"PrecisionMachinisT" wrote in message
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"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:33:05 GMT, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

My thought is to move it in quietly, and muffle it as totally best yuo
can.
Run it in a stand of trees or bushes for further muffling. My sense is
that
your neighbors will protest the small engine being "high pollution" and
you'll get shut down.


Where I live, unincorporated rural, tis not an issue. Trust me on
this G

OUt of sight (out of hearing range) out of mind.

Thinking.... is gasoline cheaper than Greyout Electric? I ran the
numbers
in
the Northern Tools catalog. Galon of gas, figures out to about 2,000
watts
for one hour of runtime.

Hence my desire for diesel. Plus the storage issues are smaller.

Thinking.... pipe it into natural gas, if that's any cheaper?


Thats possible.

Gunner



Gunner,

Dont be a fool......

Stormin has it right on this one-- if the utility could power ya up
cheaper
with diesel or gas out by the pole youda thunk theyda thunk of it
beforehand, no ???

It'll cost ya close to 3 times that in diesel or gas, by my
estimate........

Too expensive ???

Then go find some shop to do your welding for you !!!

For comparison's sake, the latest Honda generators in the 5 kW class burn
0.80 gal. of gasoline/hr., roughly, when putting out their rated capacity of
5 kW. That's $1.60/hr., at $2.00 gal, or 32 cents/kW-hr.

Their similar propane-fueled generator has a continuous rating of 6 kW, at 5
lb propane/hr. At 4.25 pounds/gal, that's 1.18 gal/hr. Propane sold to
residences is price-volatile, running between $1.60 and $2.00/gal right now,
according to association reports. Taking the average, that means a per-kW-hr
prices of around 35 cents. Natural gas typically runs 12 - 15% cheaper than
propane per btu, but I don't know if the Hondas will run on it.

Most engines require a lot less maintenance running on propane or natural
gas than they do when running on liquid fuel. Still, it doesn't look like
any kind of a deal either way.

--
Ed Huntress