> gas powered ice cutter to make ice for non-electric icebox
> The diesel engine burns fuel to drive the compressor that fills the reservoir with pressure. From the tank a series of high-pressure pipes snake off toward every corner of the factory.
> power their combine or threshers with diesel engines, if the engine only drives the threshers but is not self-propelled, so the whole smoking, noisy contraption is pulled by horses
> In their goal to remain off the grid, yet modernize, some Amish have installed inverters on their diesel generators linked to batteries to provide them with off-grid 110 volts. They power specialty appliances at first, like an electric coffee pot.
Just like Shabbat elevators, to me these all sound like weird, hacky, kinda stupid, environmentally unfriendly solutions to problems caused by ridiculous made up rules, that -- ultimately -- don't even matter, because while 50 or so years behind everyone else, the Amish are still going to adopt grid electricity, smartphones and Node.js sooner or later.
You can also find the same amount of hacker DIY ingenuity in places where scarcity is not self-imposed, e.g. rural Russia, and those people get much more respect from me than weird religious communities almost piggybacking on the rest of the society.
> The diesel engine burns fuel to drive the compressor that fills the reservoir with pressure. From the tank a series of high-pressure pipes snake off toward every corner of the factory.
> power their combine or threshers with diesel engines, if the engine only drives the threshers but is not self-propelled, so the whole smoking, noisy contraption is pulled by horses
> In their goal to remain off the grid, yet modernize, some Amish have installed inverters on their diesel generators linked to batteries to provide them with off-grid 110 volts. They power specialty appliances at first, like an electric coffee pot.
Just like Shabbat elevators, to me these all sound like weird, hacky, kinda stupid, environmentally unfriendly solutions to problems caused by ridiculous made up rules, that -- ultimately -- don't even matter, because while 50 or so years behind everyone else, the Amish are still going to adopt grid electricity, smartphones and Node.js sooner or later.
You can also find the same amount of hacker DIY ingenuity in places where scarcity is not self-imposed, e.g. rural Russia, and those people get much more respect from me than weird religious communities almost piggybacking on the rest of the society.