Annie Hope :Welcome to Permies.com and our sister site Richsoil.com,With over 35,000 Fellow Members World-wide -you can come here often to find someone who
wants to talk about what you want to talk about ! Let me take a couple of small bites at your questions !
We
should always try HARD to use the energy in the form we find it to avoid the inescapable power losses from changing that energy from heat to mechanical energy,
or electrical energy ! ( the problem IS the solution ! )
Compost can keep the floor area in a green house warm, or used for domestic purposes ! Warning you need lots
and lots of compostable materials with alternating piles of
compost coming 'on-line' at different times. Compost can also help keep a Methane cooker working,
For looking at practical methane generation i like these
people ! ///// Link below :
http://solarcities.eu/projects.
And at
Facebook at
Solar CITIES Biogas innovators and practitioners
Do a google search for Hydraulic Ram Pumps, The best in the world seem to come from OZ and Canada, with both units reaching their efficiencies through
different routes. This meets my criteria of using the kinetic energy of falling water to life water where it needs to be. This does not mean that if you have the
opportunity to hold water behind a dam and use it at the times you choose that there is something wrong with using that resource even if you have to turn
water power into ether mechanical or electrical power that there is anything wrong with that; only that
you have to ''do the math''
Windmills that use the power of the wind to make mechanical energy is more efficient pumping water than that windmill making Electrical power to run a
motor to turn a
pump ! That being said, if you already have the batteries, it is nice to remember an Almost Universal rule that says then the sun isn't shining
the wind IS Blowing !
I hope you find this useful and timely ! For the Good of the Crafts Big AL
