free power from excess water
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i have water pressure of 100kpa most of the year how is a cheap way to turn this into power
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Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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All would appreciate that and you'd get more participation.
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Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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Gunnar Englund
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What is the source of this water and why does the pressure change? Water company not paying the electric bill? I have a camp on a cliff 30 feet above a river. People are amazed when I tell them I have a water problem (3 feet in my basement). The problem is solid rock up to ground level between house and river. Used to drain out by gravity till my neighbor dug up his yard. A few years back I ran a test and figured 500 gal a day without running dry. That is not a lot of power, but it will solve one problem.
If the source is a water utility, you can't get more power out than they put in to pump it. And they don't pump it for free, my water is $3.53/1000 gal.
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Are you implying that he got excess water from the side of a cut diamond? Quite a trick I'm sure!
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Swedes....
Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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Who you callin' a Swede?
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Gunnar Englund
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Yep.. I meant Faucet.(ignorant Merican here)
I must be more careful before poking fun at skogs..
Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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santo vaca 'el hecko t'u apariencia y comportamieto est'upido
Chuck
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What happened to the power conversion part of it?
Gunnar Englund
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Chuck
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Gunnar Englund
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wall wart => water meter? Our meters do this and broadcast signal to meter reader walking past house with hand held unit.
Seems to work, our bill is adjusted accordingly each month.
Chuck
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Cord wart =
The water company using your water/pressure for electricity figures well... for them!
Keith Cress
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Keith Cress
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Gunnar Englund
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hence the slang description. Learn something every day I guess.
Chuck
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Not only that, but your local water company expended power to get that water pressure to you. If everyone started trying to extract power from it, there goes your pressure, so they would need to expend MORE power to keep it up. Their costs to do so come from where? Your water bill!
Bottom line, there is no free lunch. Not even the glass of water that goes with it.
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http://www.ntstainless.co.uk/products.htm
Download the PDF brochure and check out the water powered LED lit taps...
(Not sure how to do a more direct link, sorry)
I wonder how they work.
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Keith Cress
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Cold fusion anyone?
They are trying to disguise that they have some fuel in their "catalyst" container that may evolve hydrogen when reacted with water. "Catalyst wears out? Just buy a new catalyst module!"
The polymer fuel cell is just about 'standard' these days. I have no problem with a fuel cartridge that you add water to. It actually sounds better than a bunch of methanol leaking into airliner luggage.
Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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heres some info
15 to 20 years ago a mate put a 3 km road into world heritage fain forest pre world heritage also he put in 2km of 2inch poly pipe to a natural dam now over the wet season the wast of water in huge but only 2 months of the year there is no waste
now at the bottom of the hill it splits to two one fills his tank the other fills another plus stock an feeds an orchard so there is a number of places that it can be taped and a number of way to do it each pipe at the split has pressure of 100kpa and the waste water just flows back to the creek
6 months of the year the first tank over flows 1 gigaliteron avarge an hour not including the wet season and the world is in drought these people dont know how lucky they are
now back to the question how is a cheap way to turn this in to power from old cars bikes and machines
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thanx
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You will increase your knowledge greatly compared to asking us.
http://store.altenergystore.com/Hydropower/c552/
http://www.homepower.com/education/comp_hydro.cfm
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Keith Cress
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any help would be great
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This is the page for U.S. Patent and Trademark office. On the top of the page Click "How to search" you will find complete instructions for viewing. Hope this helps.
http://www.uspto.gov/
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RF power meters do that, generate power from water flow
are those RF power meters or rf water meters, i.e. is this an application of automatic meter reading? If you can point me to a product I'd be grateful as my googling has been rather unproductive.
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This is this manufacturer of system in my home.
http
I will take and post pic.s if you need them.
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Looks like it is battery powered, although a 20 year life is very impressive. It sounded, above, like it was powered by the water flow.
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"The new electronic RF power meters do that, generate power from water flow so they don't have to be connected to a wal wart."
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Here is a "Wall Wart", (for the one person out of 25M who doesn't know).
Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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I was that in my class as well.
But I thought possibly this could
have been California teminology,
up here in Minnesota the only
reference close would be keyboard
wart! although you can't see it in
the pic. the output plug is really short.
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(Just for the record that's my good buddy, not me, putting in concrete anchors.)
Keith Cress
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I think a translation is needed - at least by me...
Gunnar Englund
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Re-checking this thread I saw that my two pictures one of a 'wall wart' one of a 'cord wart' were screwed up and in fact both of 'cord warts'. So I put up a correct picture of a 'wall wart' stating, "this is for", the 1 out of 25 million (M) people who don't know what a 'wall wart' is. (as apposed to 1 out of 50 who don't know what a "cord wart" is)
machmech responded "Thanks for making me 24,999
I was that in my class as well." Which if I look at closely confuses me too.!
Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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"Here is a "Wall Wart", (for the one person out of 25M who doesn't know)"
25M = 25000
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http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.html
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Keith Cress
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Prefix value symbol date example etymology
yotta 10^24 Y 1991 yottajoule from otto, eight Italian
zetta 10^21 Z 1991 zettamole from sette, seven Italian
exa 10^18 E 1975 exaweber from hex, six in Greek
peta 10^15 P 1975 petahertz from pente, five in Greek
tera 10^12 T teracandela teras, monster in Greek
giga 10^9 G gigawatt gigas, giant in Greek
mega 10^6 M megakelvin megas, huge in Greek
kilo 10^3 k kilovolt khilioi, thousand in Greek
hecto 10^2 h hectoradian hekaton, hundred in Greek
deca/deka 10 D (or da) dekapascal deka, ten in Greek
deci 10^-1 d decisievert decimus, tenth in Latin
centi 10^-2 c centimetre centum, hundred in Latin
milli 10^-3 m milliampere mille, thousand in Latin
micro 10^-6 m (Greek mu) microohm mikros, small in Greek
nano 10^-9 n nanosecond nanos, dwarf in Greek
pico 10^-12 p picofarad pico, little bit in Spanish
femto 10^-15 f 1964 femtonewton femten, 15 in Danish or Norwegian
atto 10^-18 a 1964 attogram atten, 18 in Danish or Norwegian
zepto 10^-21 z 1991 zeptohenri from sept, seven Greek
yocto 10^-24 y 1991 yoctolitre from okto, eight Greek
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is a quantity of a production count. This is the way Job
tickets are written It allows larger numbers to be placed
within a small box. He was describing the populace and not an electrical sum.
I think Keith is outstanding but had a little problem
thinking out side of the box!
25M = 25,000
25MM = 25,000,000
Now if he would have posted 25 MΩ- This I understand to be mega ohms.
Nice list of definitions by the way, I don't have this many
in my electrical manual.
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(I think I deserve points for wrapping this tangent back into the original thread subject).
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I first thought that it would be a split molecule contained in a yoktolitre of water. But checking Avogadro's number (yes, I had forgotten the exact value!) I think that there are about 30 dihydromonoxide molecules in a yoktolitre of water.
Going to the SI unit yoktogram makes the whole idea impossible. There is nothing like a yoktogram of water!
Gunnar Englund
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That will be usefull in a conversation...
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Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.- http://www.flaminsystems.com
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What do you mean by "I think I deserve points for wrapping this tangent back into the original thread subject"
Did you?
Anyhow. Here's that PLS you deserve so well.
Gunnar Englund
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