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Originally Posted by Ukastronomer
Why ?
Is this not a pointless idea in the 21st Century and not very environmentally good
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You live in the city so probably dont realise there are places that are not connected to the electricity grid and therefore need to generate their own electricity...
So my research is far from pointless as the house at Tabulam is not on the electricity grid ($500,000 to connect to the grid maybe more) and so we use solar power to charge batteries...the batteries are 12 volts but you run the 12volts thru an inverter and get 240 volts to run everything...so I would suggest that my carbon footprint would be less than someone getting their electricity from a coal powered generating plant☺ and so my idea is really not environmentally unfriendly ..in fact the opposite..and there is a wind generator as well...but you need to store the electricity you generate from the Sun or the wind in batteries. ..I have one old set of 1200 amp hours and a new set (yet to be instaled) of 1140 amp hours...but I would like more storage capacity as the Sun does not shine all the time so the more storage the better.
Its not just a crazy idea in the context that battery storage reflects on simple things like how much tv you can watch or if you can run a fan on a hot day.
Alex