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We are a ways from that. But I do know one of the issues now is the wild swings in demand and having to anticipate heating up water in order to spin turbines, or having to waste energy/heat in order to keep this hot even when the demand isn’t there. So if everything is more on an even level throughout all of the day, I’d imagine the overall…
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Let’s say you’re running About a thousand w with everything combined lights, air conditioner, dehumidifier, fans. The national rate for electricity is $0.19 per kilowatt hour. You’re saving about 5 kW hours per night in this scenario. So that’s 150 KW hours times $0.19. $28.50 possibly a bit more than that with taxes and fees.
If you want…
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On nailing down environment and how extreme it can be. I’m in Minnesota, my grow is in a 5ft x 22ft portion of a detached Garage, it is very well insulated. It is currently -10⁰f outside. 2 of my 3 Air conditioners are still needed, the A/C’s exhaust their heat into car part of the garage (poorly insulated) and they keep it 50⁰ warmer than…
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How many people live in the house? You may be running quite an elevated CO2 already.