Water Vortex Power Plant. Schauberger

[city trader]

Austrian engineer Franz Zotlöterer:



The diameter of the vortex basin is 5 meters.
The head - difference between the two water levels - is 1.6 meters.

The turbine produced 50.000 kw/h in its first year of operation.

Construction cost was 57.000 Euro

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2007/06/water_vortex_drives_power_plan.html

While trying to find a method for aerating water without energy input, Austrian engineer Franz Zotlöterer stumbled across the idea of a mini-power plant which is simple to construct and has a turbine efficiency of 80% but which is safe for fish due to low turbine speed and improves water quality by oxygenation. Needless to say, he quickly applied for the patents. The technology can be applied with water drop as little as 0.7 meters. Zotlöterer's website suggests an idyllic installation along a modern stream that has had its meanders rudely obliterated in the interest of human civilization. His vision is to restore the health of the running water to where it was before human intervention led to reduced oxygenation due to laminar flows--while winning power at the same time.

[junglelord]

Is that not the most intelligent approach to hydroelectric power?


Natures way is the only way.

[LelaBear]

That's Brilliant! I am deeply impressed and knockin' my noggin cause I didn't think of it before! Let's spread this around, folks, this is the kind of information that can empower us. What a great way to develop community power systems and begin to break the grip of major utilities on our lifes. Simple, efficient, multi tasking and non-polluting! Just Brilliant!

Thanks for posting, I'm going to spread the word!

[junglelord]

Well I have good news and bad news.
The good news is this saves natural designs.

Living beside a large Hydro-electric dam and having lost towns, land, rapids, to its development, I can say that had they implemented this design nothing would have been lost. Dams are death.

Well it turns out that the most massive falls in Western Africa, in Gabon, is going to be dammed.

http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1104-gabon.html

Dispite the fact it is in a National Park.
Its devestating news.
China development and lined pockets of those in charge.
No attempt to follow a previous eviormental impact assesment by the french government, which used to be the overseer of Gabon before its independence. The report suggested a dam further up a connecting river.

Why not make these elegent designs which do not interrupt?
Because Man is evil, Big Business hates Mother Earth.
I swear.

the Industrial Military Complex, Governments, money = bad news

[James D]