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RE: Off-grid: How to Calculate the Battery Bank Size for Your Off-grid System or Emergency Power Needs
Hi @jackdub, going a bit 'left-field' here but those camping fridges that run on gas (don't ask me how that works,..... magic probably lol), if you had a bio-gas generator or even making wood-gas in a basic set-up could possibly power those pesky energy hungry fridges?? More labour and vegetative resource intense though I guess.
You can do a simple conversion on natural gas or propane generators to have them run off of biogas. I remember reading about a pig farmer that would send all the pig droppings to the basement of the pig barn where he had it setup to collect the biogas from it. The biogas ran a generator that powered the whole pig farm and there was enough extra to sell to the grid. It doesn't take much biomaterial or pressure to run a cooking or light burner, but for a generator you would need a lot of biomaterial or just the right kind. Thanks @eggmeister :D
Hi @jackdub, yeah it would be more efficient overall to generate electric for everything rather than splitting the off a portion of the gas produced to power a gas fridge.
Thanks for your reply bud :)
EggMeister