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Okay, well, sorry...didn't mean to start anything.  I just read the 
article and since it was kind of homesteady in nature, thought I'd pass 
it on.  The LAST thing I want to do is to create problems.

Bev, sick today and I just want to crawl under a rock

Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> > Power your home
>
> Bev, this is one of those topics that always starts off a slug-fest and ends 
> in the two (or more) camps calling each other everything but ....
>
> Every few months someone has invented a device that breaks through the old 
> technology and enables a vehicle to get 250 mpg, or to generate enough 
> electricity of a house from the waste water from the toilet dropping through the pipe.
>
> Can you generate 2kwh of electricity from 8" of water fall.  Absolutely!  If 
> you have enough water volume.
>
> The formula is:
> > Power (in kw)  =  drop in feet x volume of water (cu ft/second) x efficiency 
> / 11.8
>
> Our Scottish fellow claims 70% efficiency and 2 kw of electricity.
>
> 2  = .66  x  volume x .7 / 11.8
>
>
> volume =  (about) 50 cubic feet per second
>
>
> Zowie, that's a torrent!.
>
> After following several hundred such stories over the years that the 
> following from the article will tend to explain a lot:
>
> "He and Mr Cattley, who live in Kendal in Cumbria, took the results to the 
> Lake District National Park, and secured a £15,000 grant from the organisation's 
> sustainability fund." 
>
>
>
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