bloovee wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Ron Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> You really need a *deep* drop to get enough speed into the water > flow to turn the turbines - I doubt if G.Brook is enough. >> >> Ron Jones > > Er, is that right? You can turn a turbine with any flow if the > turbine's small enough. It's just a question of whether the capital > and maintenance cost makes small-scale electricity generation > worthwhile. And you don't need a drop - just an outlet at the bottom > of a body of water where the "head" provides the pressure of water to > turn the turbine. > > The MSC experimented with hydro electric power at the lock sluices, > but the debris coming down caused problems and I'm not sure if it > still works. > > Now here's two ideas. If you dipped a small turbine in the water > behind the prop of a narrowboat and fed electricity back to the > boat... (or would the drag factor balance out any energy generated?)
No such thing as free energy.... Put a turbine behind a narrowboat and the overall equation is "burn diesel to make electricity" Ron Jones Process Safety & Development Specialist Don't repeat history, unreported chemical lab/plant near misses at http://www.crhf.org.uk Only two things are certain: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. ~ Albert Einstein
