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Subject: Re: [worldcruising] Re: Watermaker
From: Bob Taylor (bobt@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2000 - 12:54:36 EDT
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Hi Lew
I like your analogy but would add this.
I wish I could sail everywhere I go but I can't for one reason or another. I have 110 gal
tanks. If I make water while under way under power and then take advantage of rain and local
availability it changes the equation quite a bit.
Also if solar panels continue to go down in price it will be cheaper to have several of them
for the additional power instead of running the engine.
Also I run the engine periodically to take care of it. That's another chance to make water.
As always it depends on so many things.
Just my thoughts.
Bob sv Adagio
lewhodgett@XXX.XXX wrote:
>
> Tom O'Meara writes:
>
> > Got a decent battery bank and charging system? Save the bucks and
> go with
> > the Village Marine.
> >
> > Got limited amps and no way to replace'em? Spend the extra money
> and get
> >a
> > Spectra.
>
> The low equipment cost, high energy consumption system vs the high
> equipment cost, low energy consumption system debate has been around
> forever.
>
> I submit, the determining factor is usage.
>
> Consider the case of 500 hours of annual usage, and diesel cost of
> $5.00/gallon which includes a maintenance allowance of about
> $2.00/gallon.
>
> If your fuel consumption is 1 gal/hr, that's $2,500.00/yr of added energy
> cost for that glass of R/O water.
>
> There is no question that world energy prices will continue to rise.
>
> Best to consider annual operating costs, especially energy costs, in any
> economic evaluation process.
>
> Lew
>
> S/A: Challenge (Under Construction in the Southland)
>
> There are no problems. just varying degrees of challenging opportunity.
>
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