Here's the link to Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (HELCO)

http://www.heco.com/CDA/default/0,1999,TCID=0&LCID=0&CCID=7246&CTYP=ARTC,00.html

Now if the Listeroid charging system that you keep your PV batteries topped off happens to accidently bleed some extra power down the meter's throat "What can a guy do?" 

I can't believe that someone would do any of this without a disconnect system that automatically gets you off the grid the moment it goes down - Hawaii being a third world leads to this kind of problem more than most people can continue to joke about.  Insurance companies really like illegal stuff as it can give them an out.  Remember when we didn't do stuff like this because it was immoral?

Notice Helco doesn't buy back power, but allow you to spin the meter backwards or help slow it down as I is my dream.

Cheers,

WOW!  What a great place to find out stuff.  Thank you very much.  Now that a couple of you have affirmed my hypothesis do any of you know if I can buy this grade alternators at NAPA?  Hey, when you live in the sticks you deal with the folks down at the corner.

=>14  I appreciate the feedback.  I'm setting here enjoying the concern for safety on an open double flywheel hand cranked engine.  Great site.  Thanks very much for your thoughts.

8>  Food for thought.  Will the fuel ignite properly (or at all) from an ooze style introduction to the compression chamber?  How many of these engines have had serious problems with injectors sticking open (atomized introduction) or something like that?  Remember that the coolant will be at 0 PSID rather than pressurized to raise the boiling point or does the pressure help offset the compression working against the head gasket?

1)  I wonder why they stopped using it in the two strokes?

2)  I don't understand the concern about the "coolant" (real or ) getting into where it shouldn't be vs. water.  If we were talking gasoline then these two observations would be even obvious to me.  Weren’t early engines lubricated with caster bean oil?  Of course it would be more difficult to diagnose much do to the lack of damage – too pro?

3)  My guess is that water became the industry/world because it's cheap and one of the four fundamental elements found in the 19th century. 

3)  Does anyone know the thermal transfer characteristics of oil?  We do know that it will easily handle much higher temperatures.  We also know that in closed heat exchange systems that oil if often used as the conductor - electric heaters.

4)  Don't internal combustion engines run more efficiently at temperatures over 212 F?  Of course pressurizing and treating the water to help tolerate this unearthly environment is required.  Part of my "dream" was a result of seeing so many miracle fuel savers that were simply pre-heaters.  Burning your coolant just sounds nice to a guy that lost both a Ford and a Chevy one cold and wintery night when he was sixteen.