Thank you from me also. Sorry, I just got back from my childhood home (now a vacation get away), not much in modern communication there. It does have electric and indoor plumbing. I also cheat, and bring satellite TV.
I will read your post a couple more times. Thanks again from a former coal miner and petroleum engineer, got to look at the new (or is that old) stuff before making decisions.
Two quick stories, in the late 1970's early 80's I drove an underground electric shuttle car hauling coal. Good tech for the application.
Second story, I spent a day on a drilling rig in the 1980's, that used what is now called regenerative braking to lower pipe into the hole. We had no use for the electric that was generated, so we just dumped it through a resistor bank as heat into the mud system. That heated up the mud so much, it was too hot to cool the drill bit. Oh well, that was a long time ago.
