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Saturday, September 08, 2007

Power outage your Prius

Yet more hybrid hype
Read whole thing
Power to the People: Run Your House on a Prius - New York Times
Then throw in safety aspect
Rewire your main box, with throw out, or flip out switch to remove your house from the grid.
We have this, along with 3.6KV Honda generator
Key : you have to isolate yourself from the grid when you power up. Otherwise you can send nasty (fatal?) shock to line workers, transformers that step down power for your home,step up power when it backflows.

Not good

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