Electricity consumption front?

Strawberry_Production · Nov 22, 2021

waterproof808 said:
what is the 12 and 30?

12 hours a day for 30 days

thumper60 · Nov 22, 2021

Strawberry_Production said:
Damn!

Am I going wrong in my calculations somewhere?

I plan on harvesting 100 sq feet (6x730watts) every month.

That's two flowering rooms that'll have around 3mw of electricity.

No your in the ball park i burn around 2000kwh with a 3000w room an rest of the house

Meast21 · Mar 15, 2022

Strawberry_Production said:
I thought so too!
But having a sealed room that exhausts cyclically and carbon scrubbers do the job really well!

I've been looking into exhausting the entire grow space through an ozone space as an alternative also

Put garbage cans or plan flowers that smell good by ur outside exhaust.

lusidghost · Mar 15, 2022

I know that this is old, but maybe start up a coal powered electric plant.

Hollatchaboy · Mar 15, 2022

Energy consumption isn't the problem anymore. With smart meters, they could just watch for timed patterns. 18/6, 12/12, or whatever you use.

UpstateRecGrower · Mar 15, 2022

waterproof808 said:
6.6 megawatts a month is considerable....just under 80 megawatts a year...thats enough power for a small town.
Any request to supply that much electricity is going to come with a lot of red tape, permits and inspections from the utility company. They are going to want to see electrical plans that have been signed off on by an electrical engineer, etc.

Honestly, if you are coming on RIU for this type of advice you are no where near ready to take on a project like this. Its actually pretty foolish to even be posting about an illegal project this large on the internet.

It's not enough power for a small town lol. Most homes use 1000kwh a month, so he wants to use the power of 6 average homes, it's actually not that much, I've done it for years..

riuoldmember · Mar 17, 2022

might as well go all out and steal power

HydroKid239 · Mar 17, 2022

Bout a kilowatt

Go go n chill · Apr 2, 2022

Hollatchaboy said:
Energy consumption isn't the problem anymore. With smart meters, they could just watch for timed patterns. 18/6, 12/12, or whatever you use.

That’s exactly correct, and don’t think that the power companies do not have something in place to see this! Funded by your local tyrannical government by way of tax brakes to the utility companies

Zellmet · Apr 2, 2022

riuoldmember said:
might as well go all out and steal power

And suffer absolutely exquisite paranoia when you're high...

riuoldmember · Apr 2, 2022

Zellmet said:
And suffer absolutely exquisite paranoia when you're high...

just get drunk to and that will go away

UpstateRecGrower · Apr 2, 2022

Go go n chill said:
That’s exactly correct, and don’t think that the power companies do not have something in place to see this! Funded by your local tyrannical government by way of tax brakes to the utility companies

Even with smart meters it wouldn’t be probably cause, power companies have better things to do than look at 12/12 light schedules..

Hollatchaboy · Apr 2, 2022

UpstateRecGrower said:
Even with smart meters it wouldn’t be probably cause, power companies have better things to do than look at 12/12 light schedules..

I agree, but it would be a computer that would keep track of patterns and notify a red flag. It wouldn't take much manpower. I still wouldn't sweat it, unless you're drawing a large amount of power. A lot of people home grow veggies.

PJ Diaz · Apr 2, 2022

These days with people charging their electric vehicles at home it's not hard to hit 1000 kwh, and most people will time their vehicle charging so that it starts and ends during the lowest cost per KwH.

MidnightSun72 · Apr 2, 2022

Tesla charging facility

Go go n chill · Apr 2, 2022

Hollatchaboy said:
I agree, but it would be a computer that would keep track of patterns and notify a red flag. It wouldn't take much manpower. I still wouldn't sweat it, unless you're drawing a large amount of power. A lot of people home grow veggies.

Yes it would be a computer program compiling the information. I think people are naive to think that this type of information isn’t categorized. I now put nothing past our local and federal governments. I say this because it has happened where I live to someone that I know. He’s no longer a gun owner or a voter due to the electric company

Go go n chill · Apr 2, 2022

PJ Diaz said:
These days with people charging their electric vehicles at home it's not hard to hit 1000 kwh, and most people will time their vehicle charging so that it starts and ends during the lowest cost per KwH.

We don’t have elevated rates where I live for different times of the day

Milky Weed · Apr 2, 2022

MidnightSun72 said:
Tesla charging facility

With fake cardboard teslas to throw the coppers off.

Maybe get your hands on a nuclear submarines reactor and hide it in the basement?

PJ Diaz · Apr 2, 2022

Go go n chill said:
We don’t have elevated rates where I live for different times of the day

You might if you had an electric vehicle and get the EV rates from the power company. That's what I do, and run my lights during the time I should be charging my vehicle. The power cost during the low periods is like 35% vs the high cost times of day.

Go go n chill · Apr 2, 2022

PJ Diaz said:
You might if you had an electric vehicle and get the EV rates from the power company. That's what I do, and run my lights during the time I should be charging my vehicle. The power cost during the low periods is like 35% vs the high cost times of day.

So you don’t have an E car? Good stuff.

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