STANDBY GENERATORS
We are looking to buy a new stick and brick house close to the grand kids and when completed want to equip it with a standby generator... For those with a standby generator what fuel type do you ha...
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Hank MI wrote:CavemanCharlie wrote:
Besides, most of ;but not all; of your electricity is coming from burning fuel. The electric company's must be making money.
Pretty sure they can do it a lot more efficiently than you can using an internal combustion engine.
You may be right. But, I was under the impression that my local electric company generates electricity by using a diesel engine to spin a generator. At one time I know it was by burning coal but, times have changed the big coal piles that were once there are gone, and even the rail road tracks to the site have been removed.
