HK wrote in news:Y6idnbDe_oa62-
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Damned cool. I wonder if there is a way to make a small business out of
this, keeping it out of the hands of the damned corporate sharks.



We have a better idea, but haven't acted on it as we all work, sort of.

In SC there is a new rule that SC Electric and Gouge MUST buy any surplus
power from a renewable resource you produce, whether corporate likes it
or not. 1800 gallons is only a fraction of what I can collect. I get
calls from other restaurants wanting me to pick up their waste weekly.
Unfortunately, we're out of room in the corner of the warehouse so I must
decline.

The idea was to use up the surplus powering a diesel genset hooked to the
two-way kilowatthour meter, right at the warehouse, where we have quite a
bit of unused realestate between the building and the swamp out back.

I was already given a 250KVA monster from a hospital in Alabama that had
upgraded to a larger one, but by the time we got it here and installed
it, we'd be in debt way too much to make it profitable, forced to sell
our power to pay down that debt and its interest. Nope....too grandiose.
The monster would make an oil slave out of me. That's where the project
stalled this fall.....

I'd still like a nice stationary genset, maybe in the 100-150KVA range,
3-phase, any voltage to feed them. They're paying about 5.8c/Kwh, that's
$209 a 24 hour day, minus what George's warehouse uses. That comes to
$6264/month, minus oil changes and maintenance on the monster.
$6000/month is a nice little income even split between the 3 of us.
There's even a tax incentive available to get the government bureaucrats
somewhat off our backs. Fuel is cheap...(c;...and renewable! We're
burning waste oil! Once the genset is hot, it'll run easy on pure oil.
We can switch it manually from diesel 2 to vegoil, which is all the
Frybrid does automatically for mylady in the cars. A tiny part of the AC
power could heat the oil, if necessary, on really cold days.

I used to love playing with big gensets when I was working in Iran. We
had 6 big Deutz air-cooled diesel beasts powering the mission at the
airbase because local power was, in the late 70's, not really reliable.
They were 250 KVA monsters and there was 680,000 gallons of #2 buried
under the parking lot to run them independently, in emergencies. Power R
Us!...(c; When they found out how much I loved to be around them, the
company engine boys were more than happy to let me operate them, two at a
time, synchronized, because they didn't want anything to do with the
electric power side of them.

The Chinese have all kinds of big powerplants with famous prime movers
like Deutz, Perkins, Lister, etc., like this:
http://www.made-in-china.com/showroo...-list/catalog-
1.html

Here's the Chinese diesel 6.5KW genset that's oil powered at my house.
It was $1599 at Pep Boys Auto Parts. All I wanted was two wiper blades
for my stepvan...(sigh) Runs fine on the oil/mineral spirits mix...
http://tinyurl.com/2xf5w7



Larry
--
I found what I wanted for Christmas at Best Buy,
but she wouldn't stop screaming obscenities while
we were scanning her and forcing her into the bag!

How was I s'posed ta know associate girls weren't
on sale?