daveman
Diamond Member
Yeah, the 6kW package I just found will pay for the LP gas generator and a whole damn lot of fuel. And it'll run the whole house, AND not be dependent on weather.Do you? It's a kilowatt. A thousand watts. A hair dryer draws 1.5kW. Go look, if you don't believe me.Isn't much isn't crap what's the diff? Do you even know what a KW is?
4kW isn't enough to power your home. A home with a 200 amp service can draw a maximum of 24kW. You're almost never going to draw that much current in the house, though, so you could easily get by with a 20kW generator.
Home Depot has a 20kW unit with an automatic transfer switch for $4,589.00. Runs on LP or NG. On NG, it's de-rated to 18kW.
How much does your wind turbine that's one-fifth the rated output cost? Don't forget the price of the battery bank and inverters, too.
Oh and to get 4 kw of wind generators it costs roughly 2500 bucks. Like I said before though the generators are not the expensive part. Getting the towers to set them on and wiring them in the circuit are the expensive part. You buy your generator that you still need to pay for fuel for. you then pay to have it installed. In 10 years we will find out who is better off. I'm ashamed to call myself a fiscal conservative with idiots like you unwilling to look at the math behind this tech.
If expensive and inefficient is your idea of fiscal conservatism, knock yourself out, Skippy.