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We published an article a couple years ago about quiet portable generators for campers. And I'll put the link in the show notes. Right down below, in your podcast player app, you'll see the link to an article that we're calling right now. Quiet generators for campers. And, you know, talked about how awesome the technology is and how far the technology for these quiet portable generators for campers have come along.

We write about how sometimes they're quiet sometimes not, fuel consumption, et cetera. It's a great article and there are some wonderful products recommended in there. At some point, I got a comment. In that post, and basically, the commenter said, , geez, these things use a lot of gas and they're not very efficient compared to solar and things like that.

And okay. That's great, but good luck running your air conditioner all night in the desert on solar power, on house batteries... I know some of us can do that, but for most of us, that's not possible. So I still believe that a quiet portable generator for a camper van is a great solution to staying cool and, or warm and running a lot of other stuff that requires power.

There are many wonderful improvements to the technology in the last few years. One of those improvements is that they've gotten a lot smaller, so they're easier to pack around, take up less space. They do use substantially less fuel. And there’s a protocol called carb compliance, which again, you'll find details about in the article linked below.

Quiet portable generators for campers are a viable solution to staying cool. If you are traveling in very hot regions and time of year.

Most of the advantages to quiet portable generators for campers are pretty obvious: They're quiet, you can crank out a bunch of power. They. Small and easy to carry, they're super reliable. Now, super easy to start. The prices have come way down. You can get 2000 Watts for under $500 from highly respected and consistent brands and companies. So those are the obvious advantages of quiet portable generators for campers.

Some of the disadvantages would be the cost of fuel and the fact that you have to carry Gasoline containers on board if you’re going to rely on quiet portable generators for campers for a lot of power production.

I'm looking into attaching the vans fuel tank directly to the generator. I, I don't have any knowledge of that at the moment, but I'll get back to you on that. Maybe if you know about that, you can send me a comment to contact at vansage.com or on that article in comments. Leave a comment and let me know what you think if you feel like it.

Carrying fuel is a negative, potentially the smell of gasoline in the van… You're gonna need to either carry this thing outside on a trailer hitch cargo carrier or on your rooftop or something like that, or seal it up in a couple of plastic bags so that it doesn't stink up your van.

The noise of quiet portable generators for campers can be an issue because actually, they're not 100% silent. I think they're similar in noise to the diesel or other fuel powered...