Out and about exploring the countryside this weekend and stumbled upon these two cool things.
This I thought was a cool looking wind turbine. If I translated the information sign about it correctly, it said it averages a yearly output of 50W/m2. Not sure if that sounds right or not. I'm not up to date on my Estonian wind turbine engineering words. But anyway, I think it's a cool looking wind turbine and I like the natural log base which you can climb to the top of for a great view!
Then I ran across this by accident and thought it was even more interesting.
"A Hydraulic Ram is a pump that uses the momentum of flowing water as an energy source. This pump was designed and built by Friedrich Johanson to supply his farm with water. It has been working since 1939. Every 24 hours it pumps 5 cubic meters of water into a water tank that is located 30 meters higher than the pump itself." It then goes on to explain the hydraulic ram was originally invented by a French guy in 1780, it operates automatically and requires no maintenance, etc....
This I thought was a cool looking wind turbine. If I translated the information sign about it correctly, it said it averages a yearly output of 50W/m2. Not sure if that sounds right or not. I'm not up to date on my Estonian wind turbine engineering words. But anyway, I think it's a cool looking wind turbine and I like the natural log base which you can climb to the top of for a great view!
Then I ran across this by accident and thought it was even more interesting.
"A Hydraulic Ram is a pump that uses the momentum of flowing water as an energy source. This pump was designed and built by Friedrich Johanson to supply his farm with water. It has been working since 1939. Every 24 hours it pumps 5 cubic meters of water into a water tank that is located 30 meters higher than the pump itself." It then goes on to explain the hydraulic ram was originally invented by a French guy in 1780, it operates automatically and requires no maintenance, etc....