Ask the Renewable Energy Guru

MICRO HYDRO INSTALLATION
Renewable Energy Tips,Techniques and Advice

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Repairing the D&H Canal in Cuddebackville to hold water once again.

›
Affiliate member of The Delaware & Hudson Transportation Heritage Council www.dhthc.org Robert J.Honders, Sr., is the Neversink Va...
3 comments:
Sunday, March 31, 2019

Repairing our hydro power dam in pictures.

›
We finally got around to repairing the 1820's stone and cement dam that had been holding a very small impoundment (1000 gal) of water f...
3 comments:
Saturday, August 15, 2015

Approaching two years of grid storage operation.

›
To date we have accumulated about 40,000 kWh stored excess in the grid after almost 2 years of grid connected operation while powering 2 ho...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Turbine RPM / Valve Control with Programmable Logic (Arduino)

›
A small niobium magnet attached (tape works) to the turbine/generator shaft creates a narrow pulse at pin 2 of the Arduino for each revolu...
1 comment:
Saturday, March 29, 2014

BMH Documentation (Draft)

›
BMH Power Plant Engineers Operating Manual August 2014 Robert J. Honders Sr. C.E. Summary A micro hydro t...
4 comments:

Ask the Renewable Energy Guru: Matching Impeller diameter, head, and generator RPM in a Pump as Turbine Micro Hydro

›
Ask the Renewable Energy Guru: Matching Impeller diameter, head, and generator RPM in a Pump as Turbine Micro Hydro http://energyindepende...
1 comment:
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Matching Impeller diameter, head, and generator RPM in a Pump as Turbine Micro Hydro

›
Mike from Vermont said "...there is an existing dam which is in good shape (built by the state many decades ago), with  about 40’...
2 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Rob
Cuddebackville, New York, United States
I am a retired electronics engineer, educator, businessman and builder of micro hydro installations for fun and sometimes even profit. This one uses a pump/motor as a turbine/generator using a 200 ft waterfall in our back yard. It is currently producing 15KW. I will be tweaking it to take advantage of greater winter flows. It's not the product, but the process... I enjoy doing the most with the least. So this renewable energy source cost less than $2 per watt of capacity not counting any labor and engineering.
View my complete profile