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  • From: DGilsen@aol.com
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Making electricity from roof runoff?
  • Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 15:35:13 -0400 (EDT)

Unless it rains all the time or you have a huge catchments container you
couldn't have a continues wheel running. You would have to have a lot of
force to push a grinding wheel to power a washing machine or some other
thing.


In a message dated 5/13/2013 3:38:49 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
dhondt@eircom.net writes:


Not to make electricity! We have 20 meter head and two gallons per second
and we produce 2 KW.
Might turn a butter churn.
John

>I was wondering if anyone's tried using their roof runoff to power a water
> wheel. I'm looking at a move to the Pacific northwest, and was thinking
> about trying to divert all the water from the roof into one pipe/channel,
> past a water wheel, and into some sort of reservoir. Thoughts?
>
> you
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