Energy co-op ideas?
At Brad's request ( in comment here; followed by his energy co-op ideas), here's a post soliciting ideas for the energy co-op.
Got some? Post them in comments here.
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And Brad, I love the Pelton Wheel idea! I'm wondering though, how would it work on a creek whose level varied as much as Deer Creek's does?
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The Pelton Wheel Energy Demonstration Project is an outgrowth of a discussion with another Energy Co-op member at the 7/20/06 meeting. The member, I will call him "Dave" since I am terrible with names (although that could very well be his name), mentioned that NID has a rule against redirecting their water, but he thought it would be a good to try to install more micro-hydro electrical generators around the county.
The Pelton Wheel could be located away from the creek, even in town, as long as the water feeding the wheel came from the creek from far enough above the wheel. The length of the drop in the pipe from the intake of the pipe to the wheel gives you the water pressure (head) to turn the wheel.
Modern Pelton Wheel generators don't look as cool as the old "open" style. Here is one on Ebay
http://cgi.ebay.com/HYDRO-ELECTRIC-GENERATOR_W0QQitemZ220005141812QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/HYDRO-ELECTRIC-GENERATOR_
W0QQitemZ220005141812QQcmdZViewItem
or search for pelton wheel
Pelton Wheel on Wikipedia (with photo of the old kind) here.
FYI, tinyurl.com is handy, for shortening godawfully long URLs - e.g. the URL for Pelton wheel currently on ebay is at http://tinyurl.com/sxw8h (but the page will likely disappear in a few days though, if ebay scraps old pages)
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