Using a car engine to power a house.
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I was thinking about kettles, and realised at peak power one of the bikes puts out enough power to run 5/6 kettles, so a fair way to powering the house...
Which lead to the thought/question of why not have V8s at the end of the street running a generator providing cheapish power and a nice soundtrack?
Which lead to the thought/question of why not have V8s at the end of the street running a generator providing cheapish power and a nice soundtrack?
CBR JGWRR said:
I was thinking about kettles, and realised at peak power one of the bikes puts out enough power to run 5/6 kettles, so a fair way to powering the house...
Which lead to the thought/question of why not have V8s at the end of the street running a generator providing cheapish power and a nice soundtrack?
Inefficiency mainly.Which lead to the thought/question of why not have V8s at the end of the street running a generator providing cheapish power and a nice soundtrack?
mike88 said:
Really?
Because it would cost a fortune in fuel.
The noise at high revs would be insane 24/7.
The upkeep and repair of hundreds of thousands of V8's wouldnt be cheap.
Not really, just means the local pub loses a customer once a week equivalent...Because it would cost a fortune in fuel.
The noise at high revs would be insane 24/7.
The upkeep and repair of hundreds of thousands of V8's wouldnt be cheap.
Lets say you need 200 bhp ish to power the street. (guess) Using a crate chevrolet LS, that's roughly a nice V8 background burble, and then we need to know how long it takes to use up the petrol...
And you wouldn't need to run it flat out all the time, you could hook it up to a set of batteries to provide the reduced amount of power at night, when the nice V8 burble isn't so good.
How often do they need servicing though? (genuine question)
V8 owners, I need numbers to work out how viable this is...
CBR JGWRR said:
Not really, just means the local pub loses a customer once a week equivalent...
Lets say you need 200 bhp ish to power the street. (guess) Using a crate chevrolet LS, that's roughly a nice V8 background burble, and then we need to know how long it takes to use up the petrol...
And you wouldn't need to run it flat out all the time, you could hook it up to a set of batteries to provide the reduced amount of power at night, when the nice V8 burble isn't so good.
How often do they need servicing though? (genuine question)
V8 owners, I need numbers to work out how viable this is...
I wouldn't have thought you'd need to bother. A car gets serviced, what, once every 12,000 miles on average? If the car isn't moving, the engine doesn't need serviced. Lets say you need 200 bhp ish to power the street. (guess) Using a crate chevrolet LS, that's roughly a nice V8 background burble, and then we need to know how long it takes to use up the petrol...
And you wouldn't need to run it flat out all the time, you could hook it up to a set of batteries to provide the reduced amount of power at night, when the nice V8 burble isn't so good.
How often do they need servicing though? (genuine question)
V8 owners, I need numbers to work out how viable this is...
Papa Hotel said:
I wouldn't have thought you'd need to bother. A car gets serviced, what, once every 12,000 miles on average? If the car isn't moving, the engine doesn't need serviced.
The engine is still being run though, it's sort of why it's serviced...Ok, taking 12000 miles, at say, an average of 30 mph, leaves 400 engine hours (ish), which is 16/17 days of constant running. Given that it might not be running constantly, lets say a service every 3 weeks.
That does seem like a lot of servicing actually...
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