Blunosr, you don't have to go off grid in order to use alternative power sources. You CAN have your cake and eat it too. There are very few people who are actually off grid. However, I have not forgotten what JDemaris posted here probably five years ago on wind turbines. They are very expensive, they have a finite lifetime, The savings over their lifetimes that they would provide, at the cost of electric power at the time that they were being built, meant that without the federal funding they would not be economically viable, and private money would never be able to build them. So now with electric rates down, they are not capable of returning the money that we taxpayers put into them. We have to develop sources of power to replace fossil fuels, but we can't just throw tax dollars at it. Banks of solar panels on east facing low pitched roofs, covered in snow for months at a time, will never return a homeowners investment. They are a good deal only for the company that puts them up.
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Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
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