Martin asked: > Darryl, where do you live? I live in Northern New York. Our electricity > was out for about 2 weeks I think.
I am based in Ottawa, Ontario. We are at the edge of the main urban area (inside Greenbelt), and our power was out about 12 hours. After that, we provided support to friends who were without power up to 18 days, about 30 minutes drive from downtown. Since then I have set us up so that old batteries (too weak to power the electric car, but with some reasonable remaining capacity) can power an inverter to run the furnace, I estimate for up to 12 hours of operation before recharging is required (which could be enough for up to 4 days given typical furnace duty cycle, longer if it is warm or the sun is shining). Now that we are ready, I expect we should never require its use (reverse Murphy logic). If I happen to acquire a couple of good sized PV panels, I might put the whole package together as a UPS for the computer - the number of power glitches this winter (under a second) have been rather annoying. I am hoping the province's current misguided campaign to induce folks to install PV panels may result in some bargains in a couple of years. Darryl McMahon ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Make Money Online Auctions! Make $500.00 or We Will Give You Thirty Dollars for Trying! http://us.click.yahoo.com/yMx78A/fNtFAA/46VHAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
