daugen
Epic Contributor
Let some people put solar on their place for their own supply.
if nuclear winter comes, solar is SOL. If Yellowstone blows up, could be close to nuclear winter.
But if they ever makes batteries that are smaller and more affordable, I'd be second in line to generate my own solar power.
I like the self reliance aspect of that. As it is now, you have to make a very large investment, witness David/Sodamo, RNG and others who
generate their own power. Unless you have no choice , like living off the grid, the payback for full house solar is likely to take a very long time.
My electric bill is 110 bucks a month. Last year the farm was 3-400 a month, so take the biggest number and round up to 5 grand of power a year.
Now divide 5k into the total replacement value of David's solar and gen setup.
If you can't break even in 10 years, tax help here would help, not many folks are going to spend the money for solar.
Unless it's a family generational farm. Need to take a very long approach to spending that much money.
I'm talking about a power system that will generate 200 amps continuous.
That's only half of a typical modern 400 amp service, but maybe we can learn to live on less...
If one is a "prepper" does one plan for a future without electricity?
If power goes off entirely, so does your water supply for most people and sanitation. Much less heat and a/c.
We are back to the 1850's. Not for me, I want my hvac to work...which is why I have a backup gen.
Belt and suspenders. Have to have backup. Unless national grid can adequately handle it, including major earthquakes,
therefore bringing in juice from afar, which they clearly had a problem with in Texas, pretty risky to just hope no combination of factors
will bring the whole operation down.
We have become too fragile to safely operate without electricity. We have made our lives dependent upon it.
So we had better make it reliable...
Am hoping this is a wake up call to lots of folks in power gen.
if nuclear winter comes, solar is SOL. If Yellowstone blows up, could be close to nuclear winter.
But if they ever makes batteries that are smaller and more affordable, I'd be second in line to generate my own solar power.
I like the self reliance aspect of that. As it is now, you have to make a very large investment, witness David/Sodamo, RNG and others who
generate their own power. Unless you have no choice , like living off the grid, the payback for full house solar is likely to take a very long time.
My electric bill is 110 bucks a month. Last year the farm was 3-400 a month, so take the biggest number and round up to 5 grand of power a year.
Now divide 5k into the total replacement value of David's solar and gen setup.
If you can't break even in 10 years, tax help here would help, not many folks are going to spend the money for solar.
Unless it's a family generational farm. Need to take a very long approach to spending that much money.
I'm talking about a power system that will generate 200 amps continuous.
That's only half of a typical modern 400 amp service, but maybe we can learn to live on less...
If one is a "prepper" does one plan for a future without electricity?
If power goes off entirely, so does your water supply for most people and sanitation. Much less heat and a/c.
We are back to the 1850's. Not for me, I want my hvac to work...which is why I have a backup gen.
Belt and suspenders. Have to have backup. Unless national grid can adequately handle it, including major earthquakes,
therefore bringing in juice from afar, which they clearly had a problem with in Texas, pretty risky to just hope no combination of factors
will bring the whole operation down.
We have become too fragile to safely operate without electricity. We have made our lives dependent upon it.
So we had better make it reliable...
Am hoping this is a wake up call to lots of folks in power gen.
Well that quickly ended that project for the day.