Generating Electrical Power
How to generate Power at Home
Generating electrical power at home is becoming an ever prudent move as
Wall Street, the government, and the power plants in particular feel a
need to drive us all into the ground.
But as with just about anything that has to do with middle class America the fix is in to take advantage of our ignorance of most things.
We will examine various ways of producing our own power at home with out falling into the hands of greedy corporate, governmental agendas and wall street, who's only desire is to skin us alive.
Home power Generation
You can buy a generator that will give you 120 ac to run your home items in an emergence, but they are only good for short time use. Again praying on the middle class. Just like if you took your SUV off road everyday it's not going to last that long.
These generators have been built with a short life span in mind. One no one want them to take the place of the grid. If that ever caught on it would kill the energy market and then we'd create a pollution problem compared to the automobile. Then you would find yourself having to get your generator smogged every two years.
You know how the power companies and the government is always telling you to conserve well if you did it would throw the Markets into a tail spin and the top dogs of society would lose big time.
But these over the counter generators are great for power outages and emergencies. They are just not built for 7/24 usage.
Portable Power Generators
If you are thinking about long term off grid generation your car is a great place to start. Everything in your car has been designed for 7/24 usage. Although not to the extent of years ago it has been built to last. If you have an economic car having a high watt alternator installed and connecting it to an inverter can offer a great alternative to on grid power.
You will have to conserve but you can run off grid. Just add up the total watts your going to use and get an inverter that exceeds that value and a battery of batteries. If you keep the batteries, say, in the trunk of your car the power inverter can also be installed in your car and you just run a power cord from the car to your house.
Or you can store the batteries in your home and run the DC current from your car to the batteries in your home and the inverter off of that. But you must have the shortest distance between the car and the batteries because DC current needs very thick cables and there is a lot of loss with resistance.
Inverters
Batteries
Car batteries will not work for powering your home. They have been designed to only start your car after only a few discharges they are rendered useless. When a battery goes through charge and discharge a bit of the material on the plates is lost, a car battery has very thin plates because it is used in a situation where there should be no real charge and discharge. Your only starting the car, once the car has started the battery is immediately recharged. This tiny bit of discharge, although does have a tiny effect on the plates, is of no great degree.
The batteries needed to power a home power system are batteries designed to go through many deep charge and discharge cycles. Fork lift batteries work really well, but they can cost in the thousands of dollars. Setting up an off grid home power system can run into some real money.
Like the PC home power stations could work a lot better then the grid system we have today but it would give the power to the people instead of the corporations and Wall Street, they are not going to let this go. Big Blue was caught off guard with the PC, they thought the PC had no future. Wall Street won't let that happen again.
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