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Bicycle powered Water pump from 90 foot well. MayaPedal appropriate technology Permaculture

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Uploaded by on Sep 15, 2009

This is a bead rope tube old bicycle well pumps water from a 90 foot well that pumps ten gallons of water a minute. This can provide water to a small community or a family.
There is a really rad Nonprofit called Share The Seeds. They are going to start help build these types of appropriate and others like composting Toilets, Rocket Stoves and more.

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  • is that a coffee plantation? it is coffee, it looks so nice

  • That was cool =D

  • wow.. genius!! essential invention for an essential product

  • I'd love to see the plans for the more complex engineering, since I'm still learning the systems. However I do know that if you reverse your gears (turn the large one which turns a small one) then you can quadruple your efficiency instead of quartering it. Cheers!

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