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 . .


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Hello Ed!

** On Tuesday 08.12.20 - 21:50, Ed Vance wrote to August Abolins:

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..

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.

Yes, that was all factored in. But they gave up when they
calculated that the investment in the mods wouldn't pay back
within a year. Something like that needs to be extrapolated
to 5 or 10 years - especially if the majority of money is
gov't handouts for "tourism".

But.. at the same time, the building that housed the mill is
next to a larger building (was probably a storage facility)
that is now a set of apartments. Maybe the noise of a
generator would be an issue - but I don't remember that being
one of the concerns.

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Ed Vance wrote to August Abolins <=-

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.

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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August, It looked like I didn't recall writing messages in Coffee Katsch before.

I have problems with Short Term memory and now there's problems of Long Term stuff

I remember reading "Be careful what you write on the Internet because it will always be available for others to read years later.
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Hello Ed Vance!

** On Monday 11.03.24 - 20:37, Ed Vance wrote to me:

August, It looked like I didn't recall writing messages in
Coffee Katsch before.

I can't prove it, but I think you have popped in here before,
years ago.

I have problems with Short Term memory and now there's
problems of Long Term stuff

Don't worry about it. We tend to remember only what's important
to us.

I remember reading "Be careful what you write on the
Internet because it will always be available for others to
read years later.

That is so true. But fidonet echoes are quite public too, even
to the casual non-BBS member. Early in the game, echomail was
restricted within the bbs community and often sysops would only
allow reading an echo if you were a registered user of their
BBS. But now, many BBS echo bases are fully viewable and
searchable via internet.

I would have preferred a non-google-scrapable fidonet. But the
cat is long out of the bag so to speak.

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I wrote the post to You because I have been reading Coffee Klatsch messages posted in 2020 and saw many of mine in this echo back then.

I was just fess'in up.
Aka repenting about what I earlier typed here this year.
DUH
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