Are you including the cost of the generator? And parts when it wears out?
And you do all your own stuff, but what of folks that don't The numbers I quoted are what we calculated for a hunting lodge in Mexico that ran a big gennie every day for 20 years. mel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Gennies and off grid in Texas Our kWh costs on the VeggieGen are running about $0.08 / kWh (fuel filtering, expected maintenance, depreciation of capital assets). This is in Niagara Mohawk Power territory where electric is $0.15 / kWh delivered. This does not include the $15k capital expense avoided by not having power lines brought in, or the $40k saved on property purchase price because there were no powerlines. = = = Original message = = = It's going to cost you WAY MORE to run the gennie per kilowatt than buying grid electricity. On the order of 20 to 40 cents per kilowatt. You WILL pay for the cost of solar panels in a few years of fuel, maintenance and "problems" with the mechanical generator. I have a 20 kw propane gennie here but we only use it as a backup. I have about 1300 watt of solar panels and while they ARE expensive, they are the easiest and cheapest in the LONG TERM ------------------ In my opinion a gennie should only be used as a back up to PV power setup to make up for a long string of cloudy days when the batteries did not get fully charged.... I have my own 700 watt PV setup down here in Houston, and have never regretted it..... -------------------- A combo of solar, wind, gennies and wood will be better than putting all your eggs in the gennie basket. -------------------- That is good advice...... and in addition to that, I also built a rainwater catchment system.... which I filter through a home made sand filter for household use.... and I have a cast iron wood comfort heater for heating my home, when necessary.... http://Geocities.com/solarliving Gig [Scanned by AwesomeNet Anti-Virus] _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.779 / Virus Database: 526 - Release Date: 10/19/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.779 / Virus Database: 526 - Release Date: 10/19/2004 _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
