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Originally Posted by redpoint5
A $200 genset gives you backup in case of grid outage
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Finding one that cheap here is the issue...
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My retirement dream is a house on the river, with micro hydro electricity generation from a spring that feeds into the river.
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Even a repurposed alternator out of a truck might generate enough power for most of the appliances someone would need at home, considering either some that can be directly powered by a 12-volt battery (which in this case would act more like a voltage regulator than as a no-break, unless you were doing some maintenance to the micro grid requiring the generator to be shut off for a while) or in a more conventional household voltage through an inverter.