Posted on 11/21/2008 7:10:57 AM PST by knowseverything
The Law of Unintended Consequences
My neighbors have those water heaters and they love them. Problem we have here is we are all electric. That could be good or bad I guess. If you can’t get propane....no hot water. That’s why I was thinking about a diesel generator.
You could get an instant-on electric water heater, then just turn on your 10kW diesel generator when you need to heat some water and turn it off when you are done. Your other power needs might be satisfied with a smallish solar system. Obviously heat would have to use something else, I use wood with propane as backup.
Somewhere on my computer is stored a study of IIRC about 30,000 windmills, both over water and on land.
Again, IIRC correctly, the over-water mills produced about 30%+ their maximum stated capacity, the on-land about 29%, slightly higher than the numbers you used.
Freepmail me if you want the study and I’ll try to dig it up.
We use a woodstove about 90% of the time in winter. I only use the house heater to take the chill off if the fire goes out. Since we work out of our home, the fire is going about 24 hours a day.....when winter sets in. I’ve thought about the electric instant hot water but haven’t looked into them yet.
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