Posted on 02/08/2011 7:55:56 AM PST by MsLady
Yep, and yesterday, over 20.
I should add; the law was published as PL 95-87, signed by Jimmah Cahtah.
Thus the need not to talk about it.
I’ve moved tons of dirt and rock around my property. If some of that were coal, nobody would be the wiser. I wish I had an exposed seam on my property, I would dig some up just for the principal of the matter.
In fact just discussing it has aggravated me to the point I’ll have to pour some used motor oil in the in the creek just to make me feel better. /jk
Don’t throw away that used oil.
It’s worth $2.00/gallon during asphalt paving season.
/jk
I was just joking. Everybody knows you don’t pour oil in the creek, you spray it on the road and ditch to settle dust and kill weeds.
When I was a kid and broke, I rented houses with friends.
I had a roommate once who changed the oil in his car and then poured the dirty oil into my vegtable garden compost. He was around 20. He had no idea that was a bad idea until he heard me screaming like a banshie.
“Hey great!!! For only a forty thousand dollar investment, you’ll be able to warm up a cup of tea—sometimes even twice a day!!!!”
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Understand your point, but actually one can accomplish what you described, for $100. Basically - a trickle charger, a battery and once a day, a couple minutes of heat from some sort of low-wattage small heating element.
Solar isn’t yet anywhere near economically competitive, but can in a pinch (teotwawki or oil crunch etc) provide a VERY basic limited backup capability. Just marginally more convenient than camping.
If there’s literally no power, for $100 ... that’s somewhat better than nothing. Sort of. :)
Unless one has an unlimited budget (your $40,000 reference) — in which case it’s actually possible to build a system capable of supporting nearly a “normal” house power load.
Mostly a hobby until the technology improves.
The pump can be good, but pumping into a restriction or excessive back-pressure that causes the power usage to go up - waaaaay up.
Most of the time, people with wells never think much about friction losses and excessive “head pressure” (ie, pressure at the head of a well). That is, until they’re in your situation, where you have a finite amount of energy at your daily disposal, and you find yourself saying “Wow, a huge chunk of our energy usage is spent getting water out of the ground.”
If you can get those pressure (PSI) and GPM numbers, then if you can get the HP and/or model # of your well pump flip me a message a PM and I can run some numbers for you on what your pump “should” be pulling for power draw. We used to own a farm in Nevada with four irrigation wells and a domestic well.... so I’ve been down this road with wells that had power bills in the $3K to $5K/month range. It costs a lot of money to pump 1200 GPM out of a well 235’ deep at 30 PSI...
Thank you so much. I have no idea of the numbers. I’ll have to see if my husband knows. I’m not even sure he does. We had the well dug about 6 years ago, costly over 12,000 to have it done. Our well is over 300’ deep.
Yea :( we get a lot of snow here. In fact it’s been snowing for days now. We have at least 150” of snow, it’s probably more just not sure. Usually we get around 250” give or take a few.
I don’t think we can go hydro, no reliable running water on our property.
Yes...like any technology...over time...it will become more affordable.
I’ve seen some housing developments up here in NE using geo and the homes are twice a expensive as comps per sq footage.
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