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New development projects south of San Felipe

wilderone - 8-24-2023 at 10:29 AM

I got curious about how Rancho Costa Verde fared after storm Hilary since it is downstream from an alluvial fan. I didn't find any information about this, but I did learn that a company called International Land Alliance now owns the property, and also has another raw land/"resort" in the works about 5 mi. south of Rcho Costa Verde. Called Oasis Park Resort, this one has 1,300 lots for sale, boasts all the usual - a marina, clubhouse, blah blah. Video shows a pristine beach, but website says grading the homesites, 2 mi. to the coast from Hwy. 5. Why - since Rcho Costa Verde isn't even close to being built out. They also have some raw land in the Guadalupe Valley area - same thing - middle of nowhere, hundreds of lots side by side, common amenities planned - called Valle Devino or something. Scraping the natural countryside. https://ila.company/valle-divino-resort/

RFClark - 8-24-2023 at 11:39 AM

Wildone,

Rancho Costa Verde had a youtube video showing a “revolutionary new electric generator” that consisted of an electric motor connected to an alternator. That should tell you all you need to know about them. That said people are buying houses there! P.T. Barnum got it right. There’s one (or more) born every minute.

AKgringo - 8-24-2023 at 12:27 PM

Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
Wildone,

Rancho Costa Verde had a youtube video showing a “revolutionary new electric generator” that consisted of an electric motor connected to an alternator. That should tell you all you need to know about them. That said people are buying houses there! P.T. Barnum got it right. There’s one (or more) born every minute.


An electric generator without battery back up? That's ridiculous! :biggrin:

RFClark - 8-24-2023 at 12:28 PM

:bounce:👍

5 miles south?

PaulW - 8-24-2023 at 02:55 PM

The north end of the red line is R costa Verde
The south end is 5 miles down the coast
The off road entrance to enter Matomi wash is Km 60
That means the new development is smack in the water flow path from Matomi. A major drainage


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wilderone - 8-24-2023 at 06:16 PM

Specifically says Oasis Park Resort at Km 61.

elgatoloco - 8-24-2023 at 07:59 PM

I clicked around the website. Some nice videos and photos. Pushing dirt. Sign me up. :rolleyes:

I looked at Bajamar section - 'Direct access to the Open Seas possibilities endless'. ;D

I do recall decades ago folks saying El Dorado Ranch was a dream. I guess its a success?

San Felipe is my least favorite part of Baja but I may be biased cuz the surf sucks. :lol:

mjs - 8-24-2023 at 08:09 PM

Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
Wildone,

Rancho Costa Verde had a youtube video showing a “revolutionary new electric generator” that consisted of an electric motor connected to an alternator. That should tell you all you need to know about them. That said people are buying houses there! P.T. Barnum got it right. There’s one (or more) born every minute.


I went and looked at that with my daughter when they were giving a public presentation of a house it was installed in. Multiple banks of batteries connected to a relay cabinet. Relays would switch between banks as the batteries ran down to feed an inverter that supplied the home and a vsd that fed an electric motor. Motor was belt drive to an alternator to recharge the batteries.

I questioned the "engineer " on the efficiency of each component and how they overcame those losses. His reply was that it was hard to explain in English. My daughter with a science background and fluent in Spanish asked him for the Spanish explanation. He was on the spot with no reply. We congratulated him on his creation of a perpetual motion machine and his solving the world's energy crisis.

I was told afterwards that they asked who we were and we were now persona non grata.

Last I heard it had all been ripped out and replaced with a conventional solar system.

[Edited on 8-25-2023 by mjs]

Udo - 8-25-2023 at 12:49 PM

Baja is full of would-be-dreams. It all looks great on paper!
Quote: Originally posted by mjs  
Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
Wildone,

Rancho Costa Verde had a youtube video showing a “revolutionary new electric generator” that consisted of an electric motor connected to an alternator. That should tell you all you need to know about them. That said people are buying houses there! P.T. Barnum got it right. There’s one (or more) born every minute.


I went and looked at that with my daughter when they were giving a public presentation of a house it was installed in. Multiple banks of batteries connected to a relay cabinet. Relays would switch between banks as the batteries ran down to feed an inverter that supplied the home and a vsd that fed an electric motor. Motor was belt drive to an alternator to recharge the batteries.

I questioned the "engineer " on the efficiency of each component and how they overcame those losses. His reply was that it was hard to explain in English. My daughter with a science background and fluent in Spanish asked him for the Spanish explanation. He was on the spot with no reply. We congratulated him on his creation of a perpetual motion machine and his solving the world's energy crisis.

I was told afterwards that they asked who we were and we were now persona non grata.

Last I heard it had all been ripped out and replaced with a conventional solar system.

[Edited on 8-25-2023 by mjs]

PaulW - 8-25-2023 at 02:09 PM

As an aside a neighbor in the solar area has a backup battery charger. It consists of a very small diesel motor out of a junk sailboat. Belt drive to a very large truck alternator.
He is an engineer and has it all figured out. He keeps it running quite a bit. Fuel consumption is minimal and the thing never overheats.

mtgoat666 - 8-25-2023 at 02:19 PM

Quote: Originally posted by lencho  
Quote: Originally posted by mjs  
and a vsd that fed an electric motor. Motor was belt drive to an alternator to recharge the batteries.
"vsd"? :?:

Only thing I can come up with is "variable speed drive" but it doesn't make sense in that context...


Hmmm,… I guessed the author meant ‘voltage step down’ (e.g. step down transformer) but that is odd word use…

mjs - 8-25-2023 at 08:38 PM

VSD = variable speed drive. They can do soft start/stop but in this case the benefit was single phase input to three phase output.

[Edited on 8-26-2023 by mjs]