DC motors for wind power

In article <4a6e47e0$0$7468$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com>,
David Nebenzahl <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:
A DC generator generates an AC waveform that is mechanically rectified
by the commutator and brushes.

No, an *alternator* does that (which is why it's so called). A generator
just generates plain old DC. Like the ones on old VWs. No diodes.
Click to expand...
The clue is in the commutator. That is a mechanical switch which does
approx. the same as the diodes in an alternator. If the dynamo
intrinsically produced DC it would merely need slip rings as in an
alternator.

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On 7/27/2009 11:26 PM Dave Plowman (News) spake thus:

In article <4a6e47e0$0$7468$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com>,
David Nebenzahl <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:

[someone else wrote]

A DC generator generates an AC waveform that is mechanically rectified
by the commutator and brushes.

No, an *alternator* does that (which is why it's so called). A generator
just generates plain old DC. Like the ones on old VWs. No diodes.

The clue is in the commutator. That is a mechanical switch which does
approx. the same as the diodes in an alternator. If the dynamo
intrinsically produced DC it would merely need slip rings as in an
alternator.
Click to expand...
What in the world are you talking about? "Mechanical switch"?

The commutator is a set of rotary contacts. My VW (old 6-volt one) had a
generator with a commutator. Produced DC without any diodes.


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In article <4a6ea58f$0$7471$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com>,
David Nebenzahl <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:
A DC generator generates an AC waveform that is mechanically rectified
by the commutator and brushes.

No, an *alternator* does that (which is why it's so called). A
generator just generates plain old DC. Like the ones on old VWs. No
diodes.

The clue is in the commutator. That is a mechanical switch which does
approx. the same as the diodes in an alternator. If the dynamo
intrinsically produced DC it would merely need slip rings as in an
alternator.

What in the world are you talking about? "Mechanical switch"?
Click to expand...
WTF do you think the purpose of the commutator is? It mechanically
switches the output from each armature winding. If you replaced that with
slip rings so a single armature winding was not switched you'd get AC.
Basic electromagnetic theory.

If you don't believe me have a look at this:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo and click on Contents 1) Description.

The commutator is a set of rotary contacts. My VW (old 6-volt one) had a
generator with a commutator. Produced DC without any diodes.
Click to expand...
Then it ran on AC - like many small two strokes etc. They have a rectifier
if they need to also charge a battery.

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"David Nebenzahl" <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote in message
news:4a6ea58f$0$7471$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com...
On 7/27/2009 11:26 PM Dave Plowman (News) spake thus:

In article <4a6e47e0$0$7468$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com>,
David Nebenzahl <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:

[someone else wrote]

A DC generator generates an AC waveform that is mechanically rectified
by the commutator and brushes.

No, an *alternator* does that (which is why it's so called). A generator
just generates plain old DC. Like the ones on old VWs. No diodes.

The clue is in the commutator. That is a mechanical switch which does
approx. the same as the diodes in an alternator. If the dynamo
intrinsically produced DC it would merely need slip rings as in an
alternator.

What in the world are you talking about? "Mechanical switch"?
Click to expand...
You are mistaken in your understanding of a DC generator with a commutator.
Dave is quite correct in that the basic machine generates a bipolar output,
which is made unipolar by the synchronous switching action of the
commutator.

Arfa
 
David Nebenzahl wrote:

On 7/27/2009 11:26 PM Dave Plowman (News) spake thus:

In article <4a6e47e0$0$7468$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com>,
David Nebenzahl <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:

[someone else wrote]

A DC generator generates an AC waveform that is mechanically rectified
by the commutator and brushes.

No, an *alternator* does that (which is why it's so called). A generator
just generates plain old DC. Like the ones on old VWs. No diodes.

The clue is in the commutator. That is a mechanical switch which does
approx. the same as the diodes in an alternator. If the dynamo
intrinsically produced DC it would merely need slip rings as in an
alternator.

What in the world are you talking about? "Mechanical switch"?

The commutator is a set of rotary contacts. My VW (old 6-volt one) had a
generator with a commutator. Produced DC without any diodes.

Alternators contain a pair of slip rings, one brush contacting each ring
Click to expand...
to transfer the generated AC voltage to the output terminals. A generator
has a commutator that is made up of many copper segments separated by
insulating strips. One or more pairs of brushes ride on the commutator.
Armature coils are connected between comm bar pairs. As the generator
rotates, the coils sweep through a stationary magnetic field and
electromagnetic induction creates an AC voltage across the comm bars
which are cleverly arranged so that the positive and negative brushes
cross over the right bars at the right time to convert AC to DC without
diodes.

Old cars used generators 'cuz power diodes were in short supply a
hundred years ago. Automotive alternators became practical around
1960, thanks to silicon power diodes. Alternators are less costly
to manufacture and are more rugged.

Bryce
 
In article <h4mpsc$apg$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
Bryce <none@invalid.invalid> wrote:
Old cars used generators 'cuz power diodes were in short supply a
hundred years ago. Automotive alternators became practical around
1960, thanks to silicon power diodes. Alternators are less costly
to manufacture and are more rugged.
Click to expand...
The limiting factor on how high you could rev a dynamo (and therefore the
max output) was set by the commutator. On an alternator the slip rings
carry little current so they can be revved much higher - thus giving a
better output at low engine revs too. Of course many older cars had a much
more restricted rev range than modern ones so the dynamo served pretty
well - especially since loads were lower.

Note for old car nuts - you can now buy alternators which are externally
identical to a dynamo. Well, a Lucas one at least. ;-)

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On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:56:52 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
<jeffl@cruzio.com>wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:29:04 -0400, Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net
wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:26:40 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
jeffl@cruzio.com>wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:17:56 -0400, Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net
wrote:

Find some old DC generators from autos before they started using an
alternator. Don't know what you would use for a prop maybe some custom
thing out of a polymer like a spinner for a child's toy.

Automobile wind generator... Something like this?
http://www.google.com/patents?id=lHkyAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4

Well yes without the auto and with direct drive. I think the old Delco
generators needed about 900 RPM before the reg snapped on and let
charge voltage to the battery. My brother in law owns a 53 Chevy with
the Blue Flame 6 Vette motor and a DC generator. I've worked on his
voltage reg and it's very inefficient.

I thought you might be amused. When I was in college, I had a 1960
Ford Falcon. It had a generator and mechanical regulator. That
worked tolerably well until I discovered ham radio. The tube type
mobile radios of the day used either dynamotor or vibrator power
supplies, which were a severe drain on the vehicles electrical system:
http://gotcomms.com/motorola_old_twoway/
I vaguely recall something like 6A per radio in receive and 20-60A on
xmit. At my worst, I had 4ea Motorola 80D and 140D radios in the
trunk. The rear springs were bottomed and I could not turn all 4 on
at the same time. To save power, I also installed a "transistor
powered" tube FM radio:
http://gotcomms.com/motorola_old_radios/motorola_fm900_car-radio.jpg
which burned an additional 2A. The generator was just not going to
work. I eventually replaced it with an alternator, which worked much
better.

In college, my Ford Falcon generator was converted into a wind
generator. I have some print photos, but I can't find them. In order
to make it work in light winds, I had to use a fairly large pulley
ratio to get the minimum rpm. I don't recall the numbers, but it
worked in a stiff breeze, and was useless at lower wind speeds.

The reason is that wind turbine output varies with the cube of the
wind speed. That means that at low speeds, tiny changes in wind speed
produce rather large changes in delivered power. The generator also
has a rather non-linear shaft RPM to voltage output curve. If the two
curves have their knee points superimposed by proper pulley ratio
selection, which is the best one can do with such a combination, the
result is miserable performance at low wind speeds, and a rather
abrupt increase in output when the wind goes over the knee. As I
recall, there were only two magnets (two poles) and a commutator in
the automobile generator, while the typical PM wind generator might
have 36 or more. The increased number of poles means that the PM
generator will start producing output at 50 RPM, while the automobile
generator will require about 1000 RPM.

There are also problems at the high end, but I won't go there.

I probably have some old alternative energy books on my shelf that
offer plans for using an old automobile generator, but I couldn't find
anything of the sort with Google. This should offer a clue as to its
popularity. This sorta covers the alternatives:
http://otherpower.com/otherpower_wind_alternators.html
and does not include the automobile generator.
Click to expand...
Thanksfor the links and as always a great story.
 
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:41:17 -0400, Bryce <none@invalid.invalid>wrote:

Meat Plow wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:26:13 -0400, Bryce <none@invalid.invalid>wrote:

Meat Plow wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:33:35 +0200, Bart Bervoets
sunnylion@online.be>wrote:

Does anyone have any large permanent magnet motors that could be used to
build a few micro wind turbines?

Bart Bervoets

Find some old DC generators from autos before they started using an
alternator. Don't know what you would use for a prop maybe some custom
thing out of a polymer like a spinner for a child's toy.

A DC generator generates an AC waveform that is mechanically rectified
by the commutator and brushes. Isn't it better to eliminate the comm
and brushes (maintenance and friction losses) and rectify with diodes?
That's what an alternator does, although its field is rotating while
the DC motor/generator field is stationary.

Doesn't an alternator need a voltage on the field to make voltage and
then you regulate the field to regulate the output?

I guess the choice would be up to the OP and his design to store/use
the end product.

An alternator (or, for that matter, a DC generator) need some magnetic
field to sweep windings through. There's usually enough residual
magnetic field in the iron from earlier running to get things started.
The alternator on my standby-power set does this. If the residual
is too small or gone, you gotta "flash" the machine with a brief
current pulse from a storage battery to restore the residual.

Superman would use kryptonite instead.
Click to expand...
Yeah I have a 4000 watt standby AC generator that rely's on residual
magnetism. There are two types a brushed type (through which you would
flash the field with a 6 volt lantern battery) and a non-brushed type
that I forget at the moment how you get it going when the residual is
gone. But I can almost 99.9% guaranty you that if I remove the field
connection on my Harley that the alternator would produce zero
volktage.
 
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:20:03 -0700, David Nebenzahl
<nobody@but.us.chickens>wrote:

On 7/27/2009 11:26 PM Dave Plowman (News) spake thus:

In article <4a6e47e0$0$7468$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com>,
David Nebenzahl <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:

[someone else wrote]

A DC generator generates an AC waveform that is mechanically rectified
by the commutator and brushes.

No, an *alternator* does that (which is why it's so called). A generator
just generates plain old DC. Like the ones on old VWs. No diodes.

The clue is in the commutator. That is a mechanical switch which does
approx. the same as the diodes in an alternator. If the dynamo
intrinsically produced DC it would merely need slip rings as in an
alternator.

What in the world are you talking about? "Mechanical switch"?

The commutator is a set of rotary contacts. My VW (old 6-volt one) had a
generator with a commutator. Produced DC without any diodes.
Click to expand...
The output voltage at the comm is DC not a 'switched by windings and
com bar AC'.
 
If you look on ebay you'll see many used treadmill PMDC motors
sold for this use.
Click to expand...
Yes, so i now noticed, there are some solutions but alas a bit bulky.
I did some research already and have experimented with car alternators,
i got so far i can make one that charges at 400rpm but the wind is
too unpredictable and the field coil needs to be energized all the time
which drains your battery in dead moments, rather a pm alternator as
suggested as i don't feel much for having to build a dynamo from start,
but hey, if i have to...
But i did buy some motors on ebay as suggested, they are treadmill
motors.
Someone else suggested the use of a motor off an electrical bicycle,
benefit is that it's weatherproof.
I just thought someone here could sell me some instead
of on eekbay.
What i would like is an easy off the shelf solution, but i can see
that there isn't really one.
Thanks everybody for the input on this.

Bart
 
Bart Bervoets wrote:

If you look on ebay you'll see many used treadmill PMDC motors
sold for this use.

Yes, so i now noticed, there are some solutions but alas a bit bulky.
I did some research already and have experimented with car alternators,
i got so far i can make one that charges at 400rpm but the wind is
too unpredictable and the field coil needs to be energized all the time
which drains your battery in dead moments, rather a pm alternator as
suggested as i don't feel much for having to build a dynamo from start,
but hey, if i have to...
But i did buy some motors on ebay as suggested, they are treadmill
motors.
Someone else suggested the use of a motor off an electrical bicycle,
benefit is that it's weatherproof.
I just thought someone here could sell me some instead
of on eekbay.
What i would like is an easy off the shelf solution, but i can see
that there isn't really one.
Thanks everybody for the input on this.

Bart
Click to expand...
Wind turbine kits which include everything except the tower and the wind are
available ... but at a price.

PM alternators avoid the need for field excitation, but now you need some
other way to efficiently regulate output voltage as turbine speed changes.

No need to keep the field energized when the turbine isn't turning. A bit
of control electronics solves that.

A local college just announced an associate degree program in wind power.
I wonder whether the diploma comes with a pair of wooden shoes!

Bryce
 
Thanks for the links and as always a great story.
Click to expand...
As well thanks from me, i know about otherpower but
i think i come right anyway.

Bart Bervoets
 
In article <30jjk7.prv.19.6@news.alt.net>, Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net> wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:41:17 -0400, Bryce <none@invalid.invalid>wrote:

Meat Plow wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:26:13 -0400, Bryce <none@invalid.invalid>wrote:

Meat Plow wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:33:35 +0200, Bart Bervoets
sunnylion@online.be>wrote:

Does anyone have any large permanent magnet motors that could be used to
build a few micro wind turbines?

Bart Bervoets

Find some old DC generators from autos before they started using an
alternator. Don't know what you would use for a prop maybe some custom
thing out of a polymer like a spinner for a child's toy.

A DC generator generates an AC waveform that is mechanically rectified
by the commutator and brushes. Isn't it better to eliminate the comm
and brushes (maintenance and friction losses) and rectify with diodes?
That's what an alternator does, although its field is rotating while
the DC motor/generator field is stationary.

Doesn't an alternator need a voltage on the field to make voltage and
then you regulate the field to regulate the output?

I guess the choice would be up to the OP and his design to store/use
the end product.

An alternator (or, for that matter, a DC generator) need some magnetic
field to sweep windings through. There's usually enough residual
magnetic field in the iron from earlier running to get things started.
The alternator on my standby-power set does this. If the residual
is too small or gone, you gotta "flash" the machine with a brief
current pulse from a storage battery to restore the residual.

Superman would use kryptonite instead.

Yeah I have a 4000 watt standby AC generator that rely's on residual
magnetism. There are two types a brushed type (through which you would
flash the field with a 6 volt lantern battery) and a non-brushed type
that I forget at the moment how you get it going when the residual is
gone. But I can almost 99.9% guaranty you that if I remove the field
connection on my Harley that the alternator would produce zero
volktage.
Click to expand...
I fooled with a funny little generator my brother gave me. It had little power.
To get it started it had a separate brushed section to get DC. Push a little
button to get it going.

I'm thinking I want to build a wind generator.

Too bad around here, we have miles of rivers, but ZERO water driven
energy. They have new turbins out that you put in rivers and get
some energy. Yeasr ago they did not even think of that. They still
don't.

greg
 
In article <h4n74e$gh1$1@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, zekfrivo@zekfrivolous.com (GregS) wrote:
In article <30jjk7.prv.19.6@news.alt.net>, Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net
wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:41:17 -0400, Bryce <none@invalid.invalid>wrote:

Meat Plow wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:26:13 -0400, Bryce <none@invalid.invalid>wrote:

Meat Plow wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:33:35 +0200, Bart Bervoets
sunnylion@online.be>wrote:

Does anyone have any large permanent magnet motors that could be used to
build a few micro wind turbines?

Bart Bervoets

Find some old DC generators from autos before they started using an
alternator. Don't know what you would use for a prop maybe some custom
thing out of a polymer like a spinner for a child's toy.

A DC generator generates an AC waveform that is mechanically rectified
by the commutator and brushes. Isn't it better to eliminate the comm
and brushes (maintenance and friction losses) and rectify with diodes?
That's what an alternator does, although its field is rotating while
the DC motor/generator field is stationary.

Doesn't an alternator need a voltage on the field to make voltage and
then you regulate the field to regulate the output?

I guess the choice would be up to the OP and his design to store/use
the end product.

An alternator (or, for that matter, a DC generator) need some magnetic
field to sweep windings through. There's usually enough residual
magnetic field in the iron from earlier running to get things started.
The alternator on my standby-power set does this. If the residual
is too small or gone, you gotta "flash" the machine with a brief
current pulse from a storage battery to restore the residual.

Superman would use kryptonite instead.

Yeah I have a 4000 watt standby AC generator that rely's on residual
magnetism. There are two types a brushed type (through which you would
flash the field with a 6 volt lantern battery) and a non-brushed type
that I forget at the moment how you get it going when the residual is
gone. But I can almost 99.9% guaranty you that if I remove the field
connection on my Harley that the alternator would produce zero
volktage.

I fooled with a funny little generator my brother gave me. It had little power.
To get it started it had a separate brushed section to get DC. Push a little
button to get it going.

I'm thinking I want to build a wind generator.

Too bad around here, we have miles of rivers, but ZERO water driven
energy. They have new turbins out that you put in rivers and get
some energy. Yeasr ago they did not even think of that. They still
don't.
Click to expand...
Now I'm feeling awfull about all the nice big DC motors I,ve thrown away.

greg
 
GregS wrote:

<snip>
Too bad around here, we have miles of rivers, but ZERO water driven
energy. They have new turbins out that you put in rivers and get
some energy. Yeasr ago they did not even think of that. They still
don't.
Click to expand...
We had lots of municipal hydro electric generation until sometime in
the 1980s when most were dismantled, ostensibly under pressure from
environmental interests, the state DNR, and utility consolidation.

Michael
 
On 7/28/2009 6:27 AM Meat Plow spake thus:

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:20:03 -0700, David Nebenzahl
nobody@but.us.chickens>wrote:

On 7/27/2009 11:26 PM Dave Plowman (News) spake thus:

In article <4a6e47e0$0$7468$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com>,
David Nebenzahl <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote:

[someone else wrote]

A DC generator generates an AC waveform that is mechanically rectified
by the commutator and brushes.

No, an *alternator* does that (which is why it's so called). A generator
just generates plain old DC. Like the ones on old VWs. No diodes.

The clue is in the commutator. That is a mechanical switch which does
approx. the same as the diodes in an alternator. If the dynamo
intrinsically produced DC it would merely need slip rings as in an
alternator.

What in the world are you talking about? "Mechanical switch"?

The commutator is a set of rotary contacts. My VW (old 6-volt one) had a
generator with a commutator. Produced DC without any diodes.

The output voltage at the comm is DC not a 'switched by windings and
com bar AC'.
Click to expand...
So you agree that a generator (motor used in reverse, i.e., driven
instead of driving, with a commutator instead of slip rings) produces DC
without rectification, not AC, correct? That was my point.

I'm not disputing that the current direction in a generator reverses
with each set of commutator bars contacted by the brushes, so I guess in
that sense one could consider the commutator a "mechanical switch". I
just regard it as the way the thing is wired to produce DC.


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On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:57:02 GMT, zekfrivo@zekfrivolous.com (GregS)
wrote:

Too bad around here, we have miles of rivers, but ZERO water driven
energy. They have new turbins out that you put in rivers and get
some energy. Yeasr ago they did not even think of that. They still
don't.
Click to expand...
The problem with rivers is that without a falls, there's no vertical
head to run a high speed turbine or Pelton wheel:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelton_wheel>
This is usually solved by building a dam, which has profound
aesthetic, ecological, and environmental issues. It is possible to
use a fully immersed low speed turbine, but to get enough energy from
the usual slow flow rate and high volume river, the number of turbines
and/or their size tend to be large. For example:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan_turbine>

Also:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_turbine>
<http://www.homepower.com/basics/hydro/>

Another problem is that the power output of the water turbine is
directly proportional to the head and to the flow rate. Unlike the
wind turbine, where the output is proportional to the cube of the air
speed, water power generators tend to become very large at higher
power outputs. Where the flow rate is minimal, the usual solution is
a higher dam.

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In article <mteu65h6kkbgn89s18faig1opo1m1lb2d3@4ax.com>, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:57:02 GMT, zekfrivo@zekfrivolous.com (GregS)
wrote:

Too bad around here, we have miles of rivers, but ZERO water driven
energy. They have new turbins out that you put in rivers and get
some energy. Yeasr ago they did not even think of that. They still
don't.

The problem with rivers is that without a falls, there's no vertical
head to run a high speed turbine or Pelton wheel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelton_wheel
This is usually solved by building a dam, which has profound
aesthetic, ecological, and environmental issues. It is possible to
use a fully immersed low speed turbine, but to get enough energy from
the usual slow flow rate and high volume river, the number of turbines
and/or their size tend to be large. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan_turbine

Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_turbine
http://www.homepower.com/basics/hydro/

Another problem is that the power output of the water turbine is
directly proportional to the head and to the flow rate. Unlike the
wind turbine, where the output is proportional to the cube of the air
speed, water power generators tend to become very large at higher
power outputs. Where the flow rate is minimal, the usual solution is
a higher dam.
Click to expand...
There are problems with everything. Here is what is being done tomorrow.

http://www.hydrogreenenergy.com/technology.html


greg
 
In article <h4ni5i$iik$3@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, zekfrivo@zekfrivolous.com (GregS) wrote:
In article <mteu65h6kkbgn89s18faig1opo1m1lb2d3@4ax.com>, Jeff Liebermann
jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:57:02 GMT, zekfrivo@zekfrivolous.com (GregS)
wrote:

Too bad around here, we have miles of rivers, but ZERO water driven
energy. They have new turbins out that you put in rivers and get
some energy. Yeasr ago they did not even think of that. They still
don't.

The problem with rivers is that without a falls, there's no vertical
head to run a high speed turbine or Pelton wheel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelton_wheel
This is usually solved by building a dam, which has profound
aesthetic, ecological, and environmental issues. It is possible to
use a fully immersed low speed turbine, but to get enough energy from
the usual slow flow rate and high volume river, the number of turbines
and/or their size tend to be large. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan_turbine

Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_turbine
http://www.homepower.com/basics/hydro/

Another problem is that the power output of the water turbine is
directly proportional to the head and to the flow rate. Unlike the
wind turbine, where the output is proportional to the cube of the air
speed, water power generators tend to become very large at higher
power outputs. Where the flow rate is minimal, the usual solution is
a higher dam.

There are problems with everything. Here is what is being done tomorrow.

http://www.hydrogreenenergy.com/technology.html
Click to expand...
I thinks it allready been planned. These things can be installed near existing river lock dams
which will not affect river traffic.

greg
 
zekfrivo@zekfrivolous.com (GregS) wrote in
news:h4nj56$iik$4@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu:

In article <h4ni5i$iik$3@usenet01.srv.cis.pitt.edu>,
zekfrivo@zekfrivolous.com (GregS) wrote:
In article <mteu65h6kkbgn89s18faig1opo1m1lb2d3@4ax.com>, Jeff
Liebermann
jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:57:02 GMT, zekfrivo@zekfrivolous.com (GregS)
wrote:

Too bad around here, we have miles of rivers, but ZERO water driven
energy. They have new turbins out that you put in rivers and get
some energy. Yeasr ago they did not even think of that. They still
don't.

The problem with rivers is that without a falls, there's no vertical
head to run a high speed turbine or Pelton wheel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelton_wheel
This is usually solved by building a dam, which has profound
aesthetic, ecological, and environmental issues. It is possible to
use a fully immersed low speed turbine, but to get enough energy from
the usual slow flow rate and high volume river, the number of
turbines and/or their size tend to be large. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan_turbine

Also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_turbine
http://www.homepower.com/basics/hydro/

Another problem is that the power output of the water turbine is
directly proportional to the head and to the flow rate. Unlike the
wind turbine, where the output is proportional to the cube of the air
speed, water power generators tend to become very large at higher
power outputs. Where the flow rate is minimal, the usual solution is
a higher dam.

There are problems with everything. Here is what is being done
tomorrow.

http://www.hydrogreenenergy.com/technology.html

I thinks it allready been planned. These things can be installed near
existing river lock dams which will not affect river traffic.

greg
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better to use nuclear powerplants.

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Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
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