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  1. davidg
    Maybe so. I did a little searching on google maps and found this 35 acre solar farm in Meridian run by Green Mountain and it looks like they have another small one in Wallis. A real rough look at some of the existing farms in Tx are producing roughly 100KW/acre and costs seem to be around $1mm/MW so probably $10mm+ to do the project. Eurohorn hit on the infrastructure part with regard to getting your power into the grid. Most of these solar farms of any size are being built next to a high voltage grid/substation. I think that's probably a crucial part of making it work.
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    In case you ever wondered what it was like to sail one of the last 4 masted baroque freighters running the nitrate trade from Chile, around the Cape Horn into Europe in the '20s
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    Is 100 acres even big enough for a commercial facility? There is one being built east of Corsicana by Enel Green Power that covers almost 3000 acres and is supposed to be 250MW of solar and 80MW of battery storage. They are out there right now in some of the most fertile black land soil around, cutting in power cabling and solar panel mounts. On a kind of related note, Riot Blockchain is building a 400MW bitcoin mining operation in the southern portion of Navarro county that will be online in 2023 and has expansion plans to eventually increase that to 1GW of miners.
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    Don’t know about DFW but we rented vans from PV Rental in Houston for travel to summer camp Buffalo Trails Scout Ranch one year. Logistics to get them to Dallas might be tough but if you are in that much of a bind it might work. Other years to Colorado, Oklahoma and Arkansas we took a bus. Where are y’all going? Camp Alexander?
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    That boat needs more tuna tubes.
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    Pontoon boats suck for towing and unloading/loading. They are awesome if you have a place on the water with boats lifts for the ‘toon and other boats to fish/wake etc.
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    C'mon, it's Czechoslovakia. We zip in, we pick 'em up, we zip right out again. We're not going to Moscow. It's Czechoslovakia. It's like we're going into *Wisconsin*
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    That’s because he was the HMFIC.
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    Was ready for Kate in 1985, am ready for Kate in 2022 and all years in between. HoL is a great album to listen all the way through every 3 or 4 months. The Ninth Wave side is fantastic! Still wish she would release a dvd/blueray/stream of the shows she did a few years back. This is a video she did to project on a backdrop at the beginning of T9W
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    Have you been served for a lawsuit yet?
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    For you guys that like flight tracks, here's a story of what looks to be a joint AF/Navy exercise off the coast of Baja a few days ago that needed a bunch of tanker helping out ... https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/mysterious-exercise-off-baja-brought-nellis-afb-uss-nimitz-aircraft-together?fbclid=IwAR20v2yInXZ60Ml2t14djpmy2ShWza7_VJPzh4FsULSpbV7REBTNE_p_1-I
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    Look at some of the Superfeet insoles. They have some specifically for PF foot pain relief. I don’t have PF but do have very high arches and use their Superfeet green insoles in my hiking shoes and work boots.
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    Ahem
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    Maybe offer him work from home. See how that goes.
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    You can get them slightly used for free in Chicago or so I hear
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    Did he show up with a drawing and lay out the pens with a transit and chain? If not, tell him to step up his game for next time.
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    Too bad he wasnt' on a boat where he could fire up the outboard and get that hand under the hot pee stream.
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    Don’t know if this will embed but never really knew how cold chilled cucumber soup was https://www.instagram.com/reel/CeMM4Dtj-H5/?igshid=NmZiMzY2Mjc=
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    How big of compressor and generator does that take to run?
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    $50 worth of capacitor and time delay relay that is installed in 5 minutes on the starting winding of your AC compressor motor by an electrician for $250. It reduces the starting surge current in the compressor reducing heat in the motor when the unit is starting. Helps out if the unit is short cycling a bunch. For the generator input, Here's the thread post of the type of breaker interlock device I bought that fits my home breaker panel. I bought the interlock, 50A breaker, wire and 50A inlet, and parts to make a crossover generator from my generator. All sitting nicely in a box in my mess of a garage, waiting for the power to go out so I'll get up off my ass and wire it in. I probably have less than $250 in all those parts.
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    Arrowhead Hunting

    davidg replied to CHIEF's topic in Hobbies

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    You might want to rethink the amount of gasoline it will take to run a 12kw generator. A Northern Tool Duromax 12kw surge/9500w continuous burns 8.3 gal in 8 hrs at 50% load -4750w. If you have an outside storage building to put them in, get 6 5 gal cans and rotate out the oldest one every month or so into a vehicle
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    When you finish your mine, be sure to leave some Carhartts or Duluth pants down in the bottom that might be worth something to a future mine explorer.
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    Dudes working a low quality vein of caliche. Gonna mine shit by hand. Everybody’s doing it.

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