From: Steve B. <st...@pi...> - 2014-04-17 07:08:49
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 19:03:23 -0400, you wrote: >On Wednesday 16 April 2014 18:56:52 jeremy youngs did opine: > >> gene, ive been ogling one of jon elsons servo controllers for my >> treadmill motored mill . but alas i want to do that upgrade after the >> 1000 $ to ship the mill to home in missouri. it seems almost purpose >> made for the application. i have been waiting to get the mill there as >> i have been building solar panels and i think that it would be pretty >> cool to make chips from sun power and there is not near as much sun >> here in upstate mew york . Modern panels are designed to work in daylight and don't need full Sunlight. >Now that sounds like a cool project. Post pix of the array & storage, and >the mill as work proceeds. I've not bit the bullet for any solar yet, but >ready kilowatt has gone on strike for 19 days at a time several times over >the last 6 years, so I did put in a 20kw nat gas generator last fall. > >Might go solar if it ever gets down to a penny a watt, but thats not going >to happen as long as Obummer is messing with it, and locally (WV) we have >no rule about selling power back to the utils either. They would rather >burn coal & make more acid rain. They drastically reduced the sell back rate over here too! It's now 6.61p/kWh - was as high as 15 - 40p plus depending on when installed and how much supplied. Break even point is roughly 12 years over here for a domestic installation. We'd rather import Polish coal and Russian gas and burn that (even though we have plenty of our own untapped/mined) and stick up those noisy, inefficient, eyesore wind turbine bird killers. Steve Blackmore -- |