power

I want people to think about the cost of power to your house. Now ask yourself this question, can I produce it cheaper myself? My last bill was for $195 for three months thats about $2 per day. Now I cannot produce the power for that, but I do produce some of it being hot water. If the price went to $10 per day I would concider cogeneration on a small scale, Cogeneration is simply taking the heat and electricity produced and using it all. The system is simply a generator and water cooling the engine. Now if I were traveling in a car and caravan or a motor home I would look at heating the water from the exhaust pipe for showers and washing. This is free energy that is produced and is not being used. cheers Stewart

solar who pays

Solar energy is produced by the suns action on a panel producing electricity or heat for hot water or air.

Notice that on you energy bill that hot water and heating is the largest component so this is where you get the best value for dollar spent on solar.

Light is about 10% of the bill,refrigeration is another 10% so if your bill is $100 then the light and refrigeration component is about $10 each.Heating is the remainder 80% or $80.

One solar panel for electricity with one battery operating only lights will save you $10 off the bill.

One panel and battery and lights on a stand alone system would cost you about $1000.

This being the case it will take you 100 bills to pay you back or four bills per year times the years 25 . 1000 divided x 10 = 100 divided x 4 = 25 years.

So this is not a good return for your money.

On the other hand solar hot water is different that is $ 80 x 4 bills = $320 / years x 10 years = $ 3200 which is the cost of a solar hot water system.

This is not taking into account the government rebates which is the similar for both electric generation and hot water.

If I were spending your money I would go for hot water followed by insulation of your home first in that order...cheers Stewart

power

I think this is a little doozy.
standby dos'nt use much power

Even when turned off, appliances can still draw power. New Zealanders use more electricity keeping products on standby than we do actually using them.

wind power and hydro power

Monday, September 28, 2009

Don't be fooled into saving 90% of your electricity from the wind or water power. It can be done and is only for knowledgeable amateur's. There is many pitfalls along the way there is some good stuff to be learnt from the net and would advise the following site. www.mdpub.com/Wind_Turbine/index.html This is one of the better sites for good information, what would happen if the turbine was in suburbia and the fan blade hurt someone. Could it happen, yes, we built a car with a fan driving it and I rolled it and the blades smashed and the blades went over 200 yards from the crash site. I'm not saying don't do it cause it is fun and yes you can save money try charging batteries at first then go onto bigger stuff.
Little generator little power little money little trouble, big generator big every thing else.
Our water generator (hydro electric) was 7.5 kilowatts three phase using a cross flow turbine, 12 inches wide 14inch diameter running at 200rpm, driving a generator at 1500 rpm, and a head of water of 4 metres and a water flow of 3,000 gallons / minute. this might sound complicated and to the untrained it is.
If you have any questions I will try to answer them here. cheers Stewart

solar energy who pays

I am one for sustainability and green things.
Be warned you set up a solar array guaranteed for twenty years you get a pittance in return for your out lay.
In twenty years the thing breaks down no warranty, say it draws from the grid and your bills go up.
Now who pays not the electric company you do...don't believe me then. What about the new car you bought with 3 years ago out of warranty and it broke down and you needed a new computer chip , a thousand you say as you part with your money...

Say an array cost you 10,000 and you save say 300 dollars a year on your bills. what is the interest on the 10,000 over a year at 5% is about $500 at the end of twenty years you probably have trebled your money and the warranty hasn't run out...this is just food for thought.
Solar hot water and space heating are different.I have solar hot water on my roof and am looking at heating the house as well. Cheers Stewart
Check out the warranty post on imagingeering-engineering Gundagai

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Check out imagineering engineering gundagai its a more intense site

green sustainable cheep electricity and lights

This is my old mate Donny the owner of the famous race horse Sanjapaddy,the sun was shining and we went to the rubbish tip and Donny said you could furnish a house from here . So I thought it could be done so went about it because Donny got a bit giddy so I got a chair for him to sit on, He said carpet would be good and the carpet was found and another chair for me. He said the cricket was on and he said a bit of telly might go good and a table and TV were found as well, A wind break was fashioned and a smoke detector was placed in the tree above him pots and pans and there it is home sweet home. Then this lady came to the tip and was asking Donny what he was doing and he said waiting for the cricket to come on! Pity we didn't have electricity but if I looked hard enough I would have found that too....cheers Stewart