AgroVenturesPeru
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Most days I top out my 14kwh battery bank before 11am. I thought about doing crypto mining, but my internet is abysmal. Any other ideas?
sell it to next door?I've gotten comments ranging from buy an electric car (if you don't have one yet) to run a freeze dryer to prep some food storage. I did a rain-harvest system and the pump + UV uses a little power. Maybe a treadmill - and get fit using power? I've already done hot water, whole house heat-pump, dryer, etc etc.
In my case, I'm slowly expanding to have enough power in winter - so I'll have excess in summer and I'm just coming to grips that it's OK 'to not use excess PV power' if my goal is to power my home all year round and yet stay off-grid.
It crossed my mind but there's liability/trust issues and if someone got wind of a 'power cable' running from my house to the neighbors.... or a neighbor's house caught fire or xxx. Yikes.sell it to next door?
Don't know what the regulatory environment is like where you are but that would be illegal in Australia.sell it to next door?
I have 3 x 2500gal water tanks as part of my rain harvest. I did some math on the idea of raising them maybe 10ft in the air with excess PV and then generating power as they lowered back down. Unfortunately, this kind of 'mechanical' power generation - e.g. lower 8tons by 10ft is *very small* amounts of power - on the order of <100w.so much red tape and distrust these days. if you have a well i would say build a water tower and use it for water and energy storage.
pumped hydro is still better value than battery. but theres probably a law against that too
Electric car is not a bad idea either!
Crypto mining doesn't use a whole lot of bandwidth. Latency could be an issue I suppose. I imagine anything below 80ms would be fine.Most days I top out my 14kwh battery bank before 11am. I thought about doing crypto mining, but my internet is abysmal. Any other ideas?
Even panels take mechanical energy to manufacture.I have 3 x 2500gal water tanks as part of my rain harvest. I did some math on the idea of raising them maybe 10ft in the air with excess PV and then generating power as they lowered back down. Unfortunately, this kind of 'mechanical' power generation - e.g. lower 8tons by 10ft is *very small* amounts of power - on the order of <100w.
Similarly there's a youtube guy @Quint Builds that did a rain gutter generator - and achieved ~2w of power in heavy downflow after much work.
To me - its startling how much mechanical energy it takes to generate power. Whereas solar panels just sit there and as long as the sun is available, they produce like crazy
can confirm this is good idea. i built a system that has run a few years now. i took box section aluminium and put 450w of 220v driverless leds on it. inside is one long tube and one short tube sealed in each end with sikoflex.How about growing your own food? Hydroponics pump, grow lights, heater, etc. I've done this on a very small scale, growing wheat grass, green onions, cilantro, alfalfa sprouts.
Most days I top out my 14kwh battery bank before 11am. I thought about doing crypto mining, but my internet is abysmal. Any other ideas?