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echo: coffee_klatsch
to: ED VANCE
from: KURT WEISKE
date: 2020-12-09 07:09:00
subject: Re: Hydro went off - agai

-=> Ed Vance wrote to August Abolins <=-

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

It could charge a battery, which would then be used to provide current
into the grid. There are lots of applications where you use
self-generated electricity during peak times.



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