I've been following this guy on youtube for awhile now:
He lives totally off grid, I'm not really planning on doing the same anytime soon but I find the idea of doing so pretty interesting.
I have one of these (This is not mine)
These old Listers can run continuously, literally, for months, even years. They generate around 4KWhr/litre of pretty much anything you want to put into them (Diesel, heating oil, Waste motor oil, Chip fat, Rendered down dead bodies of ones enemies, etc
)
I also have a rather more powerful 7.5KVa gen set that I built from scratch based on a Perkins 4108 diesel engine (With a marine exhaust manifold to maximise the heat>Water CHP utility)
(Unfortunately the 4108 has a hydraulically regulated, rather than a mechanically regulated, injector pump so its speed regulation is poor, I modified the springs to improve matters but there is still a lot of droop between no load and full load. I have set it to 60Hz no load to 50Hz full load. The Leroy Summer alternator is fine within this range since it is rated at both speeds.)
So yes, I have plans!
I will be posting more about this in the future.