Nano-hydro, at best. Collect the amount of rain that sluices off into a bucket, and assume a water head of 1/2 the vertical dimension of the panel. That's the top end of the amount of energy you could expect to collect, at 100% efficiency.
You'd get more energy if you actually did collect the runoff, and run it through real nano hydro, because then you can use a much higher average height since most solar panels don't touch the ground. -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
