Guys,
I know what you are saying. I have a solar home which will take 7-8 years to break even. Its just that even if I saved 500 a year in maintenance costs, it would still take me 20 years to break even, and that is if my little kubota genset would last as long as my baby beta. I just don't use it (the auxiliary) that much, so it doesn't make any sense to run a electric at this time.
Now in the next 20 years will diesel get so expensive as to make it impossible to run the boat? Even at less than a gal/hr? Maybe. And if so I should have at least partially converted over, so I could at least get it out of the marina. But the bottom line by then is I will have sold her, and a baby beta is a whole lot more marketable than the current electric.
When I go smaller, it will be with oars and a bike motor for an auxiliary...
BTW I agree Eric et al. Electric is sweeter. I really am just fighting the future. And maybe I am wrong.
I hate it when I don't know everything.
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