Ski Lift Running on Solar Power

For brucies idea, I don't think there is any immediate evidence to suggest that diesel will run out or that prices will rise dramatically in the near future. There is also the possibility that they could be run on oil from the local kebab houses (or similar). Many biofuels are useable with a slightly tweaked diesel engine.

Exactly Pablo, and for a fraction of the capital cost!!! I saw a generator in Aldi the other week that would probably do the job for £79.99(13,280 rappen at todays exchange rate)!!!

Lob in a gallon of bio diesel from the Fondue Mahal down the street every now and again and bobs your uncle!!!

In fact, lets buy a couple of quad bikes, head over to Tenna and make our fortune. Bottom to the top - 2 francs guvnor!!!

Pablo Escobar wrote:For brucies idea, I don't think there is any immediate evidence to suggest that diesel will run out or that prices will rise dramatically in the near future. There is also the possibility that they could be run on oil from the local kebab houses (or similar). Many biofuels are useable with a slightly tweaked diesel engine.

That's quite true Pablo, I had totally forgotten about running the engine on biofuels. Thanks. But fossil fuels are still going to run out, although no-one knows when, for sure. And politically, countries don't like to have to rely on foreign energy sources.

Where I live, here in Pembrokeshire, we have recently had a demonstration of that, in that they have built a massive gas pipe line from here into England so that they can bring in LNG by ship here and hence avoid another unpleasant gas shortage situation like the one recently where the Russians stopped gas transportation to various countries.

Ally

Brucie wrote:Exactly Pablo, and for a fraction of the capital cost!!! I saw a generator in Aldi the other week that would probably do the job for £79.99(13,280 rappen at todays exchange rate)!!!

Lob in a gallon of bio diesel from the Fondue Mahal down the street every now and again and bobs your uncle!!!

In fact, lets buy a couple of quad bikes, head over to Tenna and make our fortune. Bottom to the top - 2 francs guvnor!!!

Brucie,
If I am right, and that drag lift requires 18 kilowatts of energy per hour, you'd only need about a gallon an hour of diesel, or equivalent, to run it. But I think they are hoping to make some money out of the solar panel system.

AllyG wrote:

Pablo Escobar wrote:For brucies idea, I don't think there is any immediate evidence to suggest that diesel will run out or that prices will rise dramatically in the near future. There is also the possibility that they could be run on oil from the local kebab houses (or similar). Many biofuels are useable with a slightly tweaked diesel engine.

That's quite true Pablo, I had totally forgotten about running the engine on biofuels. Thanks. But fossil fuels are still going to run out, although no-one knows when, for sure. And politically, countries don't like to have to rely on foreign energy sources.

Where I live, here in Pembrokeshire, we have recently had a demonstration of that, in that they have built a massive gas pipe line from here into England so that they can bring in LNG by ship here and hence avoid another unpleasant gas shortage situation like the one recently where the Russians stopped gas transportation to various countries.

Ally

I doubt they will totally run out in our life time. Sure they will become more scarce but run out they will not. Vast quantities in deep water pools and previous wells which were not financial viable will become practical to explore.

Countries have to rely on foreign energy sources. I don't expect that Luxembourg, for example, will ever be able to create enough for its needs. Even the big oil producing countries buy oil as well as trading out their own.

They could also use more diesel than required and sell the excess back to the grid.

Pablo,
I don't think they'd get subsidized to sell electricity produced by diesel as it's not a renewable source. And I don't think even biofuel was on that list as a renewable source of electricity. But it's nice to know that you are thinking about energy production now :lol:

The U.K. government is very worried already about future energy sources, which is why it has finally agreed to build more nuclear power stations in spite of all the problems associated with them. And why they are also subsidizing green electricity (and digging up our countryside to lay new gas pipelines).

Ally

But, in energy terms, the solar system should be able to pay for itself in about 6 years.

Can't do the quotes on my phone, but aside from the size of the bill, where are you gonna send it?

Tino,
I would say that Gaia is getting more and more into debt because of the way we humans behave, and it is she that suffers, until she gets into such a bad state that we all suffer as well (and possibly become totally wiped out as a species here on earth).

And I am just as guilty as anyone else, in fact more guilty than most of the people sharing this planet with me.