Subject: [Homestead] Electricity costs and self-reliance
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:12:47 -0700
In addition to gasoline and propane prices, rising energy costs will
push electricity prices upward. Have any of you developed cost-
effective solar systems? Wood-fired or water-powered generators?
Anything?
How about water pumping? My cousin, the log-house builder, started out
with a system where a solar charger charged a twelve-volt battery,
which operated a small pump that put spring water into an old milk
tank on the hill above his house. Worked well, although he later
drilled a deep well, for greater dependability, volume and pressure.
The spring had become less and less dependable, likely due to land
clearing in the hills above.
[Homestead] Electricity costs and self-reliance,
Gene GeRue, 03/07/2008