Quote from myoffices:
MY generator is 13 hp and as you say the hybrid engine is 15 hp. If you add a few alternators which are really conduit capicitors which reserve power for controlled consumption then you have reserve power. 9 hours on 6.6 gallons. The gas powers the Generator and the generator powers the engine.
Its that lack of innovation that created the condition of american mental gridlock. 240 volts or 120 with a few modifications is the core of this concept. I don't hold an MIT degree but all I know is that I can run 9 hours of heavy duty equipment like compressors in a machine shop with no problem and therefore 9 hours is 9 hours as far as Im concerned. Power is Power its either off or its on.
AT worst case scenario we could all find our self with a Fred Flinstone model. Just pop out the bottom of the seat and start with a feet to the floor approach. LOL...
WE ARE AMERICANS.. EMPHASIS ON THE CAN.
NOT AMERICANTS......
Im the kid who took the christmas car and made a boat out of it. WHo took the lawn mower and made a go cart. Its that innovation that America needs... I won't be the guy to make this but I am confident that we will get a solution once we find a way to not offend the Oil COmpanies..
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but you're way off base here. 13HP generators do not cost $399. A boat anchor with 13HP stickers on its sides might cost $399. If you are not convinced, load your generator to about 6500 watts and let it run for an hour or two.
A decent 13HP generator will cost at least $1000, and it is not rated for continuous use. In other words, its duty cycle is relatively low and designed for intermittent home use (not 9 hours of use at FULL capacity). An industrial 13HP generator, something that is rated for continuous use at full capacity, will cost a couple thousand dollars and up (my 7100 watt Hitachi cost $2500).
And let me reiterate my original point. You do NOT want to commute in a 15HP vehicle. Even an extremely light hybrid, an Insight for example, has a 65HP gasoline engine (the Civic hybrid has a 110HP engine). The electric motor is most beneficial in city driving where it is used early in the gasoline engineâs torque curve (low RPM). The electric motor is not designed to propel the vehicle without the gasoline engine.
And alternators are NOT âbasically conduit compacitors which reserve power for controlled consumption then you have reserve power.â I have no idea where you were going with that one. Your generator IS an alternator with an engine attached to it. Adding alternators without adding HP to drive them is pointless.
I hope I didnât come across too negative. You have the right attitude, and I agree with what you said, âIf America wants new ideas let new people in to tackle the new problems.â But you are oversimplifying a complex subject with, at best, subpar information, something which is usually reserved for investment threads and political threads.