FREE ELECTRICITY THE WATER WHEEL ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

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[iamcrazydave]

@AlternativePowerMan Thats exactly the point every bits helps. What baffles me is that they refuse to use this age old technology and put all their eggs in Wind or Solar, its utter madness to me? Thanks for the great comment all the best.

[AlternativePowerMan]

@magsib

Every bit helps is how I see it.

[iamcrazydave]

@hablerz Thanks for the comment. I am not sure on the science, but one thing I do recognise is that this is a 24/7 365 days a year renewable resource that is not being utilised and you really have to ask why the UK government is ignoring it in favour of wind? Why Why Why Why Why? All the best cheap as chips electricity.

[hablerz]

@magsib Small water wheels providing local electricity do not block the river and actually oxygenate the river. Since 7 percent of electricity is lost in transit on the power lines even 0.5 percent created in this way for the entire UK would equate to a massive amount of clean electricity as minimal energy would be lost in transit. We need to localise energy production as much as is feasable.

[iamcrazydave]

I shall. Thank you for the comments needless to say there may be bias in the book you refer to and lots of money being made by vested interests in wind. They however do not run 24/7 365 days of the year like a river does.

[magsib]

Well, download and read the book I mentioned earlier. The author is the Scientific Adivsor to the Dept of Energy & Climate Change and they are desperate to promote every bit of renewable energy they can. Rivers cannot provide more than the the amount of rain and the height of the hills allows. That's natural physics.

In Eng & Wales rivers might produce 600MW; an onshore windfarm produces 450MW, the proposed offshore wind farms will produce 25,500MW.

But you'll believe what you want to believe.

[iamcrazydave]

I really really do not believe them rivers run 24/7 and your trying to tell me that windmills will produce more than a water wheel check out the mennigriffiths waterwheel. Check out the history of them and what they used to power. Then tell me that they will only produce 0.5% and again who said that they would have to be on weirs only???

[magsib]

You might distrust them, but they are going out of their way to promote this type of hydropower, and 0.5% is the absolute maximum that could be generated. And the damage that would cause to the river environment is huge. You might not like fishing or "wealthy landowners", but surely you must appreciate healthy rivers? Read "Sustainable Energy without the hot air" (free download, type that in) by the guy who is DECC's chief science advisor.

[iamcrazydave]

Thanks for the comment. I have learnt to distrust anything the Environment agency says thanks very much. They still don't know the average amount of rainfall that could be collected off a roof in Wales. So their figuring out of % production would depend on lots of things, but I trust them not at all. All they are cared about is the fishing rights of wealthy landlowners. All the best

[magsib]

Crazy Dave

It is very easy to look at the flow over a weir and think about all the "wasted" energy. The Environment Agency recently did a survey of all 26000 weirs in England and Wales, and collectively they would only provide about half a percent of our electricity demand. But the damage that could cause to the river ecology and fish populations, especially such as salmon, sea trout, eels etc., is immense. If you care about rivers, you would not promote the construction of small hydro.