First, stop laughing at me

I'm always sitting around thinking of dumb ideas, and I've come up with another one. It involves mounting a 240D engine on a cradle and couple it to a genset head (or two).

The motivation is twofold:

A house that's all electric, including the well pump (480' down) running on 240 with two 30amp fuses. That would require a large generator - one expensive enough to make it not affordable to said homeowners.

A 240D engine running is less than the cost of a cheap diesel genset, and the engine and genset head are less expensive than a decent diesel genset.

The real question is about the governer. A friend of mine has a Unimog with the throttle pedal connected to a governor not to the normal throttle on the injection pump. This seems like what would be needed. Set it at 1800rpm (or something else if the genset is geared to the engine somehow) and then use the governer to keep it at that speed.

How doable is that?

How dumb of an idea is this?

I expect that the engine could have pleanty of muffler installed on it, and a sound-deadening cabinet (like the moderately priced home gensets come with) installed around it. Space really isn't a concern.

-Tad