12-06-20 08:36 August Abolins wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Hydro went off - agai
Howdy! August,

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 > Down the road from the Lock and Dam I worked at was a Hydroelectric Plant.

 AA> [snip]

 > I was at work one day when a towboat locked through carrying a Hydro Unit
 > that was built in France that would be installed in Vanceburg, Kentucky.
 > It was a HUGE Unit, and that one unit probably would produce more electricty
 > than the eight units in the nearby Hydro Plant could.

 > Just thought I'd jump in and make a comment.

 AA> My town has an old water "mill" that has been tried to be converted to
 AA> a proper hydro-producing source.  Not enough gov't/private monies could
 AA> sustain the project. It was eventually scrapped.  Sad, really. It could
 AA> have been a tourist draw if branded well.

 At one of Indiana's State Parks there is a Old Mill.
Visitors can purchase bags of ground up Corn (Meal) or Wheat (Flour), I can't
recall which grain they grind up at that Park..

 I'd think it would take a set of Gears to increase the Speed the Mill Wheel
 rotates at to turn a Generator so it would create 50 (60) Cycle/Second
A.C. Voltage, as a Mill Wheel doesn't rotate very fast, maybe 3 full turns
per Minute I'd guess.

73 de Ed W9ODR                   .                .


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