On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Dave Long <dave.l...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > (same goes for hydro: we use kilometer drops in the alps for power > arbitrage. low head power generation is theoretically interesting, but if > one has the vertical and the metallurgy it's much easier to just use them > than to needlessly fight the exponents)
I was reading the latest issue of National Geographic and came across a mention of a table-top hydro electric generator that is about 3-gallon in size (in the Shangri La article). What is the current state of backyard hydro electric generators? Are they well packaged and as easy to use as a two-stroke diesel generator? S. -- "You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel." -- Homer J. Simpson