Looking for a little help here. I've been searching micro hydro setups, but most seem to focus on streams with heads. I recently purchased a place on the...
One could also build in the toilet or in the shower a small turbine. Everytime the toilet is flushed or a shower is taken one could charge a small baterypack...
Did you try www.verdantpower.com ? Let us know what they have to offer. Cheers, Conrad. DaveHempstead <carprogrammer@...> wrote: Looking for a little...
Hey Dave, I have been researching a new way to create power from undershot waterwheels. The new concept is to take high volume/low pressure water convert it...
The tide power is not appropriate for extraction due to low speed of water. For example to extract 500 W from tide with speed of 2 ft/s you need from turbine...
... I've tried the site a couple of times with two different browsers and keep getting a blank. Do you know of another way of getting this info? Regards, Max...
Max Enfield
max@...
Jun 6, 2006 5:41 am
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This group is dedicated to the Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Alternator, as designed by Hugh Piggott, with additional development by Dan Fink and Dan Bartmann of...
Mark, I'm not the person who had posted from Dartmouth, although I did go to Dartmouth long ago ... visiting sometime. What suppliers did you use for your...
... Dan, (or anyone with ideas...) I read your web site. Excellent info. Do you have any suggestions for good books to read? Here are some of the books I am...
Hi Walter.........you must know my old friend who lives in West Topsham.......Charlie Hall.......I spent two summers at Goddard College teaching Alternative...
Hello, Is there a turbine which discharges in reverse direction ? All representations I have seen so far is the discharge leaving the turbine is almost in the...
Nils Adams
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Jun 9, 2006 2:12 pm
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... Hi Mark, Yes, in fact Charlie Hall, the Barrel Man, is just down the road from us about two miles. We get plastic and steel drums as well as pails and such...
Nils, Why not just do the plumbing yourself? My turbine (which is a pump run backwards) discharges water at about 90 degrees. I then discharge into a tailstock...
Thanks Rick for sharing your experiences. Regards, Nils ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Nils Adams
nilsadams@...
Jun 11, 2006 1:12 am
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Hi Walter, Yes, in fact Charlie Hall, the Barrel Man, is just down the road from us about two miles. We get plastic and steel drums as well as pails and such...
Hello: Where I live we have ditch water we call it, (irrigation water) in an open ditch and I am on the end of this line as it goes down the gully another...
chuck3316@...
Jun 11, 2006 3:55 am
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... The basic formula for flow through a rectangular notch in a weir is Q = C x (L - 0.2H) x H^1.5 where Q is the flow rate in cubic metres per sec, C is a...
Max Enfield
max@...
Jun 12, 2006 5:40 am
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DEar Markudi Please send mail seperately on str_mtsystem@... so that I can send you my research paper on the same, which will answer your every...
str_mtsystem@...
Jun 12, 2006 11:47 am
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Hello All, Based on the design flow and available head, I have selected a type of Turbine. The planed electricity is to be connected to a nearby power unit. ...
Nils Adams
nilsadams@...
Jun 12, 2006 2:37 pm
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Since you are pumping water uphill one way to make your pumping absolutely cost free is to use a turbine to drive a pump. The fall is existing and the power...
The new yahoogroups formatting and my browser made Max's table hard to read (it is fine in the reply compose window now as fixed width text), so I tried the...
Hi Max, ... Could you let us know within which range of notch lengths and water heights this equation is reasonably accurate? I ask this because obviously it...
Heool all, I am new to this group and am not sure if this topic is covered, but here goes: I have a fish farm in southern California, where electricity rates...
Dear Markudi This is a very interesting question and personally I feel it should be possible, however small or large the amount of energy may be. Next question...
Good Idea, but the low part where I figured the head to is a couple hundred feet down stream from my little pond/dam. Perhaps there is enough power to run the...
chuck3316@...
Jun 13, 2006 6:26 am
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Hi everyone, My background is in chemical engineering and i have long been fascinated by renewable energy sources particularly, simple technologies that...
Hello, The best and simple way is to have no fall at the pump outlets. You can do that with a simple pipe at the outlets. The pipe work as a succion pipe. Then...
Why not extend your discharge pipes into the water? this would create suction head, and reduce electricity demand. Easier to conserve than to generate, and...
Hello, You can get information on water wheel in this site (in French) there is althougt formulas http://clients.newel.net/particulier/amader/ Could you tell...
Hi Manfred, I've scanned some pages from my graduate fluid dynamics textbook, and my notes in deriving weir equations. The files are on my web site. ...
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