fertile soil and the ability to grow vast amounts of cereals, and will likely retain that ability in just about any climate change scenario. What the hell is everybody thinking? It should be a matter of national security for any country to be able to produce by themselves enough staples of some sort of another to feed their own people: wheat, potatoes, rice, whatever will grow well in their country.

[AdamB]

What the hell is everybody thinking?

In the moment, it was that globalization was good.

[Tuike]

Spain facing food shortages as severe drought leads to crop failure -euronews
Southern Europe’s farmers are facing a crop crisis. Months of drought has interruped this year’s harvests and some Spanish ecologists are warning the country may soon be unable to sustain cereal crops such as wheat and barley.

Soon Sahara expands to Southern Europe, then Spanish ja Italians join other immigrants who came to north earlier. In tv news there was a talk Europeans are terrified of summer, if weather conditions are already dire in spring.

[careinke]

Spain facing food shortages as severe drought leads to crop failure -euronews
Southern Europe’s farmers are facing a crop crisis. Months of drought has interruped this year’s harvests and some Spanish ecologists are warning the country may soon be unable to sustain cereal crops such as wheat and barley.

Soon Sahara expands to Southern Europe, then Spanish ja Italians join other immigrants who came to north earlier. In tv news there was a talk Europeans are terrified of summer, if weather conditions are already dire in spring.

Let them eat MEAT! Grain crops are for birds, not humans!

Peace

[Newfie]

And another view of interest in the MENA region, focusing in water, in the longer term. About 10 min.

https://youtu.be/chKYMM7dFbU

[Tuike]

‘The impact is enormous’: Farmers in Sicily struggle to survive amid worst drought in 30 years -euronews
In the last six months of 2023, only 150 millimetres of rain fell on Sicily, the Italian island that is twice the size of some countries. A few months later, the region's government declared a state of emergency due to the drought. Experts warned it could be the third worst water crisis the island has ever seen.

Better start handing over cyanide capsules to Sicilians. The island is lost to climate change.

[mousepad]

Better start handing over cyanide capsules to Sicilians. The island is lost to climate change.

What are you talking about? Half of Sicily is imported negros and other afrikans. Europeans do everything to make them invaders feel right at home, including changing the climate for them.

[theluckycountry]

What are you talking about? Half of Sicily is imported negros and other afrikans. Europeans do everything to make them invaders feel right at home, including changing the climate for them.

tou·ché

[theluckycountry]

Spanish ecologists are warning the country may soon be unable to sustain cereal crops such as wheat and barley.

Let them eat MEAT! Grain crops are for birds, not humans!

The great and powerful tribes were always those that ate a MEAT based diet. It's only modern corporate marketing that has convinced many in the West that Meat is no good. And why wouldn't they, they can't really make a profit off it like they can stuffing puffed corn and sugar into a plastic bag and cardboard box. Most of the fast food chains likewise use meat scraps that I'd throw in the bin to make their burger paddies, pizza toppings and mexican style fill.

The last two nights for dinner I ate two eggs and a piece of fillet steak, Beef and Lamb, and occasionally beef mince in a spaghetti bol. Oh I still eat oats and salad sandwiches with cheese or corned beef, but none of that processed meat or ham or bacon, the chemicals they use to cure all that are questionable to my mind. My idea of take away is codfish and chips.

It's like everything in this overpopulated world of diminishing resources, there is only so much to go around and the have not's convince themselves that eating a grain based processed diet is good for you. That's Ego protection, but put a juicy steak in front of them...

[EnergyUnlimited]

The great and powerful tribes were always those that ate a MEAT based diet.

That until one woman came with idea of eating apples.

The last two nights for dinner I ate two eggs and a piece of fillet steak, Beef and Lamb, and occasionally beef mince in a spaghetti bol. Oh I still eat oats and salad sandwiches with cheese or corned beef, but none of that processed meat or ham or bacon, the chemicals they use to cure all that are questionable to my mind. My idea of take away is codfish and chips.

Most of regularly produced meat, eg product from industrial farms, is no longer edible - at least here locally and according to my private opinion.
I live at the seaside and I am buying fish from local fishermen - it is OK. Few species of fish you can safely buy from regular store and cod is one of them. Salmon from regular store is not edible.
Gees I can buy from regular stores - because mistreated they will not survive long - so whoever keeps them have to treat them well for most of life.
Turkey I buy from one of local farmers and sometimes I will buy a chicken from him as well. We do not buy chickens from regular stores - because they taste like they have died by natural cause.
Beef and pork we don't eat at all but we do eat deer and winch meat quite often even if several times more expensive. It is tasty at least. Lamb is difficult to get in Poland - we do not produce much.
On odd occasion (2-3 times a year) we can eat something more exotic - for example critters similar to locust which are abundant in my area during summer and my wife knows well what to do with them. They are tasty.

It's like everything in this overpopulated world of diminishing resources, there is only so much to go around and the have not's convince themselves that eating a grain based processed diet is good for you. That's Ego protection, but put a juicy steak in front of them...

About half of local girls in my area are vegetarian or vegan and they look rather anemic.
But it becomes to be a sort of religion between girls these days to be vegetarian or vegan - and as a result they often cannot get pregnant despite of efforts.
No worry - these days nice looking woman who cannot get pregnant seems more valuable for may men than the one which can...