Re: [biofuel] Power generation - spike times

2003-11-20 Thread alex
Martin, unfortunately our 3-dimensional world is fueled (and greased) by the money. I really don't see any technical problems with this set - up. Ideally it should be 2 generators running at 50 % rated load - looks very redundant. So the actual obstacle is the regulation. I probably will end up g

Re: [biofuel] Power generation - spike times

2003-11-20 Thread Martin Klingensmith
At least do it for a better reason than the money. Of course, you don't take in to account generator failure and the cost of connecting (IF 'they' will even let you connect) -- -- Martin Klingensmith http://infoarchive.net/ alex wrote: >Paul, >I'm more concerned at this point at making some

Re: [biofuel] Power generation - spike times

2003-11-19 Thread alex
Paul, I'm more concerned at this point at making some reasonable return on investment. And it doesn't look that bad : 24litres X 24 hours = 576 litres/day. 576 X 365 = 210 000 litres/1 year - output from 200 acres. 100 kwt X 24 X 365 X .08(c/KWTH) = $ 70,080.00. Not a bad income for a farmer. Plu

[biofuel] Power generation - spike times

2003-11-19 Thread Paul B.Schmidt
Good point. Remember as well that most electric power needs falls in two spikes, AM and PM rush. If you can run a generator for a few hours in the AM and PM then that's really all you'd need to decrease consumption during spike times, let alone run your farms on it. I know little of the spe