December 24, 2008 by Brad Hart
Filed under Green Energy
On top of my regularly scheduled weekly post I have decided to start offering a mid-week article from elsewhere on the web. As it is pouring rain outside right now I got to thinking on small scale hydro-power and happened to see this article and thought I would share it with your.
Small Micro Hydro Electric Power Generator
By Juandy Liem
Hydro power depends on running water to turn the turbine and produce electricity. A small scale Hydro Power Generator is often called Micro Hydro Electric Generator. A Micro Hydro Plant usually produces electricity below 100kW.
Recent interest in Small Scale Hydro Plants as part of movements in producing more cleaner and greener energy has attracted many researches to study and develop many improvements in Micro Hydro Technology.
Micro Hydro Plants can produce useful amount of electricity even from just a small stream. For houses that has access to streams can consider to set up a Micro Hydro Plant to produce reliable electricity supply at lower cost than other renewable technology sources.
One main reason why many people turn to Hydro Electricity Plant is because it is a renewable energy, meaning it will not be depleted over time and it will consistently be replenished. It is also a clean energy source, as it does not emit any toxins. Other reason many turn to Micro Hydro Plants is because it’s relatively more cheaper than other green technologies in converting energy to electricity and can be used almost immediately when turned on to meet the demand for electricity.
How Does a Micro Hydro Plant Work?
This Water Powered Electricity Generator works by relying on Potential Energy that is contained in water that are stored in height. You may be wondering what is Potential Energy anyway? Well you can imagine it as gasoline in your car that is parked in your garage, it has a potential to move your car but your car is still parked in your garage, but once you start the engine the potential released into movements.
So, when the water falls down from height it converts the Potential Energy into Kinetic Energy. This Kinetic Energy will then turn the turbines. The internal mechanic in the turbine will then produce electricity for you.
For Small Hydro Plant (Micro Hydro Plant) it can converts about 60%-80% of Kinetic Energy into Electricity. If you’re really interested in creating your own Micro Hydro Electric Power you should read a book from a professional Author that’s been in the business for years…
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December 20, 2008 by Brad Hart
Filed under Green Housing
Finished interior of a straw bale constructed home
I have spent a lot of time thinking about alternative housing options once we are able to move and keep finding myself overwhelmed then coming back to I am going to have to wait and see what I can do with the property itself. I live in South East Ohio and likely will continue to do so at the very least no more than an hour or two away in Indiana or Kentucky. This limits some of the rather cool options I have seen. Some of the rather cool recycled shipping container housing seems to be far less green when you consider shipping the containers this far inland. If I could find one that was already close by, they would make good storage or a workshop though.
Looking at available materials that I might successfully use include recycled lumber, straw bale construction, earth sheltered, cob, or even concrete. Likely it will be a mixture of multiple materials since there is a likelihood I will be doing some of the work over time and some of it myself. I would love to hear about your experiences with these materials, especially if you live in Ohio.
it is my plan to talk about each of these types of construction over the coming weeks and hope to keep hearing your input. Thanks for this weeks financial assistance between this site and the others running these ad campaigns we ads have raised $61.00 dollars so far. You can continue to support our efforts by clicking on the pure play banner below. We make $0.95 cents for you filling out the quick entry consisting of entering an email address, pushing submit, choosing a password, checking the box you are over 18, then a pull-down menu giving the state you live in and pressing submit. The final step is choosing a screen name. This isn’t hard, just give them an email, give them a vague idea where you are, choose a screen name and press submit three times, nothing to buy and no newsletters to sign up for. Do those few things and you too can help us on our way to finding a greener lifestyle. I look forward to talking to you again in a few days.
Progress Towards Fixing the Truck
Progress Towards Fixing The Truck
$: 61.00 / 650.00 (9.38%)
December 13, 2008 by Brad Hart
Filed under The Hart Family
Hello, Green World! I am Brad Hart, and I want to thank you for stopping by Help the Hart’s Go Green. I am here to say I want my family to go green, but we have a lot of obstacles in our way right now. My wife Katy is out of work, we have a five we two kids, Liam is ten and Sarah was five weeks old twenty three hours ago. We live in a rental house without a lot of leeway for making changes physically. Until she has a steady job this is where we have to stay. Until we get some reliable transportation there isn’t steady work in her future.
As I said I want us to go green, but the transportation issue is the first obstacle we have to over come. I have a very environmentally unfriendly truck in need of repair. It is going to cost us nearly $650 dollars to get it fixed. I would rather keep it off the road than fix it since the puts it burns oil almost as badly as it burns gas. The question becomes how much to you want to keep it off the road? By our estimate her unemployment check will run out about the first of February. I need to have this truck fixed or be in something else by then. You can help. If you want to take this truck off the road, I either need enough money that I can fix it so she can find a job that will allow us to buy something different, cost $650. An older, yet more fuel efficient car will take between $1500 and $2500, call it $2500 to be safe. A newer fuel efficient and likely more reliable car is going to run $6000. A new small car will get an estimated 25/30 mpg range will run between $16,000 and $18,000. The Honda Fit seems to be the best in this category.
When it comes right down to it I don’t care about how fancy it is, only that it runs well, gets decent gas mileage, and isn’t a huge offense against the environment. I am not asking for donations, though i am set up to take them if you want to give them. If you have an old car you were thinking of donating I would gladly accept that too. We are just barely making it with my disability income, her unemployment, and what we can make blogging. I can’t afford the repairs currently, but what I can do is make it as easy as possible for you to start helping us go green.
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