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Re[2]: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Fri Apr 4 20:20:33 2003
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:19:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: 'nanog list' <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030405004816.GA52409@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 19:48:17 -0500 Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
> So, IMHO, natural gas is good for smaller applications (probably
> under 250Kw), in areas where the gas is stable so you don't have
> to do on site storage. Otherwise Diesel is probably cheaper (both
> in genset cost and fuel cost), and easier to obtain.
this is the gist of what i learned a couple of years back. when i asked
the PE at the vendor (a Cat reseller) about gas vs. diesel, he showed me
that for the size generator we were looking at, diesel was a much better
bet on the economics alone.
richard
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