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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Making electricity from roof runoff?
  • Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 00:19:36 +0100


I agree completely but it is still much more efficient to use that trickle of water directly in a mechanical way than to make electricity with it.
john


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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