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SteveV

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Bota 2400
Need a large tractor to pull my portable water turbine and stepup transformer around New England. Also needed: rough country manlift (with insulated section tested) to hook my phase wires to the grid. Anybody have any ideas how to sell to California?? SteveV
 
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Steve,

I don't have any answers to your questions, but would sure like to hear more about your portable water turbine.
What kind of runner, flow and head required, output power, generator type, ????????/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

You might take a look at "sky hooks" /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
 
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<font color=blue>Anybody have any ideas how to sell to California??</font color=blue>

Sign me up for a dozen bushels!!! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Our situation is about to go from bad to worse. Just heard on the news tonight that the temperatures will be heading up into the "I-gotta-turn-on-my-air-conditioner" range this weekend. Predictions are that that will throw us back into the rolling blackouts again. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Then they dropped the other shoe -- the water content of our snowpack this year is about 40 - 60 percent of normal. That means a bad year coming for hydro-electric power. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

We can't seem to win for losing out here. It sounds like a lot of you guys have both electricity and snow to spare. Anybody want to work out some kind of trade? /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Oh, and by the way -- last night the story was about how California has the fastest-growing population in the USA (and no, not just from breeding). Go figure.

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<font color=red>the temperatures will be heading up into the "I-gotta-turn-on-my-air-conditioner" range this weekend</font color=red>

Thanks Harv. Oh did I tell you we got 4" of snow yesterday? But thats OK, it may hit 40deg today.

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By the sounds you folks could use some snow...fair is fair. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
And I wonder who been playing w/that jet stream out here. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

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Harv, too add insult to injury here, Oregon's snowpak is 25% of normal. Hydro-electric power production is not going to meet state needs, let alone California's demands for it. Klamath basin farmers will (first time since 1905) NOT get any water from the water reclamation project...it all goes to the suckers, and eagles....according to the Fish & Game. Farmers are going to be out of business...period.
Brother's ponds over in LaGrande Oregon are both dry, he doesn't have a handle yet on what he is going to do for his cattle.
What's a little air conditioning? Our fore-fathers never had it, and they survived. How about living in coastal Georgia w/o air? Nah, don't even want to think about that one!
 
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I've had to buy a variable pitch turbine. The first year I was undersized and the tail race scoured a hole that undermined the dam. Now so much energy is removed the water lands like pouring a glass of milk. The Mountain Reservior on the West River near Jamaica VT is a favorite with 100ft + on spring runoff. I hope the concrete holding my headstock valve developes full strength before the runoff. Otherwise somebody is going to be mad about the hole in the bottom of the dam. Make sure your canoe isn't tied to anything when we fire that puppy up(it'll be 70 ft in the air after the water is gone) SteveV
 
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Just in case anyone hasn't seen runoff New Hampshire style, here's a picture of the Mad River at Campton NH during last year's runoff. Shot from the Rt. 175 overpass. Normally the water is 10-15 ft lower on the dicharge side of the dam. As a point of interest- the mill building is for sale that uses the dam for its hydro power. The pond is pretty silted up though. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif SteveV
 

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