Does it store electric?
What is the power output ?
It can take a few hours to charge some of my batteries. Do I have to stand at the river bank for all this time ?
Streuth a few answers to the bleeding obvious would be a big help
Battery capacity 5000mAh
From the generator 5W, but it mentions 2A USB port, so 10W from the battery.
I'm sure with a nice video a pink unicorn that farts rainbows would find backers on kickstarter
How does this improve over a solar panel?
Works at night?
If you have a convenient river, thermal extraction for space heating has some good points: 24 hour operation, relatively low tec. device, low visual impact, displaces other fuels and some electricity.....
Now if only I could convince the EA.....
The elephant in the room with that is the cost of running a heat exchange pump. I've heard a few horror stories.
heh heh Down in one of the Channel Isles they had a water wheel on a stream running to the sea that as far as I could see just ran a small illuminated sign. Of course that was many years ago. brian
For some reason it states a maximum of 4hrs use per day so you only need your waders for 4 hrs.
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You can put it under the kitchen tap and charge your phone for "free".
Why mess around with hydropower when you can have a butane powered fuel cell?
Tim
/- show quoted text - Why mess around with hydropower when you can have a butane powered fuel cell? /q
'To be delivered Feb 2016'........
Jim K
Currently delayed by stupid legal argument over whether "kraftwork" (German for "power plant") is a copyrighted name. Besides, who's in a hurry? ;-)
Tim
After four hours the battery is disharged and the 5W of power presumably drops to the odd mA or so that the rotor would produce.
Not sure what the "line Voltage" is needed for, if the thing is so enviromentally friendly will it blow up if plugged into a fossil generated power source?.
It suggests the blurb has been cut and pasted from a genuine product of some description.
It would no doubt make a nice accompaniment to the dashboard mounted car bettery chargers so beloved of the true believer.
HN
Isn't the problem that it will cool the river and destroy ingenious wildlife that lives in it.
Probably the generator is so inefficient that it gets too hot in use.
Well , Yes, for a low , low cost ;-)
/Isn't the problem that it will cool the river and destroy ingenious wildlife that lives in it. /q
If it's really ingenious it'll adapt.....
Jim K
Certainly something they would consider. Lots of industrial sites are found on the banks of relatively small streams. If they all took out enough energy for their space heating.....
My particular stream benefits from the output of treated sewage at Luton so warmer than most:-)
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If the wildlife is that ingenious, I am sure it will find a way out...
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