My friend who lives in the St. Ives Country Club has a 50 kW diesel. His house is about 8,000 ft^2.
100 kW is just ridiculous. You have to supply fuel still. Buy the 10 kW unit and one my my fine load management centers I am presently designing. :-) T On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Terry Blanton wrote: > > http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/411/ > > "I think Bloom Energy is looking to install 100 Kilowatt power units > in everyone's houses. These will be flex-fuel, but likely running > mostly on natural gas. They will also probably produce heat, and > cooling, as well as power, making the devices roughly 85% efficient > (thus generating two times less greenhouse gas emissions than a power > plant per unit of power used.) " > > > > > Not very geeky considering that the mean electric power consumption > for an average house is 1 kW. A 10 kW unit should be adequate. > > Adequate, yes, but if you have huge house and you want keep everything > running because you use the generator full time, you need something bigger. > The Generac corporation has a web page used to size their stand-by > generators: > > http://www.generac.com/Residential/Sizer/ > > I just told the configuration page that I live in Atlanta and have a 5000 > sq. ft. house and I want to turn on absolutely everything they have listed > at the same time. The page figured I would need 46 kW to 59 kW of capacity. > > The Generac Guardian Series 60 kW unit costs $16,122 retail from Amazon.com. > > Actually my house is 2000 sq. ft. and I don't even have most of the high > demand stuff they list on the config page such as an electric range and > electric water heater or a hot tub. Configuring it for my real house, which > has a heat pump, it tells me I need 12 kW to 16 kW and recommends the 17 kW > unit, which Amazon sells for $3,600, including the panel and equipment for > the automatic transfer switch. It is powered by natural gas. Very reasonable > cost. If I had someone in the house with a medical condition that requires > electricity (as a neighbor of mine used to have) I would get one of these. > > I suppose it would cost a few grand to have this installed . . . > > - Jed >
