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Topic: Anyone here have experience with running Gas Turbine Generators?
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Erick Akers
Arse Kicker
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Posts: 201
From: Dallas, TX, USA
Registered: May 2001
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posted 05-15-2004 01:49 AM
Hey guys,
I've been missing in action for a while;
and I just got back, guess no one missed me!
Anyway, i just aquired a 350 HP Jet Engine Powered 225 KW generator for practically nothing!!!
As Paul is our resident Radio Tower Jocky, I was hoping that
he or someone here might have worked with one before, and could shed some light on it's operation.
It's A Solar Spartan 225KW unit manufactured for Western Electric Bell Telephone systems,
but was actually used as a back up for a radio station.
It's in very nice shape, and only has 224 actual hours of running time.
Though I have been playing with Bio Diesel, I have been told that this unit can breeze through about 45 gallons an hour and so far I have only made about 100 gallons!
I guess I could strip the Jet engine and build something super wickedly awesome
Anyway,
what I would like too do is,
kick the power this baby can make, back into the power grid and have them pay me for a change!
Texas has some nice benefits for using Bio mass for power generation such as:
Exemption from property taxes, and penny for penny payback for up to 50 KW per hour; anything over, and they pay the wholesale rate ( thats what TXU told me, but it's unconfirmed.)
I'm just tinkering around now, but who knows!
Erick
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Phil Hill
I love my cootie bug
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From: Hollywood, CA USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 05-15-2004 02:30 AM
Welcome Back, Erick!
But, Holy Smokes! 225kW "jet" generator? You'd be better of selling it.
Don't know about the local power company where you are, but here in L.A., we have a great program with big-time tax benefits and very liberal programs to buy back excess power. A lot of folks around here pay no power bill and actually get money back each month.
The costs of the (monitoring, phasing, transfer) equipment you would need to hook up for such a large generator would be astronomical. Let alone the maintenance and fuel costs. It's NOT economically worth it. Plus, I wonder what your neighbors would say hearing that 747 running in the hood?
The typical "modern" residential power service is less than 50kW. Most theatres take a max of about 60kW or so.
Where you live, you'd be better off selling that unit and taking the $ and install solar panels. Not only for the efficiency and availability of the equipment and systems, but also for the tax breaks, lack of noise and maintenance, and all the free sunshine "fuel".
>>> Phil
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