Home made energy scams

biomorph said:
Um, just to keep me up to speed, what sort of brushes are not carbon?

thse have been around forever havn't they? not sure there's any other kind...
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In danish they are just refered to as coals.

There are some for shaftgrounding that contain a lot of silver in the coal.
They are called coals too.
 
scottksmith said:
There is a great deal of misinformation in the above posts.
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Which ones, exactly?

The point is that in most homes, unless you regularly leave lights on in vacant rooms, TV's running with no one watching, etc. then you probably are not using a LOT of POWER at any given time. The BIG BIG BIG power consumers in any home are electric water heaters and clothes dryers. Even a modern, full size refrigerator uses VERY little POWER.
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Are you sure?
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2007/04/11/electronicsenergy.pdf
From this article. A modern, full size refrigerator appears to be one of the biggest users of power.
 
They forgot to include electric irons used to get creases out of clothes. They would use heaps.

Dishwashers do not use that much electricity. If they stop you from washing up twice for every load you put on then you have actually saved energy and water.

Edit. I assume the only device for heating and cooking food is a microwave in the USA? He did not mention hot plates or ordinary ovens.

Edit2. I forgot to say I am looking at the pdf that Cuddles linked.
 
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If you run your vacationhome with solarcells, lead batteries and an 230V inverter, you should worry about the frigde depleting the batteries with its accumolated consumption, and worry about your coffemachine, electric kettle or microwave oven popping the fuse with their peak load.
 
Toke said:
If you run your vacationhome with solarcells, lead batteries and an 230V inverter, you should worry about the frigde depleting the batteries with its accumolated consumption, and worry about your coffemachine, electric kettle or microwave oven popping the fuse with their peak load.
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Running a vacation home on solar would be iffy at best. Maybe a few lights and a Peltier cell fridge. Battery weight should also be considered, since it will impinge on gas mileage.
Here is a good article that outlines the various parameters to consider.
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/disted/ph162/l4.html

Edit: by the way, not that it matters, but this thread was really intended to discuss the "scams" that are going on that are trying to sell folks false information. The claim is that running your house on solar is easy. Not so. Making your own solar cells is easy. Not so. In particular, I was interested in how they are able to subvert Google to their own purposes by putting out their own bogus debunking.
While not really a derail, much of what is being posted does not rely on fact, so it sort of shows that some people have already bought into the scam to some extent.
 
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I realized today after re-reading the above post, that "vacation home" (the term used by Toke) was not "motorhome". I had "motorhome" stuck in my brain. So the post makes no sense! Sorry.
 
Olowkow said:
I realized today after re-reading the above post, that "vacation home" (the term used by Toke) was not "motorhome". I had "motorhome" stuck in my brain. So the post makes no sense! Sorry.
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No problem, my translation skills sucks.
There are solar systems sold for "summer houses, cottages, vacation house, kolonihavehus". They rely in part on you only being there for the weekend.
 
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