Hello all,
I’m Tony – living in the Pennine area of the UK.
I’m really interested in sustainable energy and using the power of nature to help with todays problems, without recourse to the ‘easy’ technological modern route.
For anyone interested, I have just designed and built my own ram pump
For those who don’t know what this means, its a pump which uses a steady fall of water (in this case, a dammed stream) to pump a small proportion of that water to a lot greater height.
The ‘fall’ driving my pump is about 5 mtrs, yet I’m pumping to over 42 mtrs delivery head and over a distance of 240+ meters
At this height, I’m delivering sufficient water for the daily needs of 12 horses with PLENTY of spare capacity. The next step is to plumb the overflow into the well which feed the farmhouse – which always ‘struggles’ in the middle of summer.
My reckoning is that I can ‘spare’ over 1500 litres a day, without any degradation in the supply for the horses.
Best of all, my pump uses no electricity.
It also uses no wind or solar but steadily pumps 24/7
My long tern plan is to link it into a much larger storage tank at a height where it can deliver a downward ‘on demand’ head sufficient to drive a small turbine.
For anyone interested, I have put a small video on YouTube at :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRg4OsQ-kv8