Turquoise Energy News Report #183
Covering
August
2023 (Posted September 8th 2023)
Lawnhill BC Canada - by Craig Carmichael
[CraigXC at Post dot com]
www.TurquoiseEnergy.com
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Month In "Brief"
(Project Summaries etc.)
- Excuses - A Better Peltier Module? - Magnetic Variable
Transmission/Truck - Fires: Another Reason for Metal Walls on the Cabin
- Masset Airport Solar Power: Winter Sun Angles - Wind Power on Cargo
Ships - Ship Fire: Wasn't a Lithium Ion battery?
In
Passing
(Miscellaneous topics, editorial comments & opinionated rants)
- The Cause of Tinnitus: AC power fields - Scalp Mites/Hair Loss:
A Factoid & Exterminating - Hot Weather Ahead - SUDDEN SEA LEVEL
RISE (it's coming!) - Scattered
Thots ( - ) - ESD
- Detailed
Project Reports
-
Electric
Transport - Electric Hubcap Motor Systems
* Magnetic Variable Torque Converter
Other "Green"
& Electric Equipment Projects
* Cabin Construction
* August Gardening
Electricity Storage:
Batteries [no report]
Electricity Generation
* My Solar Power System: - The Usual Latest Daily/Monthly
Solar Production log et cetera - Monthly/Annual Summaries,
Estimates, Notes
August in Brief
First planted sunflowers - the
three that
survived the slugs in the spring -
now with lots of nice ripe seeds. a 9 and two 11 inch diameter heads,
ready to harvest.
Others are farther behind. (And the caterpillars have been fierce!)
Where have the energy projects gone? In the spring, gardening took my time, and I am
harvesting food to eat now or for cool storage, the freezer or drying.
Next spring might be a little easier, but I do want to extend the
garden by the house. Some things just grow better there - more sun, a
bit warmer.
In the summer in the nice weather I spent much
time working on my metal clad cabin. (metal:
electric field dampening;
fire resistant.) Every time the sun shone, which was lots, I was just
itching to get out there and do more. The lawn grew long and shaggy and
dishes got done when I ran out of clean ones. Well, so much for excuses.
Now autumn is arriving and (after hopefully putting up the
last two wall sections and then catching up on a lot of put-off things)
I should have more project time.
My present project thoughts for this winter are on two main ones: the
unipolar axial flux BLDC
motor (and, sigh, its six phase unipolar motor controller), and the new
chemistry batteries, this time made as plastic pocket electrode cells.
The pockets hold the electrodes compacted and the cell is
unpressurized, so they shouldn't spring leaks.
A Better Peltier Module?
I'm also
rather interested in trying to make a better performing Peltier module
with beryllium oxide ceramic instead of alume oxide, since no one else
seems to have tried it AFAICT. (The beryllium company hasn't replied.
How do they expect to get new industrial orders if they won't respond
to those wanting small R & D orders to develop new products?) If
indeed no one else has done it, it should (theoreticly) make the
world's best performing Peltier module. My main fabrication worry is
how to deposit solder (or ? metal) onto the ceramic. I've never looked
into that. Hmm, wait... I once deposited silver onto glass using silver
nitrate (a telescope mirror in 1974), so maybe that? (Silver is also a
fabulous heat conductor!) The small parts may also be daunting to work
with by hand. I can't find the little square thermocouples used in
Peltier modules to buy, but I can probably just disassemble (melt
open?) a couple of modules and get some out.
Magnetic Variable Transmission/Truck
In the little
time I've made for this this summer, in July I fitted the copper rotor
and found it was badly unbalanced and caused horrendous vibration. So
this month (August), I ground some high spots and areas off the copper
rotor's magnet face so it could be generally closer to the magnets,
then bolted a steel weight onto it to balance it. It seemed well
balanced.
It wasn't until September 5th that I put it back on the
truck and tried it out. There was much less vibration, but still far
too much to try and take a drive. I clamped a video camera on the side
to see underneath and ran it again. Even at the lowest speed, the
planetary gear and rear driveshaft were shimmying back and forth as the
gear body turned. After a couple of minutes reflection I realized that
the steel weight on the copper rotor was pulling the Hallbach
configured supermagnet rotor toward itself on one side, and there was
enough play in the shafts & gear to cause the shimmy. (Maybe if I
had put in that second steady bearing?) It was no longer unbalanced by
weight, but instead was magneticly unbalanced. I'll have to replace the
steel weight with a copper one.
Another disappointment when everything seems Soo close to
working great, for so many months! (I'm still astonished that I
couldn't simply buy a small piece of pure alume plate - not even 1/4
inch, let alone 1/2 inch. Then I got the electric furnace and some
copper pennies, but casting a copper rotor also proved trickier than
expected and cost still more time.) And going under the truck
disassembling and assembling every time I try something new holds me
back - it's hard on my back and shoulders. Well, at least it's in a
cement floor garage and not outside on gravel or lawn! And it's getting
easier with the recent progress on the housing, which I can now leave
in place and just pull out the mechanism. (More
details)
Fires: Another Reason for Metal Walls on the Cabin
The largest forest
fires ever in BC and the Canadian Arctic as well as in Siberia blazed
away to the east, west and north of me, and IIRC there had been a
couple on Vancouver Island too. I have been content to just say "I'm
sure it won't happen here." Then (youtube) I watched a couple of
climate scientists being interviewed (one was Paul Beckwith from
Ontario) and talking about events that gave premonitions of how bad
things might get in the next couple of decades. But it was the fire in
Lahaina on Maui that I suddenly thought of.
The cabin I'm building has metal siding and a metal roof.
It's in a field. Some moderately nearby small trees and brush can be
cleared. I
finished the third outside wall on the 24th, using up all but one full
piece and some scraps of the siding. (I'd have had three pieces left if
I hadn't made a couple of wrong cuts. I'd have had enough for all four
sides if I hadn't used some for the carport roof. It seemed like there
was so much when I bought it!)
I'm ordering an insulated metal roll-up garage door for
part of the last side. Now I'm determined to do the last wall also in
metal or other fireproof material, and to cover up all the open wood
with flashing or something. This summer we've been less dry than the
rest of BC, but If there is a bad forest fire here, it just might be
one of a few things still standing for miles around. Such are the times
that this should seem worth pondering! August's cabin
construction in pictures.
The next day I looked at my washing machine and (at long
last) put an alume anode rod into my hot water tank. The previous tank
had had no rod and started leaking about 5 years after I bought the
house. The previous owner had suggested I bring a new tank when I moved
here and I did. But the well water, with a zinc anode rod, stank to
high...
wutever... so I had taken it out. I had the same problem with the small
'solar' tank I had put under the kitchen sink a couple of years
previously, but I didn't understand the problem and ended up taking it
out entirely, switching to a 3KW "on demand" unit... which provides
just a trickle of hot water for dishes. Finally I thought to try an
alume rod, and however much or little protection it gives, I don't
smell anything. (Oops, spoke too soon. I can smell it when I start a
shower. But it's not half as bad as with the zinc. I think I'll keep
it.)
Masset Airport Solar Power: Winter Sun Angles
I had asked to be involved in this megawatt solar project
with batteries to even out the power. Mostly I thought the angles
didn't look right in the presentation at the energy conference last
March. It should be noted that when any one cell on a solar panel is
shaded, the whole panel puts out nothing. If sets of panels are
connected in series, one shaded cell anywhere kills the whole string.
Somehow my emails after the first one went unanswered, and the panels
were installed over the summer.
Finally I went to the airport and saw it, through the
fence from the far end of the field. As I had feared, the rows looked
to me to be too close together for the winter sun, which at 54°
north latitude is quite low, 12.5°. They may or may not have been
spaced far enough apart for noon at the winter solstice, but surely not
for any other time of day when the sun is even lower. So they will
produce very little in winter, even less than the short days should
allow. And there was lots of room to space them out more - the empty
grass field runs the whole length of the runway. (The panels were also
only tilted about 30° to the south by my estimate, which is less
than optimum even in summer. Latitude angle is 54° and probably
35°-45° should have been more optimum. That's a more minor
point. A 30° angle cuts the winter output to 70% of full potential,
where 40° gives 79%. And in a cloudy winter sky if there's much to
be had at all, flatter sometimes seems better.)
Wind Power on Cargo Ships
The last time I remember hearing about putting sails on
cargo ships to save fuel and decrease the pollution was quite a few
years ago if not a decade or two back. They were a solid wing shape,
three or four on the vessel. It was said that they saved considerable
fuel and made the ship more stable and comfortable in heavy seas,
damping out the back and forth rocking motion. Somehow that didn't seem
to catch on, since I haven't seen one with sails since.
Now someone has brought back the concept but added some
moving parts to more optimally shape the sails for the wind conditions.
These ones are taller, I think, and there are just two. We see they are
mounted off to the side, presumably to be out of the way for loading
and unloading, which cargo ships spend a lot of time doing.
Ship Fire: Wasn't a Lithium Ion battery?
Concerning last month's news item, the fire on the Freemantle
Highway car carrying ship probably wasn't caused by a
lithium ion battery of an electric car. Evidently someone suggested it
and news outlets jumped on it as "fact". They don't know (yet?) where
it started, and cars below deck 5 were undamaged, including many EV's.
The cars were neither in use nor being charged. Batteries
at rest of any type are generally pretty safe. Evidently the one case
where an electric car's lithium ion battery is definitely known to have
caused a ship fire was a home converted EV being charged on board on a
ferry. And the exploding Chinese e-bikes seem to go off mostly when
being charged. (They probably have really cheap, primitive chargers.
Car makers go all out to make the charging as safe as possible,
monitoring each cell, slowing the charge for the last 10 or 20 percent
and definitely cutting it right off when full.)
Lithium iron phosphate batteries still seem a lot safer
than lithium ion or lithium polymer.
In
Passing
(Miscellaneous topics, editorial comments & opinionated rants)
The
Cause
of Tinnitus: AC Power Fields
"Microwaves" (actually centimetric wavelengths, not
micrometric. gigahertz frequencies.) need a very fine screen in the
oven door's window to keep them inside. (Let's not get into
radiation harm from cell phones at similar frequencies here!) And they
pretty much travel in a straight line: if there's anything to block
microwaves between their source and you, you won't get any. Let's see,
wavelength at 60 CPS is (speed of light)/60 = 286282 miles/sec /
60 = 4771 miles or about 7.6 megameters. For such long wavelengths,
the 2 inch mesh chicken wire, or stucco wire, should be plenty fine.
The other thing such low frequencies do is bend well around corners.
(There is much said about this in stereo speaker cabinet making and
design.)
That means one can't just have a sheet of metal somewhere between the
source and yourself: the field will just bend around behind it.
Since my one and only lengthy experience away from AC
power and
power lines in about 1991 would indicate that it takes days for my
tinnitus to fade to "insignificant" or "gone", I don't think
I'll eliminate it except by spending most of my time outside of or
shielded from power
line EM fields.
So that's the "bubble" of chicken wire mesh at the head of
my bed, the metal lined cabin when it's done (with no unshielded 120
VAC inside), and an electricly shorting helmet most other times. All
preferably grounded to really short out the field. I will probably
never be able to maintain "no tinnitus" as long as the power grid is
on, but
I can probably go with this regimen enough days to prove it does go
away or at least fade if at least one's head stays out of power line
fields for so long. [By early September I had some great evidence!]
The tinfoil "helmet" has its problems. It's fragile, and
it blows off my head in a light breeze or even if I walk too fast. And
there's nothing over the face. I ordered a motorcycle helmet. My plan
is to line this with alume, either tinfoil inside or alume tape on the
outside. Then it should have an electricly conductive face shield. The
plastic won't do a thing. I suppose this could be wire mesh, but I'm
looking for conductive, transparent coatings or films (CTF's), probably
the polymer coatings rather than indium-tin oxide metal types. A
spray-on bottle would be wonderful! (Can anything be added to
transparent polyurethane spray paint?) Or perhaps I could make a very
thin coating of silver, made with silver nitrate as with coating a
telescope mirror?
[21st] Never being rid of ringing in my ears, I wasn't totally sure the
chicken wire mesh 'bubble' was helping. Even in the mornings before
arising it was sometimes still pretty bad. But on this morning I woke
up with the loudest tinnitus tone blasting strongly again. It seemed
like it was no help at all! I opened my eyes, and found that after
getting up in the night, I had gone back to sleep with my head outside
the 'bubble'. So if it wasn't making it better, not using it certainly
seemed to be making it worse!
[24th] In bed in the morning when all is quiet, and under the metal
mesh, I lately have been hearing a mid range tone, which vanishes when
I get up. I've heard it before when I lived in Victoria. This time I
fetched my flute, and figured it was between C4 and C#4, perhaps closer
to C. When I was up and looked these up, about 523 and 554 Hz. FWIW 540
is the 9th harmonic of 60 Hz.
Listening for the very low tone that I usually only hear
when I'm
overtired, I could hear it, very faintly. But checking with my
flute and looking up the frequency, it seemed to be maybe G1, which is
52 Hz rather than 60 Hz. But transposing down three octaves is rather
sketchy. Pretty hazy
observations! [Later tries said 60 Hz.]
I found an on-line signal generator. Yikes! My hearing is
getting really bad above around 6000 Hz. In high school it was already
down to 15000 Hz when others could hear to 20000. (Must have been the
loud shotgun from when my dad would take me duck or pheasant hunting
when I was four & five years old.) Well, hearing loss is certainly
a major factor in tinnitus too. Even with electric power, apparently
there's usually no tinnitus without hearing loss. My tinnitus started
intermittently when I
was maybe six or seven.
It is frustrating that any effects one way or another are
SO slow to discern, and that it's not possible to take many definitive,
objective measurements.
I finished putting the metal siding on my 3rd cabin wall.
Now the only wall still open is the west wall facing away from the
power lines. Inside it must be pretty quiet electricly by now. I
thought or imagined I could feel some relief sitting in there reading a
book.
Then in the evening Perry with increasing tinnitus phoned,
raving about Nicorette gum. (His was acquired just a couple of years
ago after rifle shooting without ear protection.) His girlfriend had
run across something on line about nicotine and the gum for tinnitus.
He had been chewing it for just over a week, and said it had greatly
reduced his tinnitus.
He said you only use it for two weeks, once in the morning and once in
the evening, and then stop. It sounded like it
was worth a try! (I got him to pick me up a package at the pharmacy,
since it would be almost a week until I'd be in town when it was open.)
[27th] I started the gum, one piece in the mornings and one in the
evenings as he had said. I didn't notice any "upset stomach" that was
said to be a possible side effect. My brother warned me about nicotine
addiction. I figure it won't happen - I'm not smoking it, and I'm not
about to start smoking at my age! If there are withdrawal symptoms
after the two weeks I'll have to deal with them. I continued using the
chicken wire bubble in bed. Usually I would put on the pizza pan helmet
after I got up and suddenly would notice the high frequency tone hit my
ears, but it still wasn't possible to wear it much of the day when I
was active.
[Sept. 1st] There was a clue I hadn't thought about before: if I stay
up way too late at night, I start hearing - and in fact feeling - a low
vibration throbbing with my heartbeat, inside my head somewhere near my
right ear. It then lingers until I get
to sleep. It wasn't happening at any other time. It wasn't happening at
similar times of night if I woke up from sleep that I was aware of. I
thought it was just internal noise since it seemed to only happen when
I was overtired, telling me I should get to bed.
It happened again in August. I started wondering why my
body should ever have a strange low vibration. What was it related to?
I suddenly suspected that it was always there, usually unfelt and
unheard, just under the threshold of awareness - and in fact that it
was the continuous audio irritant coming
from the power lines, that somehow reacts to make the ears ring at high
frequencies, similar to after hearing loud music or power tools for a
while. But because it's always
there, it probably doesn't have to be very loud and the ringing never
ends: tinnitus.
Since sleeping with the steel mesh bubble at night and
often wearing the pizza pan "helmet" in the day, I sometimes also
started hearing this tone, more faintly, when I woke up in the morning
and until I got up. (And could hearing it be related to the gum?) It
was easily
drowned out by anything including the first exertions in getting up.
On September 1st AM it was quite noticeable in bed, and
after I got up I relaxed in a chair. The vibration/sound reappeared.
The volume
varied even with my heart beat. I tried to hum the frequency and went
to the on-line audio signal generator site I had found. While I felt
unable to judge very closely, when I generated tones to the speakers,
my best guess was 60 cycles per second: that it was indeed the AC power
lines frequency.
Then I walked out into the woods behind my house, around
400 feet from the house and 500 from the power lines by the highway.
That was surely far enough away from any electric power to be pretty
quiet. I sat down on a log and again relaxed for a while until my
heartbeat and breathing were quite at rest. And when there were no cars
going by and all was quiet, I listened. For all the high pitch tinnitus
whistles ever ringing in my head, I couldn't detect the low tone. I
went back to the house and sat in the chair again. Sure enough, the low
vibration/tone came back. So I went back out into the woods and rested
again. No tone, twice!
If I can repeat this technique, it could be an objective,
if faint and variable, technique to determine the presence or absence
of power line hum at a given location, regardless of the extreme
lengths of time it takes the high pitched tones to react to that, to
increase or fade. The fact that I was hearing it in bed says the
chicken wire mesh "bubble" isn't cutting out all the power line noise.
This is understandable since the lower end is wide open, not close
around the neck. (more of a "somewhat open clam shell" than a
"bubble"?) But using it and the metal helmet for some days seemed to
reduce my tinnitus enough to make me more sensitive to other tones,
which had started coming and going and changing. The loudest piercing
tone was much reduced or I probably wouldn't have heard (or noticed)
the others even if they were there. Especially I had never consciously
noticed the 60 Hz in the morning before.
Places I can start checking out for "electricly quiet"
versus "noisy" via this tone:
* Different distances away from the house and power lines: how far away
is "far enough"?
* The cabin with grounded metal roof and walls
* My "pizza tin" helmet, ungrounded or grounded with a wire while I sit
* of course, the helmet has no conductive face cover, so it might give
different results facing toward and away from the power poles.
A question might be "Is the noise coming from the AC lines
acoustic or electromagnetic in nature?" After all, wires in
transformers hum quite audibly, sometimes even loudly, at 60 Hz and
harmonics of that. And as I've found out to my distress, wires
not solidly glued down in motors vibrate until the insulation wears out
and it
fails. Do all the AC power wires everywhere vibrate and hum to some
small extent,
that is only subliminally noticeable?
This seems like an attractive theory, and it may well
explain part of the problem. My brother once complained to the city
that a buzzing streetlight outside his window was making his ears ring.
(They changed the transformer.) But it doesn't explain everything. Why
should my tinnitus gradually get louder driving in the car under the
high voltage power lines? (...any car but more noticeable in a quiet
electric car - I first noticed it in the converted Mazda RX7-EV and
thought it might be the car. But the power electronics of the car is
virtually surrounded by metal under the hood.) With the car windows
closed, outside sounds are largely blocked out. So I'm going with the
theory that it's 60 Hz
electromagnetic interaction coming right through the non-conductive
windows and into the head, and impinges on some part of the the
auditory system, mostly unnoticed, but which reacts to cause the
tinnitus.
[Sept 2nd] I was talking about it to a friend and he said he felt more
than heard a low vibration whenever he went out to his shop, which was
full of 240V power tools and very close to the street power line.
Evidently he hears it much more than my "seldom" and "right side only".
And he said having ears ringing from using noisy power tools was
somehow different from his tinnitus. He also said his tinnitus goes
away when he puts in his hearing aids - Lucky guy? If the AC electric
power field is somehow making something inside the head and the ear
actually vibrate, it's probably not a wonder that it should aggravate
the hearing system, which seems to manifest as tinnitus.
[Sept 3rd] I seemed to be hearing/feeling the throbbing 60 Hz tone more
and more (perhaps because the high pitched tones weren't as loud with
my weeks of dampening experiments?), and it was clearly back on this
late evening. I went out to the cabin where presumably the electrical
noise was dampened and sat down for a bit. But I heard it. I even
disconnected the cord to the solar power grid ties and put it outside,
eliminating even the few feet of 120V wires inside. Was the metal
siding and roof really damping it? Did the field from the 14,400V power
poles just come right around the far side, bend right around and come
in through the open end? (Was all of the siding well grounded? Anodized
alume might not necessarily conduct well between sheets.)
So I took a flashlight and went back in the woods again.
This time I could still hear/feel it there, too! This contradicted my
previous test. But it was still the same electric power frequency. Just
how far did one have to be from the power lines? (I probably can't get
any farther away on or near my property owing to power lines running
down the side street a few hundred feet away.) Or was the low tone just
"still ringing" like the high tinnitus tones?
The power of the electric field must suely be several tens
of decibels weaker in these more favorable locations, but in this day's
listenings I couldn't tell. (No dB meter inside my head!)
The wire mesh
"bubble" around my head on my bed certainly seemed to help, but it
wasn't comfortable or convenient ducking my head into it to get into or
out of bed. I finally removed it, and by morning the highest, piercing
tinnitus tone was again as loud as ever. The motorcycle helmet arrived,
but it seemed too heavy for day-long wear. The alume "rectangular pizza
pan" helmet is very light and except for not having a conductive face
shield and a chin strap to keep it in place when working, is probably
about the best and least annoying thing to wear. The nicorette gum
doesn't seem to have make any difference so far. (I don't think I'm
becoming addicted to the nicotine since I keep forgetting it. I'm two
chewings behind in a week.)
[Sept 8th] There's a natural area some miles long along the highway
with no power lines, a space between the island's "North Grid" and
"South Grid". I stopped there and meditated for a while. I didn't hear
any low hum. Then I stopped at a friend's by the highway with power,
and heard it almost as soon as I stopped the car. I haven't heard it
again sitting in the cabin, but I have in the house.
That may be all I have to say on this until the
field-dampening cabin is completed to the extent that I can spend
living time in it.
Scalp
Mites/Hair
Loss: A Factoid - Exterminating
I watched a video about Demodex mites and treatment from a
bald guy who says he got rid of them too late, but he seemed to have
done much study. He seemed to have his own brand of treatment products,
so perhaps he hadn't run across alcohol. Too simple! It was implicit
with him that the mites were the cause of thinning hair and baldness.
(Sounded like it was just one of his many videos - perhaps he went into
explanations in another video(s)?)
The most important thing I learned was that he said the
mites can live up to 52 hours off the host - apparently an unusually
long time for such a mite, and he spoke of "cross contamination". When
you treat your scalp, at the same time you should change your
pillowcase(s) and any hat, tuque, scarf et cetera you've been wearing,
and not use the same one again for a few days. Also maybe squirt
alcohol on anything you often rest your head on, such as couch
cushions, the back of a couch or easy chair, and your comb or hair
brush and... These are ways that the mites keep coming back so quickly,
and spread from person to person.
Daily shampooing and leaving the shampoo in for the
duration of the shower took too much time and I wasn't getting to it
often enough. My hair was thinning badly - headed for baldness all
along the top by 2020 (at age 65). I bought a bottle of "Rogaine" and
discovered that the makers didn't know how it worked. But it had to be
applied to the thin spot pretty much daily to work. Of course it did -
the mites would come back from all sides in no time! I saw that one of
its ingredients was alcohol, and I suddenly realized that that was what
helped, not their "secret ingredient" - it killed the mites.
So now for 3(?) years I was spraying my hair/scalp weekly
with an atomizer, preferably with 50% diluted (ethyl) rubbing alcohol.
(A vodka scalp rub (40% alcohol) has been used by some - who mostly
don't know why it works.) I recently went to twice a week, since my
hair, while recovering considerably, hasn't come back to full thickness.
But I kept putting on the same tuque even right after
treatment, and I wasn't changing my pillowcase or bed sheets. Maybe
using this new info they'll be much slower coming back, and treating
once a week would be plenty? Or might I dream of eliminating the nasty
mites entirely? My prospects should be good since I live alone and I'm
not doing a lot of partying or travel. Wouldn't it be cool if no one
had them and baldness was a thing of the past?
Hot
Weather
Ahead
Climate scientists project that we are at a point where even if
all "fossil fuel" emissions were drasticly cut today, temperatures
would continue to rise for about two decades.
I think we should start
by cutting most jet aircraft traffic. In addition to the exhaust from
fuel they burn, I'm pretty sure the long-lasting jet trail "atmospheric
blanket" clouds they're generating in the stratosphere are the worst
part of the whole climate change thing. I've detailed the enormous
effects of this in terms of the disruptions of global wind circulations
plus severe droughts and their corollary, "rivers from the sky"
precipitation before. Personally, I think the temperatures would stop
rising sooner than in 20 years if those clouds were eliminated.
Until now, cold has been thought to have been more of a
people killer than heat. But apparently heat deaths are greatly
under-reported. People suffering from heat often have heart attacks and
other
conditions that are the listed cause of death - but they wouldn't have
died except for being too heat stressed. Now the record
heat waves of recent years are increasing and lasting longer.
Climate scientists are pointing out that when it's hot enough for long
enough, it's no longer just discomfort, it's "cool off or die". All
that's needed are for
overloaded, poorly maintained electrical grids to fail in heat waves
for people to
start dying en masse, especially in the "heat islands" that are cities.
This is just one more reason the global population is expected to
shrink dramaticly in the coming decades.
On a related side note, in the killer cold in Texas
in Feb. 2022, when the power grid had to be cut making "rolling
blackouts" and people froze, many were griping about how useless solar
and
wind were and that the money would be better spent on plants that use
fuels we're running out of. But in this summer's killer heat, the grid
was stable even
with the extreme cooling loads because 25% of the power was coming from
solar panels. Otherwise it might well have failed again. (And I've been
thinking why Wouldn't you power your air conditioner with
solar? Unlike with heating, when you need cooling most is just when the
most power is available.) Thumbs up for solar power in Texas!
So far air conditioning is virtually needless on Haida
Gwaii. We've had a nice summer with 3(?) weeks where people complain
it's too hot to work outside because the sun is shining and it's
26°. (79°F) Aw!
SUDDEN
SEA
LEVEL RISE (it's coming!)
Last month I showed a graph of the amazing reduction of
the extent of Antarctic sea ice *this* year, quite different to any
previous year recorded. I have heard of projections (from Spirit beings
- "celestials" - angels and other groups) for rapid, almost sudden sea
level rise owing to melting ice there and on Greenland. Heretofore I
couldn't imagine the mechanism for such a rapid pace.
But we seem to have hit a tipping point. Here is a video
that gives a simple reason: "atmospheric rivers" of snow falling on
Greenland (and probably Antarctica - if not this year, then coming up)
have turned to rain, rapidly dissolving glaciers. These would be the
same sort of "atmospheric rivers" so noted in recent years for
delivering, eg, a month's worth of rain in a day and washing away
homes, cars and livestock - pretty much anywhere in the world. (Around
mid August large areas around Beijing/Peking China were flooded into
second story depths. That was not the only serious flooding during the
same period while other regions (Canada, Siberia, Greece, Maui) had
monstrous forest fires owing largely to drought.)
I have explained before how the persisting jet trail
clouds (intentional or not) would blanket the atmosphere up into the
stratosphere where clouds are usually rare and thin, which hence make
it warmer up to those altitudes, disrupting the global winds:
[TE News #109, #110, #129]
The warmer air can then hold heavy moisture up to (eg)
30,000 feet instead of 3000, which would explain why rain doesn't fall
when and where it's expected causing droughts, and when it does, there
can be such heavy precipitation as to cause devastating flooding, or
record breaking hailstones or blizzards.
The temperature is a tipping point. With that sort of
sudden, intense rain falling on the glaciers instead of snow, well they
may melt with cataclismic speed, suddenly making clear the cause for
the projections.
"insane flooding rain to Greenland - rapids
in an atmospheric river"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tua4p9ns2JY&ab_channel=JasonBox
After watching this video, Youtube came up with a bunch
more suggestions: "Antarctica's Tipping Point, The Science of Ice
Collapse", "Record Ice Loss" in Greenland, "Emerging Tipping Points in
Antarctica"...
As one can see from my past newsletter links, I disagree
with some of the author's conclusions. In particular Box blames Arctic
warming on greenhouse gasses, then says this Arctic warming is causing
a slower and wavier jet stream. I say the reduction of the impetus that
drives the global winds - the decrease of the temperature drop with
altitude in the troposphere owing to the blanketing by the persisting
jet trail clouds - explains the slower, higher altitude and more
chaotic jet streams, which in turn often allow warm temperate zone
winds to blow into the Arctic, causing Arctic warming. (And then in
compensation cold Arctic winds blow down into the temperate zones,
notably during winter, and we get extreme cold and snow as far south as
the tropic of Cancer - eg, Texas or Arabia.
Scattered
Thots
* On longevity: Do you think of physical exercise time as "lost time"
from your life? A 100 year old doctor said "Every hour you exercise
adds three hours to your life." So instead that would be two hours
"gained time". Potentially.
* We're all equal in spirit and we should all treat others as we would
have them treat us, but we are all different in many ways. Here Thomas
Sowell (most always worth hearing) goes into what many may think of as
"racial stereotyping" in choices of occupations.
Thomas Sowell Exposes Economic Truths You've Never Known
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyHLNHTMjKU&ab_channel=ThomasSowellTV
* I mentioned a couple of months go that the very low birth rate among
white people most everywhere since the introduction of the birth
control pill in the 1960s and more especially for the last 30 years,
combined with massive influxes of other peoples, has led to us dropping
swiftly to near and below 50% of the population and becoming a
minority, in most places globally. A great percentage of white people
are now
too old to have kids and as we die off whites in the next generation
will be well
below 50% of the population. I think we are presently disappearing as
swiftly as the North American
red man tragicly did between 1550 and 1650 with an estimated 90%
population drop.
I also note that China and Japan have had similar low
birth rates for about the same period, perhaps even more so. The
difference is that they aren't having an influx of immigrants like the
West. However much their populations drop before stabilizing, they will
largely retain their racial identities and continuity.
A presenter said reasons for low immigration to China even
with dropping populations were fourfold. First, the dictatorial
government. The present leader seems to be as authoritarian as Mao
Zedong, with highly deleterious effects on the previously booming
economy and
society. Why would people go somewhere where they have less freedom
instead of more? There were a couple more reasons that I don't remember
(increasing unemployment? more benefits in Western countries?), then
finally that the racial
prejudices of the Han Chinese made foreigners quite unwelcome. He
talked of "deflation" and "economic collapse" in China from the
dropping population, and saw it as a
terrible problem, whereas the West has "circumvented" the "problem"
with massive immigration. I think that in a world of eight billion
people that can probably sustain three, any drop in population now - or
any reduction in the rate of population growth - is that many fewer
people who will die tragicly in various ways as we smash into the end
of our
depleting resources and ransacking of the ecology. And fewer people
should need smaller economies, so
I don't see dropping population as an economic problem.
Who does? Our financial pyramid scheme institutions make
bankers rich by continual expansion and growth, and to them a dropping
population - or even stability - is a disaster. The financial system
can't shrink without drastic consequences. So somehow we have
been taught to think of "neverending economic growth" as a good, even
vital thing. By other
metrics, population and economic stability is a blessing and 60-70
years overdue.
* Surely the white races have contributed much to the modern world even
with all its faults and all our faults, and the rapid disappearance of
nearly all predominantly white societies from the planet over a couple
of generations
seems to me to be a biologic and cultural misfortune. For that I
am being labeled by some as a "white supremacist". I am for the social
and educational improvement and enlightenment of all, and for the
genetic and epigenetic improvement of every race as we learn more about
genetics, by means of family planning - by the education and free will
decisions of individuals and couples themselves, with the promotion of
favorable human genetic traits as they become apparent. With good birth
control now available, most children will be wanted children, not
"accidents". General genetic improvement and weeding out of defective
and inferior genes has been
done for most every domestic species, but not for us humans ourselves.
Societies
are a product of the people who compose them, and superior peoples will
make a superior civilization. "Homo Sapiens" must evolve into "Homo
Spiritus" as well, not gradually degrade itself.
I will content myself with the thought that "All things
work
together for the progress of men and angels." and that in the
course of Christ Michael's thousand year "Correcting Time" plan just
getting underway, everything will work out well and that the world of
his mortal sojourn will have a glorious future.
* In the fire in Lahaina on Maui, authorities told people to evacuate
by car, then the police
blockaded the only highway out of town! It seems up to 2000 people
including whole families
perished, some sitting in their cars waiting for the line to start
moving, while others spent up to 8 hours dog paddling in the ocean to
escape the inferno. There were no sirens, warnings or alarms, and many
didn't know the town was on fire around them. Other oddities included
water being turned off, hampering firefighters. Various excuses were
made, but rumor has it that it was not mismanagement but a
ruthless land grab by those in power. President Biden said
"No comment." on the fires, and apparently fell asleep when facing
residents. Residents were offered 700$ each (!?!) for compensation
while
numerous FEMA personnel were flown in and put up in 1000-2500 $/night
hotels. Last I heard no one was being allowed back in (even to unburned
homes) and news crews and drones were being forbidden access and chased
off. The homes
were valued at nearly a million dollars each on average, and if the
houses were gone and the legitimate land owners were nowhere to be
found...??? Are these views real, or was it just a string of tragicly
botched, negatively miscoordinated responses to an accidental fire?
ESD
(Eccentric Silliness Department)
* SNAP DNA STOP - just some backward kitchenware.
"in depth reports" for
each project are below. I hope they may be useful to anyone who wants
to get into a similar project, to glean ideas for how something
might be done, as well as things that might have been tried, or just
thought
of and not tried... and even of how not to do something - why
it didn't
work or proved impractical. Sometimes they set out inventive thoughts
almost as they occur - and are the actual organization and elaboration
in writing of those thoughts. They are thus partly a diary and are not
extensively proof-read for literary perfection, consistency,
completeness and elimination of duplications before
publication. I hope they may add to the body of wisdom for other
researchers and developers to help them find more productive paths and
avoid potential pitfalls and dead ends.
Electric
Transport
Magnetic Variable Torque Converter
[21st] I finally stepped aside from the cabin walls for a bit and went
to balance my lop-sided cast copper rotor, by bolting a weight onto it.
I was thinking of a jig to get it to roll, but discovered that
(lengthwise) it balanced perfectly on the edge of a table sitting on
the steady bearing. Of course the bearing made it turn easily to where
the lightest side was up. I drilled a hole there. And I put steel
weights on top of the rim to estimate how much was needed. When heavy
enough they caused the rotor to turn until they fell off.
The back face
of the copper could be rough as can be, but
I decided the magnet-facing face just wouldn't do. I started grinding
off the high spots and areas. After some dubious attempts using a ruler
to figure out where these were, I found a brake disk of the same
diameter on which I could set the rotor and (with a flashlight) see the
places holding the rest up. Pushing down in different places around the
edge I could find the highest spots where it 'hinged' and tipped up.
Most of my lengthy grinding session was concentrated on the same two
areas, and finally most of it - at least at the outer edge - was within
1/16th of on inch or so of the surface of the brake disk. It is by no
means perfect, but more copper will be notably closer to the magnet
rotor than it was. Hopefully the slip will be under 78 RPM.
Of course the
grinding changed not only the amount of
imbalance but the position. But I had drilled and tapped just one hole
so far. I
found that if I simply turned the weight diagonal a bit it could still
balance. And there was a 7/16" threaded hole in the inner end. If I
screwed a small bolt into it the weight just about balanced the rotor.
(Not much left to do, but I went
back to working on the cabin
while the weather was nice.)
[30th] I found the best
balanced twist of the weight, then drilled and tapped a
hole through the rotor and weight at its other end. It seemed quite
close. The rotor would stop at any point, tho it had a very
slight tendency to drift more toward a particular position if given
slight momentum toward it. Considering the big difference any tiny
change in weight made, I was quite pleased.
I used flathead screws - they
couldn't stick out on the magnet face.
[Sept. 5th] I noticed that the steel
weight caused a certain amount of magnetic cogging. That might be
interesting if the truck got up to speed and torque where the rotors
would lock together. But it probably wasn't enough cogging force to be
very effective. Two or three or four such steel blocks spaced around
the copper rotor in line with the magnets might be reasonably effective.
I installed it and started it up. There was still a lot of
vibration - nothing like before, but still too much to consider driving
the truck out of the garage. I got a video camera and clamped it on to
see what the mechanism was doing, then drove ahead a bit and then back.
The planetary gear and rear drive shaft coming from it were shimmying
around as they turned, even very slowly, or even as the planetary
turned with the truck stopped. I watched the video several times and
finally realized that it must be the steel balancing weight. That side
of the copper rotor was pulling the magnet rotor toward itself, and
there was enough play in the gear body that it 'bent' toward the copper
rotor on one side.
So it went from mass imbalance to magnetic imbalance. I'll
have to replace the steel weight with a copper one. The delays and
setbacks on this seemingly simple project - improving the magnetic
coupling of the torque converter - have been fierce!
Other
"Green"
& Electric Equipment
Projects
Cabin
Construction
Wait, what? Evidently I didn't write any detailed text for most of
August's construction work, until the 28th when I finished the last
footing. But the photos tell the tale...
[25th, 27th, 28th] I dug a trench for the final wall footing, lost a
day, set up concrete forms and put rocks inside on the bottom to take
up space during an afternoon, and then spent a day mixing and casting
cement. Somehow the forms ended up a little wider and deeper than the
last set and in spite of thinking I had extra sand, I used every bit of
it, and had just a small block of cement left over from the last half
pail. I also used the rest of the bag of cement and for the last couple
of loads I used some half powder, half chunks - the remnants of a bag
sitting under the travel trailer for two years since I did the south
wall. (Hmm... the resulting footing seemed rather crumbly!)
Finally it was done, but I was left hoping that I hadn't done
more injury to my again painful "tennis" elbow with all that shoveling,
toting and lifting of heavy pails of sand and just generally a long day
of heavy work. I haven't dared try to split firewood this whole summer.
I cut up and split a couple of alder trees in April before the injury
and later bought some more already split. I hope that's enough wood for
the
winter. (It was finally getting - somewhat - better going into
September.)
Foto sequence for the month's cabin work:
First a neighbor towed the Cougar
travel
trailer into a nice spot I had prepared [4th]
...leaving the cabin vacant for
the first time
ever!
I had framed wall section #6 on the 2nd.
I got the plywood up [11th]
(Corners of all the sheets got water damage and mold when stored under
the sheet metal wall siding
in a pile. A piece of metal moved and left a rain gap I didn't notice.
I'm using them whole anyway.)
...and quickly covered it with
tyvec in the
rain [12th]
Then I started putting up the
alume siding.
As this siding was covering my lumber stacks, with each piece
I had to move another stack of lumber into the cabin. [19th]
(And they each needed thorough cleaning and the disintegrating
anti-scratch
tape along the high edge of each piece had to be peeled off bit by bit.)
Growing stack of boards and some
fiberglass
insulation (yuk) for the ceiling
that I bought from someone who was moving, for under 1/2 the new price.
A notable cutting mistake at the
window by the
south door (in 2021) stabbed my eyes every time I looked at it.
But I wanted to be sure there were enough pieces of siding to replace
it,
since it was evident by then that the number of sheets would be very
close.
When it was clear there were
enough pieces, one
day I turned aside from doing the new wall
and fixed the old. But I cut it wrong again! (had panel upside down),
and had to do it twice.
All told I just managed about one
panel a day
average on the new wall [23rd]
I finished the window end on the
24th: three
walls at last done! - with one piece of siding to spare.
(It would have been three to spare if not for three bad cuts.
Ends of two of the bad ones were usable at this window, saving one. And
I would have
had enough for the whole fourth wall if I hadn't used 16x20 feet worth
on the carport roof in fall 2020.)
I poured the last section of
footing [29th] Yay!
(Drain to an old septic tank runs through it.
That corner will be the bathroom.)
The previous section had taken
about 4-1/2
pails of sand.
I filled 6 to be sure and expected leftovers, but this footing
was a bit deeper and wider and took all of it!
I tried to grow corn and squash but they didn't fare well.
The corn never grew well or got very tall. If summer lasted another
month the squash might produce, but it's not warm enough now. The place
I dug up in the lawn for them gets more shade than I thought. I'm going
to let that plot go back to lawn and extend the house south wall garden
where it's sunniest and warmest.
Again here's the tale in pictures.
[Aug. 5th] There was a big
difference between
the sunflowers planted late...
...and those three potted in
early April that
survived the slugs when transplanted.
I also grew some quinoa. I'm not
sure it's
going to ripen.
Caterpillars ate the leaves to skeletons.
[Aug. 11th] The chickens had six
surviving
chicks. Apparently they are all camera shy.
The hens sat on eggs a long time and made no new eggs all summer.
Finally by month's end there are more.
A deer came through my unfastened
chicken wire
at the outer door of the greenhouse.
The grape leaves it ate exposed a little cluster of very small grapes.
(I thought I saw a few flowers on it in the spring!)
By watering daily finally things are starting to flourish. It's taken
me far,
far too long to learn that
gardens, fruit trees and especially greenhouses, need more than
just a couple of waterings a week!
It also ate all but 8 live leaves
off the cherry
tree I dug out of the rocks in
town and so carefully water 2 or 3 times a day because it has so few
roots.
Now I hope it makes it through the winter, is growing more roots, and
isn't dead except for the couple of branches that still have leaves. I
belatedly
stapled the chicken wire in place over the open door to block the
marauding deers.
[29th] Here again the later
planted sunflowers
don't look like they'll get ripe
and form seeds before it's too cold. Few pollinators are coming to the
flowers.
The cardboard is to kill the grass where I'm expanding the garden next
year.
The three earliest sunflowers are
ready to
harvest and I got huge heads of great seeds off them.
Gotta guard them better from the slugs next year!
This later one is shooting for
the moon and is
now [Sept. 8th] 9 feet tall. And finally the
flower is opening, probably much too late.
[31st] South side of main garden
looking West.
There's some good produce but it's obvious I planted all
the little seeds and seedlings much too close together.
And looking East. Behind the peas
(which didn't
do well - a deer got in one night and ate many
young plants) I've dug up around 15 Kg of beautiful red potatos. Mostly
I transplanted whatever
potatos I found growing as I prepared the beds and I was surprised by
all these like ones. IIRC
somebody gave me a bag of sprouting potatos this spring. I'll have to
give them a bag of the results!
Onions were small - they did much better in the house south wall
garden, and the carrots were
very small because of being planted late. Some beans are flowering or
have small beans in
September - again they were planted rather late. But the weather is
crappy earlier and it took
that long to get all the beds ready and plant them all. Hopefully next
spring will be easier.
Electricity
Storage
(No Reports)
Electricity
Generation
My Solar Power System
The Usual Daily/Monthly/Yearly Log of Solar
Power Generated [and grid power consumed]
(All times are in PST: clock 48 minutes ahead of local sun time, not
PDT which
is an hour and 48 minutes ahead. (DC) battery system power output
readings are reset to zero
daily (often just for LED lights, occasionally used with other loads:
Chevy Sprint electric car, inverters in power outages or other 36V
loads), while the
grid tied readings are cumulative.)
Daily Figures
Notes: House Main
meter (6 digits) accumulates. DC meter now
accumulates until [before] it loses precision (9.999 WH => 0010
KWH), then is
reset. House East and Cabin meters (4
digits) are reset to 0 when they get near 99.99 (which goes to "100.0")
- owing to loss of second decimal precision.
Km = Nissan Leaf electric car drove distance, then car was charged.
New Order of Daily Solar Readings (Beginning May 2022):
Date House, House, House, Cabin => Total KWH Solar [Notable
power
Uses (EV); Grid power meter@time] Sky/weather
Main
DC East Cabin
July
31th 367.85, 3.09, 91.07, 25.89 => 8.43 [8709@20:30] More
rain. Not unusual!
August
1st 374.10, 3.15, 95.14, 29.85 => 14.34 [8717@23:00]
2d 384.29, 3.23, 7.33, 36.12 => 23.87
[8721@20:00] Dug trench & put in forms for 2nd last section of
concrete on cabin. Did in my elbow.
3rd 396.19, 3.26, 15.42, 43.32 => 27.22 [55Km; 8731@21:00] Sunny
Day! (light jet trails)
4th 405.61, 3.30, 21.70, 49.14 => 21.56 [8736@20:30]
5th 411.52, 3.33, 25.74, 52.91 => 13.75 [100Km; 8756@21:00; 50Km]
6th 420.22, 3.36, 32.22, 57.93 => 20.23 [45Km; 8769@21:00]
Put
plywood on next section of cabin wall. Now as long as it doesn't rain
until I've put the plastic on tomorrow...
7th 422.40, 3.39, 33.58, 59.10 => 4.76 [8776@20:30]
Rain, wind, rain & wind; working on ladders. (bletch!)
8th 426.58, 3.42, 36.61, 61.62 => 9.76 [55Km; 8791@20:30]
More drizzle & cloud. No wind.
9th 430.99, 3.49, 39.64, 64.42 => 10.31 [8798@20:30] Bit of drizzle
but mostly just cloud.
10th 435.66, 3.68, 42.94, 67.58 => 11.32 [8804@21:00] Poured next
(2nd last) section of footing on the cabin. (Then decided to put a
roll-up garage door there.)
11th 441.58, 3.72, 47.39, 71.52 => 14.35 [8811@20:00]
12th 447.14, 3.76, 51.51, 74.80 => 13.00 [55Km; dryer; 8828@21:30]
13rd 450.96, 3.81, 54.02, 77.19 => 8.77 [45Km;
8842@20:30]
14th 459.75, 3.88, 60.16, 82.36 => 20.17 [8847@20:30] Quite a bit of
sun!
15th 469.59, 3.95, 67.01, 87.76 => 20.16 [8854@20:30] again fairly
sunny. Many jet trails by eve.
16th 477.02, 4.04, 72.58, 92.13 => 17.46 [55Km; 8872@21:00; 55Km]
17th 481.72, 4.08, 75.95, 95.22 => 11.20 [85Km; 8882@20:00]
18th ?, 4.16,
?, 3.35 => 13.15(est) [?] Oops
19th 497.21, 4.16*,86.90, 9.07 => 22.44(est) [55Km;
8911@20:00; 50Km] Sunny until eve. 35.59KWH/2 days; pro rated
3.35/9.07=13.15; 22.44
20th 504.83, 4.29, 92.45, 13.87 => 18.10 [35Km; 8924@21:00] Bit of
clouds & light rain, then sunny.
21th 514.76, 4.36, 99.11, 19.41 => 22.20 [8931@20:30] Sunny. At
least 26°C!
22th 525.04, 4.40, 7.25, 25.76 => 23.94 [8936@21:00]
Some thin jet trails, then sunny again! (Not as warm: 21?)
23th 533.01, 4.43, 13.33, 30.64 => 18.96 [55Km; 8946@20:30]
24th 542.66, 4.46, 20.33, 36.36 => 22.40 [8951@20:30] Glorious sunny
days! Finished wall siding.
25th 552.72, 4.46*,27.50,42.20 => 23.07 [8955@20:00]
*Sprint car with the solar charged battery is out of the garage.
26th 562.70, 4.46*,34.30,47.84 => 22.42 [55Km; 8967@20:30; 50Km]
27th 569.67, 4.48*,39.11,52.12 => 16.06 [35Km; 8981@20:00] Foggy
much of the day
28th 577.46, 4.71, 44.73, 56.69 => 18.21 [8986@20:30] Sunny &
cloudy periods.
29th 580.68, 4.76, 47.13, 58.67 => 7.65 [55Km; 9002@20:00]
Cloudy. Poured LAST footing for cabin!
30th 583.31, 4.79, 48.82, 60.24 => 5.92 [9008@19:30]
Overcast earlier, Misty rain rest of day
31st 591.46, 4.87, 55.13, 65.07 => 19.37 [9014@20:00] Mostly sunny,
warm. (Cool when not sunny)
September
1st 596.26, 4.94, 58.85, 68.05 => 11.57 [140Km; 9038@20:00]
2d 601.67, 4.97, 62.87, 71.32 => 12.73 [55Km; 9052@20:00] A
few sunny periods
3rd 606.44, 5.04, 66.61, 74.38 => 11.64 [35Km; 9060@19:00]
4th 608.96, 5.06, 68.24, 76.01 => 5.80 [9068@20:00]
Clouds, bit o' rain late PM
5th 614.57, 5.15, 72.16, 78.80 => 12.41 [9078@19:30] Cabin (solar)
was unplugged a couple of hours when I mowed the lawn. (Not hit cord!)
6th 618.69, 5.20, 75.05, 81.50 => 9.76 [55Km; 9095@20:00]
7th 623.34, 5.25, 78.41, 84.57 => 11.13 [9103@20:00] Finished 2nd
last wall plywood. Getting dark in there! (Last section gets garage
door.)
Chart of daily KWH from solar panels.
(Compare August 2023
(left) with July 2023 & with August 2022.)
Days of
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Total KWH
for month
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518.00
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563.31 |
505.12
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Km Driven
on Electricity
|
995.5 Km
(ODO 99535)
(130 KWH?) |
1348.1 Km
(180 KWH?) |
1054.5 Km
(~145 KWH?) |
Things Noted - August 2023
* In the warm weather and as the 'low rolling resistance' tires 'wear
in', the Nissan Leaf is using less energy per kilometer.
* Shadows getting longer, days getting shorter.
Monthly Summaries: Solar Generated KWH [& Power used from
grid KWH]
As these tables are getting long, I'm not repeating the log of monthly
reports. The reports for the first four full years (March 2019 to
February 2023) may be found in TE
News
#177,
February
2023.
2023 - (House roof, lawn + DC + Cabin + Carport, Pole) Solar
Jan KWH: 40.57 + 3.06 + 28.31 + 21.85 = 93.79 Solar [grid: 1163; car
(these are very rough estimates): 130]
Feb KWH: 59.19 + 2.70 + 38.10 + 32.47 = 132.46 Solar [grid: 1079; car:
110]
(Four years of solar!)
Mar KWH: 149.49 + 2.72 + 53.85 + 92.08 = 298.14 Solar
[grid: 981; car:
140]
Apr KWH: 176.57 + 2.71 + 121.21 + 108.34 = 408.83 [grid: 676; car: 160]
"Lawn" collectors moved to South
"Wall"
May KWH:266.04 + 2.04 + 194.13 + 180.31 = 642.52 [grid: 500; car: 175]
Jun KWH: 237.55 + 3.70 + 172.56 + 126.31 = 540.12 [grid: 464; car: 190]
July KWH:236.99 + 1.95 + 169.16 + 155.21 = 563.31 [grid: 343; car: 180]
Aug KWH:223.61 + 1.78 + 158.31 + 134.40 = 518.00 [grid: 305; car: 130]
Annual Totals
1. March 2019-Feb. 2020: 2196.15 KWH Solar [used 7927 KWH
from grid]
2. March 2020-Feb. 2021: 2069.82 KWH Solar [used 11294 KWH from grid]
(More electric heat - BR, Trailer & Perry's RV)
3. March 2021-Feb. 2022: 2063.05 KWH Solar [used 10977 KWH from grid]
4a. March 2022-August 2022: in (the best) 6 months, about 2725 KWH
solar - more than in any previous entire year!
4. March2022-Feb. 2023: 3793.37 KWH Solar [used 12038 KWH from grid]
Money Saved or Earned - @ 12¢ [All BC residential elec.
rate] ; @
50¢ [2018 cost of diesel fuel to BC Hydro] ; @ 1$ per KWH [actual
total
cost to BC Hydro
in 2022 according to an employee]:
1. 263.42$ ; 1097.58$ ; 2196.15$
2. 248.38$ ; 1034.91$ ; 2069.82$
3. 247.57$ ; 1031.53$ ; 2063.05$
4. 455.20$ ; 1896.69$ ; 3793.37$
It can be seen that the benefit to the society as a whole
on Haida Gwaii from solar power installations is much greater than the
cost savings to the individual user of electricity, thanks to the heavy
subsidization of our power
owing to the BC government policy of having the same power rate across
the entire province regardless of the cost of production. And it can be
insurance: With some
extra equipment and a battery, sufficient solar can deliver essential
power in
electrical outages however long. (Feb 28th 2023: And it's probably well
over 1$/KWH by now the way inflation of diesel fuel and other costs is
running.)
http://www.TurquoiseEnergy.com
Haida Gwaii, BC Canada