New Mills, Torrs hydro, Archimedes Screw

After months of preparation the screw finally turns

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• new
• mills
• hydro
• archimedes
• torrs
• derbyshire
• high
• peak
• sett
• goyt

[palmersperry]

That's not an Archimedes Screw being used for irrigation, that's one being used (the other way around!) for power generation ...

[jumper8000]

Nice to see that some one else can enjoy the benefits of doing things bawkwards

[keithhrutter]

One is planned near Newtown, Powys, rated 100kw.

[ddowd]

@pignanelli IT HAS FFS

[pignanelli]

If that's not a hideous accident waiting to happen, I don't know what is.  Did somebody think about putting some protective fencing around that thing?

[hitechguy18]

@kellou82

Hardly these are very fish friendly On the far side (Other Side away from the camera Top-Left) of the screw is a Fish Ladder chamber that anything that can swim can use it to swim lower level to higher level

[EmmLc]

omg this is so boringg!

[kellou82]

these are the start of a slow death to all our rivers, our rivers will be devoid of fish once the spawning grounds are silted over because all the flow is going through the heads, these are being built by companies wanting to make money off the green pound, they will end up killing off every other bit of life in the rivers over the next few yrs

[74VDC]

YOU NEED TO DROP THE SCIENCE CLASS, SEEMS YOU DON'T HAVE THE "FABRIC" FOR IT. iF YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND THIS...YOU ARE WASTING YOUR PROFESSOR'S TIME..AS WELL AS THOSE IN YOUR CLASS.

[lisaz0224]

This makes no sense!!!! How does this help with irrigation?? This is why I hate science class...