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That's getting to the point that it could literally be economic to run a small generator on natural gas, or that plus solar plus batteries. It would take too ma
by msandford 3y ago
That's getting to the point that it could literally be economic to run a small generator on natural gas, or that plus solar plus batteries. It would take too many $500-$1000 electric bills to really pay down some personal infrastructure.
- callalex 3y agoSolar absolutely makes sense. Personal generators almost make sense, but the noise and maintenance are enough to make it not worth it to me.
- msandford 3y agoYeah I mean they're not great, but for that much money one could buy a pair of the Honda 2000w inverter generators and run them on natural gas and cycle between them quite handily. Have the "on" generator and the "just off of the latest rebuild cycle" generator. I've also thought that if one could figure out some of the power electronics a wrecked Prius engine just ticking over at idle would probably provide most of your off-peak power and charge batteries and then during peak times it could just ramp up a bit. I've never heard of a natural gas conversion though so it would be a long road I suspect.