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Serious Microhydro: Water Power Solutions from the Experts
Waterpower is the largest source of renewable energy in the world today, and microhydro is a mature, proven technology that can provide clean, inexpensive, renewable energy with little or no impact on the environment.
Serious Microhydro brings you dozens of firsthand stories of energy independence covering a complete range of systems, from household pressure sites to higher pressure installations capable of powering a farm, business, or small neighborhood. Topics include:
Low head and medium head sites AC-only systems as well as ones using a battery/inverter subsystem Stand alone power supply or grid intertie setups Hybrid systems (combined with photovoltaics or wind)
With all the variables involved in microhydro, there is no “typical” system. These case studies represent the most comprehensive collection of knowledge and experience available for tailoring an installation to meet the needs of a site and its owner or operators. If you are considering building a system, you are bound to find a wealth of creative solutions appropriate to your own circumstances.
Serious Microhydro shows how scores of people are achieving a high standard of living from local energy sources with a minimal ecological footprint. It has particular appeal to homeowners, teachers, renewable energy professionals, activists, and decision makers who want to understand the technology from a “hands-on” perspective.
Scott Davis is an award-winning renewable energy project developer with decades of experience operating, installing, designing, selling, and teaching microhydro technology. He is a founder and president of Friends of Renewable Energy BC, and the author of Microhydro: Clean Power From Water.
Serious Microhydro brings you dozens of firsthand stories of energy independence covering a complete range of systems, from household pressure sites to higher pressure installations capable of powering a farm, business, or small neighborhood. Topics include:
Low head and medium head sites AC-only systems as well as ones using a battery/inverter subsystem Stand alone power supply or grid intertie setups Hybrid systems (combined with photovoltaics or wind)
With all the variables involved in microhydro, there is no “typical” system. These case studies represent the most comprehensive collection of knowledge and experience available for tailoring an installation to meet the needs of a site and its owner or operators. If you are considering building a system, you are bound to find a wealth of creative solutions appropriate to your own circumstances.
Serious Microhydro shows how scores of people are achieving a high standard of living from local energy sources with a minimal ecological footprint. It has particular appeal to homeowners, teachers, renewable energy professionals, activists, and decision makers who want to understand the technology from a “hands-on” perspective.
Scott Davis is an award-winning renewable energy project developer with decades of experience operating, installing, designing, selling, and teaching microhydro technology. He is a founder and president of Friends of Renewable Energy BC, and the author of Microhydro: Clean Power From Water.
336 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2010
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Scott Davis
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Please see: Scott Davis
Scott Davis is an award-winning renewable energy project developer with decades of experience operating, installing, designing, selling and teaching about microhydro technology. He is the founder and president of Yalakom Appropriate Technology, and the author of Microhydro: Clean Air From Water. Scott lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
From Amazon:
Scott Davis dropped out of graduate school in 1976 to work on, among other things, a village scale hydroelectric project in a remote area west of Lillooet BC.
In the years that followed, he used, designed, constructed, installed, repaired and generally fooled around with the many microhydro systems that sprang up in the area.
In 1995, he and his wife and partner, Bonnie Mae Newsmall, founded Yalakom Appropriate Technology, an award winning renewable energy project development company.
Their projects were featured as case studies by the Canadian Renewable Energy Guide, in RETSCREEN -- Canada's renewable energy software and in Microhydropower Systems: A Buyers' Guide and the Commercial Solar Water Heating Buyers' Guide, published by Natural Resources Canada.
It soon became clear that the significant barriers to renewable energy investment in BC and Canada could best be surmounted by a nonprofit organization. To that end, in 2000, Scotty and Bonnie Mae founded Friends of Renewable Energy BC, which continues to find market solutions for our environmental problems. FOREBC's projects have included a market study of solar pool heating,a self-directed tour of existing renewable energy technology in Victoria, a renewable energy lecture series and a very successful microhydro workshop. More projects are planned, including the Streamworks project described in Chapter 49 of his new book, Serious Microhydro: Water Power Solutions from the Experts.
Today, Scotty enjoys working with Friends of Renewable Energy BC and life, especially the gardening, in Victoria BC.
Please see: Scott Davis
Scott Davis is an award-winning renewable energy project developer with decades of experience operating, installing, designing, selling and teaching about microhydro technology. He is the founder and president of Yalakom Appropriate Technology, and the author of Microhydro: Clean Air From Water. Scott lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
From Amazon:
Scott Davis dropped out of graduate school in 1976 to work on, among other things, a village scale hydroelectric project in a remote area west of Lillooet BC.
In the years that followed, he used, designed, constructed, installed, repaired and generally fooled around with the many microhydro systems that sprang up in the area.
In 1995, he and his wife and partner, Bonnie Mae Newsmall, founded Yalakom Appropriate Technology, an award winning renewable energy project development company.
Their projects were featured as case studies by the Canadian Renewable Energy Guide, in RETSCREEN -- Canada's renewable energy software and in Microhydropower Systems: A Buyers' Guide and the Commercial Solar Water Heating Buyers' Guide, published by Natural Resources Canada.
It soon became clear that the significant barriers to renewable energy investment in BC and Canada could best be surmounted by a nonprofit organization. To that end, in 2000, Scotty and Bonnie Mae founded Friends of Renewable Energy BC, which continues to find market solutions for our environmental problems. FOREBC's projects have included a market study of solar pool heating,a self-directed tour of existing renewable energy technology in Victoria, a renewable energy lecture series and a very successful microhydro workshop. More projects are planned, including the Streamworks project described in Chapter 49 of his new book, Serious Microhydro: Water Power Solutions from the Experts.
Today, Scotty enjoys working with Friends of Renewable Energy BC and life, especially the gardening, in Victoria BC.
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