Joe, and also RAF and Edgar...
So are your efforts to be able to produce your own electricity based on
a desire for:
1. complete self-sufficiency (as in survivalist)
2. constancy (as in a temporary back-up)
3. cost-savings
4. a more ecological means (more 'green')
5. other (please explain in a FEW words or sentences)
And if your efforts are based on some combination of these and you would
be so kind, please rank them in order or better yet give them a
percentage of your motive.
Thanks...Bill!
--- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@...> wrote:
>
> Bill!,
>
> We, err-r, "hams" have to be (like to be) ready, in case of an
emergency, and like to have home-power on-hand in case the big-momma
should go down. We think our comm's might save the day, a little at a
time. And we see it happen, when things happen. We train for it, so
it's not mayhem on D-Day (or de Day, as they say in Jamaica).
>
> I don't do that, yet, the training(s), but I am new to the game. I
want spare power to spare, in order to work DX when the bands become
REALLY quiet when all the world's electrical noise-sources die. It's
not just for me, it's for THEM ("others", we called them, before
Awakening)! We hams help each other. Well, I *think* we're others.
>
> BTW, in Israel, there are some Jewish hams, and they are still as
Kosher as they wannabe.
>
> Bill!, when the mains are at ground-potential, cost is not an option.
We have options in place. They cost, but what the hay.
>
> Speaking as a ham.
>
> But I still can't ape Porky Pig too convincingly. You'd never know
that, here!
>
> --Joe
>
> PS I think Edgar could be his own wind-generator, reliably! Bill!,
you are a *SOURCE* of light, and not a good photoelectric converter.
That would be US. ;-)
>
> > "Bill!" BillSmart@ wrote:
> >
> > RAF and Joe,
> >
> > I've experimented around with electric power generation (solar and
wind) and still haven't found any that are more cost-effective, much
less more efficient and 'green', then the community grid.
> >
> > ...Bill!
>
