Thanks everyone for your comments. To answer some of the questions raised:
I desire to sell 100% of the power. Using both my property and the neighbors I will have 145m head and taking the contours of the land into account, 1,900m of pipe. I would like to keep the budget low with a DIY approach where possible. I have a 200 series highhoe which should help keep the cost of laying pipe down to a minimum. A few questions that I still have are: 1. How do I ball park the cost of the project. (What are the different components that I will need? Turbine, generator, etc.) 2. What type of pipe is needed? Will plastic pipe work? (according to Joseph Hartvigsen's data I'm guessing I will need about 50cm diameter pipe.) 3. Does anyone know an approximate amount BCHydro would pay for my electricity? Without that figure I'm just shooting in the dark. Their office told me it was decided on a contract basis so could not venture a guess. Thanks, Lawrence Balisky -----Original Message----- From: Cesar Soriano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [microhydro] I have a stream flowing through my yard, what can I do with it? Lawrence, you have a very nice site specially if this is an abrupt fall sinse you did not mention the slope of the stream. with some simple estimates, at 95 meters head and at the average flow, you can put up a 200 kWs micro hydro power plant and at the lowest of 0.21 cms, you have a firm plant capacity of 97 kWs. These are just estimates using an efficiency of 50% to consider losses. You can even generate more if you involve the property of your good neighbor. The grid you are referring to must be what is called a singel wire earth return (swer) electric line. you can ask the utility maintaining the line the voltage rating of that system. first thing, do you plan to sell the generated energy? or generate only for your own consumption? regards. _________________________________________________________________ Designer Mail isn't just fun to send, it's fun to receive. Use special stationery, fonts and colors. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN� Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Does your company feature in the microhydro business directory at http://microhydropower.net/directory ? If not, please register free of charge and be exposed to the microhydro community world wide! NOTE: The advertisements in this email are added by Yahoogroups who provides us with free email group services. The microhydro-group does not endorse products or support the advertisements in any way. More information on micro hydropower at http://microhydropower.net To unsubscribe: send empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/microhydro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
