On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 00:13 +0100, M.Blackmore wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 11:38 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It was the lack of a minimal amount of electricity to > keep the electrical motor that ran the furnace. I am amazed that some > entrepreneurial spirit has not create a relatively inexpensive solar > energy > cell that could be directly connected to a furnace to run it in the > event of > a grid failure.
Now THAT is a clever idea. What sort of wattage would need to be stored for how long to run an electric pump and the various bits of electronics (our gas boiler is state-fo-the-art installed in May, and the controller circuit board is silly small...). What would the marketting depend upon, though? How many people aren't in denial about insecurity of supplies? Thus far UK supplies of natural gas seem OK for the next decade or so, whatever happens to liquid petrol and diesel. But the grid is gonna be in serious trouble due to underinvestment over the last couple of decades. A lot of plant is going to go past its sell-by date in the next few years. And I gather the US system is even more clapped-out... Malcolm _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
