What is the current state of backyard hydro electric generators?
Are they well packaged
and as easy to use as a two-stroke diesel generator?
We have the notion of "mini" hydro installations, fractional-megawatt
turbines that are managed by and hooked up to the water supply for a
village or group of villages. But I'm afraid I don't know anything
about smaller, personal, generators.
For comparison, it's possible for me to order household electricity
traceable to specific sources:
the normal mix (25% nuke, 71% hydro) runs about 0,20 CHF / kWh
going 100% hydro would be relatively cheap: 0,203 CHF / kWh
mini hydro is somewhat more expensive: 0,23 CHF / kWh
solar, on the other hand, is definitely spendy: 0,95 CHF / kWh
-Dave
