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Post by missasip on Jun 13, 2013 6:22:33 GMT -7
Yeah, I know music can be intimidating. It just drives home once again that some skills sure seem a lot more useful than mine. I'm not going to say that music was easy, only some aspects of it. Learning to read it takes time and patience. Playing it and/or singing it, with enough proficiency to please the ear takes a willingness to make a LOT of mistakes (because mistakes are inevitable), but expend the effort to avoid making the same one(s) again. Difficult executions must be practiced until they flow seamlessly with the rest of the music. Once the mechanics are mastered, one then adds expression of thought/feeling/sensation to the music. It is here where the professionals diverge; amateurs can play the notes but their music "says nothing". A pro can elicit all sorts of thoughts/feelings/sensations from the listener. In the electrical skills arena, there are laws of physics that dictate a lot of what's possible, what's dangerous, and what is needed for a given task. Neatness and an organized appearance/structure seem to go hand in hand with a created entity that fulfills a given function perfectly. I have no idea of what the parts as a whole can do and very little idea of what they could do individually. It's intriguing how many parallels there are between these areas (electrical stuff and music).    Jimmy |
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Post by solargeek1 on Jun 13, 2013 8:25:33 GMT -7
I LOVE THIS! Keep posting and for sure let us know approximate costs.
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Post by cowgirlup on Jun 13, 2013 9:54:48 GMT -7
That's a heck of a set-up. What would you estimate something like that costs? I'd like to know that too. Hydro is an option we have if we had the money to put into it. One of the previous owners of the house had planned to put in hydro power and back feed it to the electric company. For some reason they got nearly done with the project and then quit. |
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Post by marc on Jun 13, 2013 10:46:14 GMT -7
I will find out, but:
His system would not a good one to gauge the cost small hydro for a home. He has enough capacity for a whole bunch of homes!
In micro hydro, the labor for electrical/plumbing, plus the cost of the piping, can be higher than the cost of the other hardware.So much of it depends on where the water is and where it needs to go.
Remember that this one is so successful because the spring on a hill almost 200' higher than the turbines - gravity is the motive force.
Feeding the electric company can raise a WHOLE bunch of issues, permits, hardware and headaches - depending on their attitude toward it.......
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Post by cowgirlup on Jun 13, 2013 12:26:30 GMT -7
I did pick up the fact that this was much bigger than you'd need for a single home. And, If we ever had an alternative power source we wouldn't want to be hooked into the grid. |
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Post by marc on Jun 13, 2013 15:44:06 GMT -7
I did pick up the fact that this was much bigger than you'd need for a single home. And, If we ever had an alternative power source we wouldn't want to be hooked into the grid. Agreed! |
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Post by orly152 on Jun 13, 2013 16:51:36 GMT -7
Wow, that is really sweet marc. I bet this cost him some serious money to put his dream together. Thanks for sharing
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