And if you happen to live on land that has year-round water flow with any decent elevation change, a pelton wheel is a *very* efficient device!!
I've considered even using it on rainwater collection :) The wind be good, but wispy; water can be directed and gravity shouldn't be giving out anytime soon, heh. Need better "batteries"? Use simple potential energy to raise a big weight, and let it down slowly, say geared to a flywheel or something... the weight can be raised slowly by wind, bicycle power, etc ;) ben On 2/24/07, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not to knock the wind out of your sails but I think you've forgotten another major source of sustainable electricity. What it was blew right by me but I'm sure it'll be a breeze to remember. :-) That be all, Mr O. P.S. Make mag even had a DIY article for it. --- dooger watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does seem like solar/electric is going to be the only sensibly > > affordable energy to shoot for. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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