To throw one in the air for discussion...
Let's suppose sometime around December this year there was a 72 hour solar eclipse which co-coincided with temporary national grid shut down caused by massive solar flares etc, so no natural heat/light and no leccy. It's gonna get might cold if this does happen..
8¬o Would it be possible to simply plug a portable generator into a socket on ring main (plugplug) (gennyring main) in order to supply enough power to fire up combi-boiler and pumps to provide heat and a bare minimum of essential lighting?And... is there such a thing as a small (portable) diesel generator that would be happy to run on paraffin or diesel/paraffin blend as we still have some paraffin left in the shop tank from the days of when it was a hardware store... May as well consider putting it to some use as an emergency back-up... ;¬)