On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:52:28 -0400 Shawn Reeves
<[email protected]> writes:
> I think the 4-6kW bandied about is the recommended PV installed
> capacity for your average modern household. That would make sense,
> 0.4-0.6kW being enough to power a smart family.
>From my small farm experience with the back-up power generation needed,
this would make sense even to my numbers-challenged mind. We needed a 5kW
back-up generator to have the capacity to cover surges when appliances
click on at once, and the initial power draw of a well pump or milking
machine vacuum pump, but our average smart farm power use is a small
fraction of that.
Karl North
Northland Sheep Dairy, Freetown, New York USA
www.geocities.com/northsheep/
"Pueblo que canta no morira" - Cuban saying
"They only call it class warfare when we fight back" - Anon.
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