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.
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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.
My town has an old water "mill" that has been tried to be converted to
a proper hydro-producing source. Not enough gov't/private monies could sustain the project. It was eventually scrapped. Sad, really. It could 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 . .
... Scientists can now make meat from plants. Cows have done that forever.
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