Subj : Re: Keep cool USA and European folks
To   : hollowone
From : Arelor
Date : Thu Jul 20 2023 11:04 am

  Re: Re: Keep cool USA and European folks
  By: hollowone to Arelor on Thu Jul 20 2023 06:11 am

 >  Ar> We even have a diesel generator with automatable startup linked to our
 >  Ar> setup. If the solar batteries ran dry the generator can be set to
 >  Ar> recharge them or to just power the house.
 > 
 > What's the economic gain you have from this setup?
 > 
 > -h1
 > 
 > ... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.
 > 
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The real gain is I don't get to worry if a thunderstorm crashes the village's
power supply, or if floods crash the power supply, of ir the power supplier
messes up and crashes the power supply. Which happens often enough.

I estimate my setup will recoup the investment in 10 years, asuming the price
of electric power does not go up - which I am sure it will.

As I mentioned earlier, it is not a great investment plan because you may as
well invest in Spanish firms (if you have what it takes) and get your
investment back in less time.

Mind you, we didn't get the generator for this setup. We got it much earlier
because power supply here sucks and we needed a fallback. When we added solar
it was easy for me to include a generator we already had in the setup. We no
longer use it much since solar copes with most of our load. I run it 30 minutes
per month in order to prevent it from getting stuck due to inactivity.

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