08-08-2008, 12:52 PM
True, Greg, but if you have the propane stove with a pilot light in the oven, you can use it for drying things, too.
We had a propane refrigerator but it used too much propane so we swapped it for a new electric one. We didn't upgrade our solar array and it still managed to run the electric refrigerator. We've been running on 600 watts of solar panels for eight years now, sometime soon we are going to get more panels, I think, since we just got a chest freezer at last week's garage sales. There is a website on how to turn a Volvo (or was it Subaru?) front axle into a wind generator using wire wound coils circling in a fiberglass ring over rare earth magnets mounted on the brake disc. Three big wooden blades to catch the wind for spin. It looked like a pretty kewl project to me! It is supposed to generate about 400 watts at low wind speeds and doesn't look all that difficult to make.
I think around here to get the same "style" of appliance you can opt for all one same color. That's about as much style as folks around here bother with and most times not even that. We generally get whatever color is on sale but so far it's always been white.
The on demand water heater (we got white so it would be the same style as the rest of the appliances) is a Bosch and we like it a lot. They sell them at Sauces & Propane up in Honoka'a. They also sell solar (photovoltaic) panels and propane, too, of course.
Solar power and wind power are basically free once you get the system set up. It isn't all that difficult to set up the systems, either. Much easier than copper plumbing and tile work.
We had a propane refrigerator but it used too much propane so we swapped it for a new electric one. We didn't upgrade our solar array and it still managed to run the electric refrigerator. We've been running on 600 watts of solar panels for eight years now, sometime soon we are going to get more panels, I think, since we just got a chest freezer at last week's garage sales. There is a website on how to turn a Volvo (or was it Subaru?) front axle into a wind generator using wire wound coils circling in a fiberglass ring over rare earth magnets mounted on the brake disc. Three big wooden blades to catch the wind for spin. It looked like a pretty kewl project to me! It is supposed to generate about 400 watts at low wind speeds and doesn't look all that difficult to make.
I think around here to get the same "style" of appliance you can opt for all one same color. That's about as much style as folks around here bother with and most times not even that. We generally get whatever color is on sale but so far it's always been white.
The on demand water heater (we got white so it would be the same style as the rest of the appliances) is a Bosch and we like it a lot. They sell them at Sauces & Propane up in Honoka'a. They also sell solar (photovoltaic) panels and propane, too, of course.
Solar power and wind power are basically free once you get the system set up. It isn't all that difficult to set up the systems, either. Much easier than copper plumbing and tile work.
Kurt Wilson