Commercial Electric Power for shop on acreage.
Crunched the numbers again. Basic price just to have electricity to the shop is between $18 and $19 a month. Then there would be a minor charge for electricity used.
Using $18 a month times 12, divided by the current price of gasoline, I could purchase 100 gallons of gasoline. Which would operate the shop for around 600 to 700 hours.
Don't power the shop for any where near 600 hours a year, perhaps 50 to 100 hours a year. Need the 4 KW and 8 KW generator sets to power the house and son's house during power outages. And the shop based 10 KW, when powered up, to operate the welders and plasma cutter.
Neighbor who runs cattle on the acreage asked me to reinstall the well to water cattle. Problem is, when the drought hits and the ponds dry up, I still have the only year around spring fed water hole and pond to water cattle within a few miles. So don't need to rebuild the well. The water table, even in sever drought, is about 12" below the surface on the lower portion of the acreage.
Son is will lose his current employment in 9 to 12 months. Son had talked about selling his current house and building one on the acreage. This has a number of energy saving possibilities, using the year around spring for geothermal heating and cooling.
Any way, just thinking.
Crunched the numbers again. Basic price just to have electricity to the shop is between $18 and $19 a month. Then there would be a minor charge for electricity used.
Using $18 a month times 12, divided by the current price of gasoline, I could purchase 100 gallons of gasoline. Which would operate the shop for around 600 to 700 hours.
Don't power the shop for any where near 600 hours a year, perhaps 50 to 100 hours a year. Need the 4 KW and 8 KW generator sets to power the house and son's house during power outages. And the shop based 10 KW, when powered up, to operate the welders and plasma cutter.
Neighbor who runs cattle on the acreage asked me to reinstall the well to water cattle. Problem is, when the drought hits and the ponds dry up, I still have the only year around spring fed water hole and pond to water cattle within a few miles. So don't need to rebuild the well. The water table, even in sever drought, is about 12" below the surface on the lower portion of the acreage.
Son is will lose his current employment in 9 to 12 months. Son had talked about selling his current house and building one on the acreage. This has a number of energy saving possibilities, using the year around spring for geothermal heating and cooling.
Any way, just thinking.