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DIY: Make Electricity Using Your Backyard Stream

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:22:00 +0000

The main idea is simple: find yourself a river, make sure its falling abruptly enough to have the necessary speed and velocity to spin your turbine, and make the necessary piping and flow control system.

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Free Electricity by Using Yoghurt Pots

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:42:58 +0000

John Gilmartin, Scottish inventor, has found out a way to harness the free electricity from his backyard water stream near Staveley, in Cumbria, by using used youghurt pots and with the help of PhD engineering student Mr Cattley, now hopes to see the invention in the shops by the end of 2008.

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An Interesting Approach to a Wave Powered Electricity Generator

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:25:53 +0000

I received a message today from a reader suggesting a particular website. I read the information on that particular website, and there was presented a hybrid energy producing system by using the waves as a "catalyst" for the operation of a diesel-powered generator.

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