Sturdy Pete
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finding the fine line between renewable and wasteful.. perhaps with the advances in battery technology we'll see a re-chargable battery big enough to charge up at home :unsure:
Fushion Julz said:But for a party, solar/wind power is very expensive and not very portable...
I'm trying to put enough together to run 7.5Kw of rig with lights and ancilleries, but it is going to cost around the £4-5K mark without taking into account the stuff needed to house it in/on the van and the likleyhood of needing a bigger van.
Of course, the extra weight will need more diesel in the van to shift it too...
Nothing is straightforward! :?
Biggins2012 said:Fushion Julz said:But for a party, solar/wind power is very expensive and not very portable...
I'm trying to put enough together to run 7.5Kw of rig with lights and ancilleries, but it is going to cost around the £4-5K mark without taking into account the stuff needed to house it in/on the van and the likleyhood of needing a bigger van.
Of course, the extra weight will need more diesel in the van to shift it too...
Nothing is straightforward! :?
yeah its hard work, Si Splatt of Synchronistic Sounds/Positivitea (leeds) has a small 12v rig thats taken about three years to put together and that still runs on batteries (that have to be charged). I believe he now has some PV equipment as well but not quite enough as yet.
didn't ID sp[iral at glade have a whle world of PV panels running their rig?
phlee said:It is pink with yellow spotsLike Mr Blobby! :wow:
Sturdy Pete said:i've recently come across a rather spurious rumour - that the solar chill at glade was not, infact, solar powered, just made to look like it! apparently it was all ready to go running on solar and then an organiser decided not to risk it and went for mains?!
this came from someone working with the electrics for the glade.. but at least 2nd or 3rd hand info by the time i heard it.
anyone know what was actually going on? :huh:
Taika-Kim said:The whole vacuum energy thing seems so bogus, the main proponent (I can't remember his name now, the american psycho who spent the 80s writing about soviet secret tesla weapons & other paranoid stuff like that...) has been at it for decades, and the best he has to show is a plea for a few million bucks to "continue experimenting" and people to buy his book about it.
It's a nice idea, but I'm afraid reality just doesn't work that way...
psyfi said:Has anyone seen that advert for I think its Esso or one of the big petrol giants where they say that they have been producing the fuel of the future for a hundred years :mad:
Dose that mean that they are going to give up on petrol and go in to the water business to fuel hydrogen cars then?
The hydrogen cars aren’t like those pissy electric cars that hum along like a milk float there quit fast and powerful and the technology has been around for sometime now. At first you had to put pure hydrogen in but now you can put water in and it separates the hydrogen and oxygen out with electrodes to power the car with water being the only resulting exhaust.
If Esso did do this would they put the price of water up leaving the poor of the world to die from dehydration?
Of course we will still need oil to lubricate the moving parts dos anyone know of alternative lubes and don't say love lube you cheeky monkeys.
Me thinks there is some web surfing to do on this one.