A friend who coincidentally thinks I am a nut job, said he made a system back in the 'old days' in which a small water turbine powered by a small stream pumped water into a storage tank as well as generate electricity. Somehow this system was augmented with a small wind generator. He said that when the wind wasn't blowing water was released from the tank through the turbine turning the generator generating electricity. Sorry my brain is not completely clear on the details of these two systems. More than likely he was talking two different systems.
The point that I thought was notable is that he used a water tank to store energy. Filling the tank when energy was there, either through solar, wind or hydraulic. Brian _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
