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So for me, while I do talk about the usefulness of a lot of items in future scenarios, I don’t want people to miss the fact that they are useful right now. That is, right now, my solar lantern goes with me to the barn to milk the goats, and sometimes back to the living room to read by. Right now my sun oven is cooking lima beans. Last winter, and the winter before, warm clothes and warm blankets substituted for expensive heating energy. Right now we eat largely what we grow or get from our neighbors - even if we’d kind of like something else sometimes. Now I do some of these things from principle, or because I want to know how to do them in a hypothetical future, but I also do them because I can’t afford, and don’t have time, to maintain the infrastructure for the whole of two lives - I can’t afford to have a regular, fossil fuel dependent life and an expensive, backup fossil-free one. I can only have one life at a time - and I can afford my solar lantern because I use it to cut my electric bill now.