I think 22000 kWh, 2000 short. about your encounters with the police, we had some similar two years ago. Not so funny. Coming back from our roadtrip to CZ and they found some firecrackers. Big mouth in court got me the max, 240 hours working. If she could give me the electric chair, she would . Still having fun every day, except time for woodgas is nihill. my weak excuse for this winter. We will see if I catch up.
4000 kWh in the plus, winter three months. 2000 a month means 2000 short. The Deutz will be to small. Gonna need a V8đ
There are 3-4 different storage types of systems based on response time, and duration. hydrogen is really kind of the âlong durationâ so excess energy in the summer can be storage until winter. It can work, it just isnât cost effective. Germany bet on it and has been against battery storage.
Then you have time shifting from say day to night, some of which can be done with batteries, but it is mostly done by shutting down output from power plants.
Then you have even shorter response times and durations which is really where batteries shine.
Managing the grid isnât layers of complication beyond a home. The basics are still the same. You can run a generator 24/7 and supply power, but it is still running 24/7. Oh wait, you can add batteries then the generator charges the batteries and reduces the generator run-time so you can run off batteries at night. It amounts to a huge fuel savings so off-gridders jump at it. Oh wait, if you add solar, you donât have to run the generator as much during the day, or if you arenât going to be home that day, you can charge the batteries up and leave for the day.
The trick is to get that system to scale to utilities. They donât know, you arenât going to be home that day, or if you are staying up late in the machine shop. They literally just guess what demand will be. If they guess too high, they wasted a bunch of fuel for unsold electric, if they guess too low, the spot prices skyrocket.
there are a few other things as well. like a gas generator is about as expensive as you can get for generating electric. So any change is typically a reduction in cost. Utilities have hammered down the cost structures. The differential is a lot lower and it has less value to change.
Iâve been putting in a lot of money in my 2005 Chevy almost every time I used it. The floor was rotted out and the floor mat was the only thing keeping my feet from going through the floor. Matter of fact, snow and rocks would get kicked up into the cab as i was driving. I had my reasons for making this decision. I bought a 3 year old truck from AZ because it had no rust. I bought it in an auction and saved at least $10k.
Here is a confirmation that my bold statement Iâd made above; that the newly building up massive Data-Centers in the Pacific Northwest USA are becoming the electrical Grid system maxing out problem:
So sorry fellows one of the only TODAY solutions will be to build and operate more Nuclear power plants. Build up even more ugly massive high frequency, high KV interconnect transmission corridors.
Taking the Nuclear power option off of the table . . . then pile on the screaming here to go no-more-cabons polluting natural gas right down to the home users . . . and the rail track people blocking of fossil fuel coal trains . . . like the No-More-Oil idiots blocking in the EU.
Well the common folk now after decades of factory/mills job losses are shouldering even more make-you-poor costs here.
As I said the regional Elites here always get their power, their choice of expensive cars; their choice of the best locations to live on; food costs raising does not effect them as percentage of their annual spending budgets . . .
Backlash is occurring now at a greater rate. Tesla cars being acid tagged and paints keyed. Charging stations cords vandalized. Etc. 21st Century spitting in the cup of water demanded served up to the high-horse riding masters.
Just like I have for decades deferred from living in or 50 mile near any of our minimum of FIVE in-state well known Hydrogen bomb targets . . . refused now to live even in the next 30 miles outside destruction radius refugee streaming out areas.
I also chose to live as much as possible not downwind to these well now documented out hazards areas.
The newest visual blast radius data in unclassified visuals in 2006âs, âTrinity & Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movieâ. An anti-nuke-war movie narrated by William Shatner.
Had to catch up through a hundred or so post here, been mighty busy with work and just took a trip to Texas for the âcontent creator range dayâ with all the big name famous YouTubers instagram people and whatnot and I missed a gun conversation spent a whole day shooting wildly rare and collectible machine guns from ma deuce, Bren, mp5, mg42, Ak, m16, ak9, Draco, BAR, and got to shoot the one of a kind AK50
Funny enough I sat at a christmas party this weekend with someone whose job it was to find the power for these data centres. As I understand it part one of the plan is to situate themselves as close to the power plant as possible wherever possible. The eventual plan would be to own and operate their own plant if necessary⊠Kind of makes you wonder about all us little people at the ends of long delivery routesâŠ
Provided, we need the solution today. IMHO the US doesnât need one today. Other parts of the world have different problems like India, China and Europe all import most of their oil and natural gas. They need it more.
We canât afford to wait indefinitely, as we will eventually run out of cheaply extractable oil and gas. It takes time to develop and refine technologies, and work out cost effective solutions. We gave ourselves decades of lead time. some things are cost effective now or some are not.
The irony to people ruining tesla, is that they actually help balance the oil market to keep oil prices lower for the rest of us.
Everything in the material universe is composed of energy. It is as endlessly available as the universe is endless. The law of conservation of energy states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed - only converted from one form of energy to another.
We donât generate energy. We accumulate it and look for ways to channel it into uses we devise for it. Nuclear energy. Just a way to heat water to run 19th century tech. Why? because it can be doled out, bought and sold. Because those who produce it can control those of us that need it. Itâs really as simple as that. Do you imagine that those UFOâs from who knows where power their transports with split atoms? I think a gift is in our future. Iâm not crazy. I was tested as a child.
This is why I find huge irony in people complain about corporations and the wealthy controlling everything, supporting nuclear and are against solar and EVs. Oil is tightly controlled. You donât want to be controlled? Here is an EV and solar panels, and battery storage. Please go off-grid. The government will even give you money to do it. It is about as -easy- as it gets. If you want to hack out any of whatever you think is tracking you. I donât think anyone cares.
Right now there are some legit issues with the technology such as refueling speed or range depending on how you want to look at it. But it is an option.
True, but not the whole story. I can use solar cells to charge a battery. Solar energy (light) to chemical energy in the battery. Some will be lost, mostly to heat in the resistance in the electrical circuit. I can use that âwasteâ energy to heat my house, unless the temperature of that heat energy is lower than my house. Itâs still energy, and itâs still there, but some point, it canât be put to use. The cosmic background radiation is still there (wherever it came from), but you canât do anything with it. Maybe run a heat pump, but at 4K, -269C, -452F, I can tell you the coefficient of performance without any calculations
Crazy is as crazy does JO. They do the same thing on the great lakes here. People assume from watching movies that the surf in Southern California is nice and warm. It actually averages about 60F. About the same as summer temps in Lake Superior. I could swim in it as a kid. Not at gunpoint now.
HI.
Iâll put this one up here as it does apply now at winterâs darkest, longest no-sun days and many now having lots and lots of snows limiting thier PV solar:
Now some already know the outcome results like Bill Schiller; Duel Fuel BruceJ. and Offgridders Curtis Stone.
To be fully comprehensive a fellow needs to factor in oil changes; filters air-oil-fuel costs; and will need to replace starting batteries and spark plugs costs too. And to have included now gasoline fuel injected inverter generators systems. And for sure LPG/propane generator systems too.
Bottom line is, engine generating; your electrical power will be the highest cost route.
But manâo-man . . . the turn-key conveniences . . . all folks operable like responsible kids and most women then too.
Canât say that for woodgas, or chargas systems. Needs special experiences, training and dedication willingness to make them continuously produce and work.
Regards
Steve Unruh
Looks like the same light set I brought home from Iraq. One has to factor in that it doesnât want to start when itâs cold, but the Honda or Predator will easily start. @Matt can sell a turn key charcoal generator cheaper than a Kubota light set, right? If so, then I would say the charcoal would be a better winter match than a diesel. Donât need a choke with CO!
about your encounters with the police, we had some similar two years ago. Not so funny. Coming back from our roadtrip to CZ and they found some firecrackers. Big mouth in court got me the max, 240 hours working. If she could give me the electric chair, she would 
spent a whole day shooting wildly rare and collectible machine guns from ma deuce, Bren, mp5, mg42, Ak, m16, ak9, Draco, BAR, and got to shoot the one of a kind AK50
