Small generators are very inefficient.Lumberjack98 wrote:Wow! That is really surprising to me.flintknapper wrote:Depending on several factors (generator size, efficiency, total load, run time, etc..) you can figure on 75-100 dollars a day!
It can get expensive.
I just figured the running my house on electricity cost about $12 / day in August. I guess if you had a gasoline one that would handle a house, and you ran it 24 hours, it would probably use ~ 20 gal. At $3.50 / gal that would be $70 / day.
Large scale gas turbine power plants in combined cycle seldom achieve 60% efficiency. Internal combustion engines in cars do not even approach 50% efficiency.
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