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Originally Posted by red-beard View Post
Power producetion wheeled to my house is $0.10/kwh. My Generator has an 8 gallon tank, will produce 5kw for 6 hours. @$3.00/gallon, this is $0.80/kwh, just for fuel. If I were to switch that to Natural Gas, the cost would be about 1/3rd, or $0.25-$0.30/kwh.

Buying electricity doesn't sound so bad!
Lister 6kw generator (heavy bastard) uses about .5 gallon/hr diesel fuel. At $3.25/gallon, we're looking at $0.25-.30/kwh. Bump up to 8-10kw, and the cost/kwh goes down a bit.
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