Year round renewable energy?

[Mortblanc]

All kinds of suppositions going on here.

One is forgetting that the modern alternator has a computer ship inside to control the electrical flow, which might be subject to the EMP or whatever it was that shut down your grid. Suddenly there are no working alternators for you to play with.

Second is that you can not get a water wheel to operate fast enough to flip the alternator into charge mode, even with step down pullys. I was barely able to make one work operating off an lawn mower engine at full throttle. That alternator puts quite a drain on the engine horsepower If you listen closely sometime and wait for it to kick in and start charging. Without going full throttle it would stall out a 3hp gas motor.

But, if you do get one to work it does not need to be operating 24/7. It needs to be charging a battery bank for a couple of hours daily and be shut off the rest of the time. You are the ones hiding, if I remember correctly, eating your food raw so no one can smell it cooking, and all that light/power is going to attract attention.

And I have a 100 amp alternator on my Jeep that has been in service for 18 years and has 175,000 miles on it, which does not count time spent idling at stop signs and in traffic. I do believe I could make it work for a month or two until the power came back on.

Might be better to just leave the battery in the vehicle and power directly off that. The alternator recharges the battery in about 20 minutes and a tank of fuel will last a long time running only 20-30 minutes a day at idle speed.

BP "man" also lived for millions of years without medical care, without balanced diets, blind, filthy and covered with sores. Life expectancy was 35.

So I can only ask???

How long would you now have been dead?

Plug in and live another year!