Posted on 04/04/2024 9:43:36 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
” I have no interest to be up on roofs or selling solar mine was from a prepper mindset all the other benefits were incidental.”
Oh how I loathe Google auto spell.
You and I have similar mindsets and systems. You are right the commies are an easy binary. No one forced me to add a EV to my stable. It makes sense from a cost per mile and prepper lifestyle. The dotgovs cannot turn off the sun.
The energy industry is just that they want to sell energy. I saw in Addison Texas today at the destination bar/restaurant area on beltline where there are 25+ restaurants and equal number of bars and coffee shops Shell fast DC charging stations all four guns were in use by non Tesla cars at 45 cents per kWh.
Across the complex is a 20 bay Tesla supercharger it was also almost full two bays left. It had a single green box transformer feeding it from the size of it probably a 1200kva 12.2kv three phase. There is triple phase powerlines 50 feet away with at least 2000mcm aluminum.cables at 12.2kv those are thousands of amps at 12,200v no shortage of power capacity there.
Shell, Exxon they want to sell a unit of energy for a profit they don’t care if it is liquid or electrons. Fast DC charging can bring in $150,000 in net revenue charging for 6 hours or less per day Shell is making bank at these destination chargers.
I haven’t pulled from the grid since March 10, for my all-electric home, even with having to charge my EV. I just wish I could make gasoline for my ICE pickup as easily as I use solar to charge my EV. But I can’t. So if I want most of my transportation to be energy self reliant, then I do most of my driving in the EV.
“Hooking it up with a front wheel dolly so the back tires rotate will charge it while being towed. Adds drag to the tow vehicle, but the weenie doing it usually is so self absorbed and in EV righteousness to them it’s “Free Energy” from the sucker doing the pulling.”
Theoretically possible in a RWD Tesla if the driver is in the vehicle and pressing the brake pedal while being towed but no state I know of is it legal for the driver to be in the vehicle under commercial tow that’s a huge no no by law and the insurance company of the tow driver would have his job post haste. You can get someone to come with a commercial sized diesel generator that will put out 50 amps of 240v a Tesla won’t take a floating ground three wire circuit you have to have true earth four wire to real ground so portable generator are out ,commercial ones with a grounding rod driven to earth would work but only at 7.2 or 11kw so not.worth it. High V DC generators are hideously expensive specialized equipment. The better way is to use a commercial 60kw 480v/3phase gen set to feed a portable 50kw hvdc charger those are ten grand or so and the size of a steamer trunk plus on.wheels. This is how almost all rescue charge services work they bring in a portable fast DC and put in 50 miles of range that’s enough to get the inept tech person to a supercharger that the car was desperately trying to get them to stop at the last few they passed ignoring the one screen navigation commands. It’s cheaper just to flat bed the car to the closest fast DC which in a city would be a dozen mad or less away. I’m sitting smoking a cigar with no less than 30 fast DC spots in a two mile radius my Tesla is outside in sentry mode at 65% and I am only 40 miles from home, range anxiety nope not in the least. It would have cost me four gallons of $4.09 a gallon for 93 today. Instead I am on my big trip for the week on free power from the panels from 12 to 3 pm today...Loving every mile of it.
“I haven’t pulled from the grid since March 10, for my all-electric home, even with having to charge my EV”
Thsts impressive with a all electric home. I have read your past posts on your conversion from gas to electric. I pull from the grid at night only. My home is gas water and gas central heat plus gas cooking outside I did go induction inside once I saw the real data on the NOx from stoves even with vent hoods to the outside. I’m asthmatic and the NOx is bad for that. I like the induction is faster to boil than gas ever was and the fine temp control is second to none.
I was in a galaxy far away and long ago while at University a commercial cook, ran a grill station and sous as well. So I demand fine temp control and modern induction is the best it beats gas hands down. My outside kitchen has a monster of a six burner 35,000 btu with dual ovens but it vents to the sky and I don’t have to breathe in all the NOx or SOx or radon.
I don’t think of alternative energy as a way to save energy. In a SHTF scenario, I wouldn’t care what I would have to pay for the used cooking oil, I am thinking of how to move a vehicle with no fuel pumps.
For me, this is all pipe dreams because they mostly require capital I do not have. Also, none of us really know which SHTF scenario(s) would come into play, or how they would play out.
I certainly didn’t want the crappy Solar City/Tesla solar, but we were forced to buy in a tight housing market. At least we got a great interest rate. The solar is an albatross, and works better on an upscale home outside the city proper. And yes, much better if you can buy it instead of leasing it from those vultures who will not give a discount to buy out the lease.
“The solar is an albatross, and works better on an upscale home outside the city proper. And yes, much better if you can buy it instead of leasing it from those vultures who will not give a discount to buy out the lease.”
You nailed it. It really is predatory lending and as the Father would say usury which is a sin. I didn’t get panels for green energy reasons I saw the dotgovs especially ERCOT messing up big time. I.was like what power source can they not mess with? That thermonuclear fireball in the sky unless they go full Dr evil and put up aerosols in the sky for climate communism then solar is a safe bet. The key is find someone with a TIN number and get wholesale 450 watt panels commercial grade they are large but light the avg residential roof has the loading to take them. Mine are from Taiwan I didn’t want chicom panels even through they were cheaper.
I have a background as a programmer with most of my years on the backend doing data processing and generating reports. So I use those skills for my family, particularly with the Dims’ warmageddon cult energy policies. If I didn’t take the time to study my inverters’ data export, I’d probably be at 70% energy self reliant instead of 80%.
But more important than that is studying the Bible and believing it.
First, your option costs thousands of dollars for a 15KW generator. Then there’s the fuel used to run it for 3 hours. Most generators can’t use natural gas directly but rely on propane, which means storage tanks like you mentioned. While you have access to a 250 gallon storage tank, some people living in condos or HOA communities don’t have such access. Same for sticking a 10KW wind turbine on a 30’ pole.
Finally, for most who do buy EVs, all that it does is push the fossil fuel source one step further down the line. Instead of putting distillate fuel into your car’s tank, you plug into a grid (that consumes energy itself to deliver the voltage) that goes back to a power plant that is often driven by some form of distillate fuel, natural gas, or coal. Green energy is actually brown when you factor in direct (fuel consumption), indirect (distribution costs), and amortized (capital depreciation) costs.
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