On 5/5/2017 7:42 PM, AnthonyL wrote:
I was watching the early development of electricity generation and
houses had their own coal fired generators before power distribution
became widespread.

Now is the time of year my fuel contracts come up for renewal; I can
get gas at less that 3p/kwH but my electricity supplier (soon not to
be) has upped their rate to nearly 14p/kwH which had me wondering
about the economics of using the cheaper gas to generate my
electricity.

ok, a bit t-i-c but it'd be fun having my own steam generator
(modified boiler?), turbine and generator. I recall a viable jet
engine (intended for VTOL some 45yrs ago) that could be picked up by
one person so a turbine needn't be too big.


One of my former colleagues was hoping to develop, after retiring, a
commercially viable domestic CHP source using a lorry turbocharger fired
by natural gas driving an electrical generator in a unit about the size
of a large boiler. I assume he was thinking about something like a
"dyson" high speed motor as the generator. I guess it never got beyond
the prototype stage.