312player wrote:
Drunk Squirrel wrote:
Cashman wrote:
Unless you are sucking a TON of power, I am not sure this is worth the investment. It certainly would be cool to have though.
Being on a coop for power we get hit pretty hard by electric bills and we pull a lot of kw here. It’ll happen eventually, as soon as I don’t have 10 billion other things to spend money on getting put in.
Wouldn't think you'd use much juice on a farm, figured ya have a LP tank or Nat Gas supply for heat and cooking.
No natural gas supply on farm and crazy wife went geothermal which is a heck of a cooling system but I’m not crazy about the heat side.
Beyond that,we pump a lot of water to water the cows, the electric motors on the grain bins can really pull the juice and just various other things... It’s not a 24/7 draw but there are days when the transformer is humming. Have a second home site on farm that is vacant and basically only electricity used over there is a deep well, a couple or three (depending on tine if hear) electric fencers and the furnace fan and due to the coop fees the cost per kw is a little bit more than you’d like.
When infrastructure isn’t shared by hundreds or thousands of people per square mile (population density is around 6 per square here) it costs.... but that’s okay... I get capital credits when they come in under budget..yeeeeh me.
At one point had a ton of aquariums... plugged in electric usage monitors on those and shut them down.
Yeah it seems the government or greenies should be all over your situation to subsidize you as an example. Just getting pumps and silo fans on solar would be a giant relief I am sure.
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