One cubix cord of dry Oak weighs around 4000 LBS
so that's 400 hrs or 33.3 days. To date this winter I have burnt 1.4
Cubix cords of Oak. At 10 lbs per hour, it will be expensive to make my own power
Sounds good but out of my league even just cutting off my 200-acre bush lot would
be a lot of time and effort and that adds up to $
For people that are not on a grid power is expensive to produce.
I grew up on a remote highway in the Yukon Territory, my family had a highway lodge.
In order to have the connivance of power 24/7 that was required to operate the highway lodge there were 3 power plants. They were of varying sizes so the one appropriate for the load could be used.My Dad had to maintain them, plus maintain the electrical system as there was nobody to call.
Fast forward to today there is still a lodge on the highway, but it is a destination resort only open in the summer for basically fly in rich people.
They still have to generate their own power. I supply bulk fuel as one of my services. I just went and filled their fuel tank at the beginning of January. They closed for business around the end of September.
Their fill was a little over 1900 US gallons of fuel which came to about $14600.00 Canadian dollars.
Now for whatever reason they have not invested in any sort of battery bank, chargers, and inverters. So their case is a worst case scenario . In the off season all they power is one home the lodge buildings get winterized and shut down.
Myself i would be very interested in exploring the option of having one for a few reasons.
I am on the grid, i have a gasification boiler that i have been using for about 13 years. I plan on getting into the firewood business and logging my own wood. We only have Spruce wood up here.
I will have access to a supply of wood that will be fairly cheap, and there is legislation in place that the power utility has to buy your excess power generated by renewables.
I am also setting up a new shop complex as my current location is for sale, as i plan on getting out of fuel delivery after 27 years.
Having experience with a gasifcation boiler that was one of the options i was looking at for heat, up-sizing to one that could produce power would definitely be a consideration. I have numerous pressure tanks i have accumulated for storage and could see a power modal as an excellent addition to the shop complex.
