$750 up Jackery's ladder: what it buys
Jackery HomePower 3000: A $750 Step Up From the 1000 v2 Power Station Jackery sells the HomePower 1000 v2 at $649 and the HomePower 3000 at $1,399. The step...
A $11,799 heater that burns your oil
EnergyLogic's 140H Waste Oil Heater — and the Oil It Cannot Buy EIA prices residential propane at $2.674 a gallon, with 91,452 BTU in it. EnergyLogic's 140H...
A solar well pump or 314 feet of wire
The Well Has No Power. The RPS 400 Solar Pump Does Not Need It. Wood County Electric builds overhead line at $6 a foot. Pioneer charges $6.50. A complete RPS...
A $1,899.99 stump grinder: 19 rentals
DK2's OPG777 Stump Grinder Costs 19 Days of Rental El Paso Tool Rental publishes $100 a day for a 12-inch commercial stump grinder. DK2 sells the machine for...
A $2,995 sawmill: 5,445 board feet
Wood-Mizer's LX30 Portable Sawmill — and Its 22-Inch Ceiling Two sawyers, in Washington and Michigan, publish the same rate to turn your log into lumber:...
A $2,999 ROV: 12 dives to break even
QYSEA's FIFISH V6 Expert Checks Hulls and Pilings on 4K Video A commercial diver charges $250 to swim under your boat once and hand you a video. A 4K robot...
$29 or 96 cents
A small steel bracket costs $29 from an online cutting service if you order one, and $3 each if you order ten. The steel in it costs 96 cents. A CNC plasma...
The 1,200-watt cap
A contractor-installed rooftop system costs $2.60 a watt. A kit that hangs on a railing and ends in a wall plug costs $1.99 a watt, needs no permit in Utah,...
A $22 receptionist
A human answering service charges $5.00 per minute on its entry plan. ElevenLabs' new AI receptionist charges an effective $0.37 — and it picks up at 3 a.m.,...
Gas at $1.04/kWh
Electricity from a gas inverter generator costs about $1.04 per kWh at August 2026 pump prices. The same kWh from a wall outlet: $0.18. EGO's new Nexus 1400W...
Spray drone math
A $39,999 spray drone is now in stock in the US. We ran the per-acre math against a crop duster. It works — above about 980 acres a year. Read on the web:...
