They must have discovered some new principle, 32 feet is all I've ever
heard of anyone sucking water up - and that's under ideal conditions.

Engineman


On Jan 12, 4:54�pm, spaco wrote:
Yes. �I'ts called "pumped hydro". �The impeller is in the pipe, but, as
another poster said, �they use excess capacity to suck the water up,
then use the gravity of that water to run the system as a generator.
The gain in the system comes from not having to have a separate "demand"
power plant that uses fossil fuels in the peak times.
� �There's one in Scotland, I think, that can generate several gigawatts
for about 3 hours at a time. �They use it right after national socker
games when EVERYONE (apparently) puts on an electric tea pot.
� �We have several similar systems here in the US, too.

Sure wish I had a 405 foot head of water out behind me! � I'd pump the
water up using a woodgas powered engine. �Like having a HUGE battery
that never goes dead.

Pete Stanaitis
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Andy Asberry wrote:
Water district pumps water from a lake 75 miles south to a local lake
405 feet higher. They propose to build a hydro generation plant on the
end of this pipeline before dumping it in the lake.

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