Posted on 05/20/2022 5:05:18 AM PDT by Tell It Right
We still have one of those old dial telephones in our garage.
It has worked during several power outages over the years—kinda hilarious when folks can’t use cell phones but our old clunker land line phone still works.
And copper.
Here is actual measured diesel amounts per acre from a well respected source in case anyone wants to know them. Modern farming is amazingly efficient.
https://store.extension.iastate.edu/product/4047
That posted this is also true.
Henry Ford believed ethanol was the future of fuel and said: “There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.”
There is a lot of good math here using the above data for diesel converting to the Btu equivalent in ethanol. Sweet potatoes make five times the alcohol per acre as corn at 1800 gallons per acre. Simply put if humans needed too with sweet potatoes it’s a one acre alcohol yield to plant and plow 100 other acres plus the original acre. The USA has 20 million acres fallow in reserve and at a 100 to 1 ratio could plant and plow 2,000,000,000 acres just using alcohol off the reserve farmland the total US farmland is 897,400,000 acres this also doesn’t take into account that alcohol can now be made directly from cellulose something impossible in Henry Ford day the yield of alcohol from cellulose is five to ten times that of using starch or kernals of a plant as the stalks and leaves have ten to 5 times the mass of the starch or seed produced by the plant.
Seems impossible but the math works out remember an acre is only 43560 sqft or an area 208 feet by 208 feet.
This company converts diesels to alcohol with 25% greater power, nearly zero NOx emissions and no particulate matter emissions. All the while being cheaper per hour operated vs diesel they have the tests to prove it by an independent scientific review.
Here is the white paper in full print.
https://www.clearflameengines.com/white-paper/tco-study/
It is not free because you have to factor in all of the money you are spending. Also, you need to add all of the maintenance costs. It will take a long time for you to break even if you even do.
I have 25-year warranty on the panels guaranteed to still be operating at 70% in the final year. My batteries have a 19-year/50% warranty. I account for that in my math. And now that I've owned the system for a year I have the data for all seasons. (I'm a software engineer with emphasis on the back-end data side, so I can't help but do that kind of thing in large personal projects.) So far I've had no maintenance, not even using a garden hose to rinse them off. The only moving parts are fans in 7 of the components (the inverter and 6 batteries). Usually that would mean less chance of maintenance. Plus, by having 6 batteries split the load demand (both charging and discharging) I'm not working any of them hard. This will be more so after the upgrade (doubling the inverter/charge controller while tripling the batteries).
The Leftist have replaced what WORKED with what sounded good.
That great, I think decentralized solar is the way to go, too bad I live in the dark and the cold end of things.
I’ve been looking at micro hydro power systems for my family in various places up north. Think decentralized hydro power.
Why when I was your age, we couldn’t afford suds on wash day; we had one sud and shared it, AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!!!
How did you and Tonto get along?
Saturday morning cartoons, etc.
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