Great, hopefull, article:

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8. I thought of wind power in winter (those storms!) but again, not cost-effective for a small user like me.

Selling to the grid just fell off a cliff, thanks to PG&’s regulatory capture and propaganda machine. (All of which we slobs paid for).

My alternative to wind power would have been parking an 18-wheeler in font of the house to stop the force of the wind. Thanks to one recent storm, I got new front windows mostly paid by insurance and a little from FEMA. That’s some hell of force at times.

P.S. An 18-wheeler probably couldn’t navigate the bit of road in front of the house, though it would be an interesting mathematical exercise to answer that less the actual truck. A moving van did fit the back side.

A bit off-topic. The home is twice the width of local roads. Manufactured homes are commonly delivered in two halves. This happened before I bought it. The perimeter and block and jack foundation have held nicely. It is, after all, on steel rails. It vibrated a bit when there was an earthquake in Henderson Nevada, some 100 miles away, that shook clean through the backbone of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Rode it out just fine. Nothing fell off the mantle.