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Post by sd51555 on May 4, 2021 20:41:34 GMT -6
Am I behind on building paradise at my age? Nope. You post like you have no intention of adding electricity, running water, or septic at any point though. If you're just doing that for "clicks" then I get it. Paradise to me includes a way to plug in a beer fridge so I can have beers with a skim of ice in them on a 90 degree day, a place to shit in the middle of the night that doesn't require a flashlight and a 12 gauge loaded with slugs to visit, and some warm running water to wash my hands with after I shit...but hey, that's just me. the reason I bring up the power conversation is to get a rise out of Foggy. If we go more than a week or two without stirring it up over grid vs solar, I feel like we're missing out.
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Post by Foggy on May 4, 2021 21:30:42 GMT -6
Nope. You post like you have no intention of adding electricity, running water, or septic at any point though. If you're just doing that for "clicks" then I get it. Paradise to me includes a way to plug in a beer fridge so I can have beers with a skim of ice in them on a 90 degree day, a place to shit in the middle of the night that doesn't require a flashlight and a 12 gauge loaded with slugs to visit, and some warm running water to wash my hands with after I shit...but hey, that's just me. the reason I bring up the power conversation is to get a rise out of Foggy. If we go more than a week or two without stirring it up over grid vs solar, I feel like we're missing out. Touch'e
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Post by Foggy on May 8, 2021 21:04:17 GMT -6
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Post by sd51555 on May 8, 2021 23:34:38 GMT -6
Great article. Here's a quote from it that I liked: " Without government intervention, solar energy will win out only if it’s the cheapest."Running grid into the boonies where you've only got 2 paying customers per mile of line ain't gonna be efficient. It gets even worse if one of those two ain't paying their bill. While that makes for a quiet neighborhood you'd enjoy hunting, it also makes for really expensive power. In three years, I haven't used $10 worth (74Kw/hr @ 13 cents) of grid equivalent power at my camp. To get access to that $10 worth of power would have cost me $2400 by now, and that beast needs feeding even when I ain't there.
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Post by sd51555 on Jun 27, 2021 10:27:25 GMT -6
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Post by Sandbur on Jun 27, 2021 13:33:44 GMT -6
How will people drive electric cars to work?
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Post by Tooln on Jun 27, 2021 18:48:37 GMT -6
The reason the grid is going out in Cali is from all the electric cars being charged at night. Creating the grid to be overloaded.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Jun 27, 2021 18:59:18 GMT -6
New friend of mine put in new solar panels in AZ thinking that if power outages happen in our hood he will have power and I won't......I will let him find out on his own he will be as dark as I will. LOL!
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Post by kooch on Jun 27, 2021 19:13:11 GMT -6
New friend of mine put in new solar panels in AZ thinking that if power outages happen in our hood he will have power and I won't......I will let him find out on his own he will be as dark as I will. LOL! Isn't there a switch he can flip to disconnect from the welding power source? Does he have batteries?
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Post by sd51555 on Jun 27, 2021 19:21:27 GMT -6
New friend of mine put in new solar panels in AZ thinking that if power outages happen in our hood he will have power and I won't......I will let him find out on his own he will be as dark as I will. LOL! Wait till he finds out he doesn’t earn the same rate he pays per Kw/hr either.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Jun 27, 2021 19:51:31 GMT -6
New friend of mine put in new solar panels in AZ thinking that if power outages happen in our hood he will have power and I won't......I will let him find out on his own he will be as dark as I will. LOL! Wait till he finds out he doesn’t earn the same rate he pays per Kw/hr either. Yep, about 1/10th the rate.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Jun 27, 2021 19:52:17 GMT -6
New friend of mine put in new solar panels in AZ thinking that if power outages happen in our hood he will have power and I won't......I will let him find out on his own he will be as dark as I will. LOL! Isn't there a switch he can flip to disconnect from the welding power source? Does he have batteries? No batteries that I know of. It just goes directly to the grid.
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