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Microhydro: Clean Power from Water
Microhydro features the smallest version of the renewable engery technology dubbed the simplest, most reliable and least expensive way to generate power off grid. Highly illustrated and practical, it is a complete guide to designing and constructing reliable hydroelectric power systems.
176 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2003
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Scott Davis
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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.
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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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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
March 7, 2010
This book is written on a sixth grade reading level, and that's a good thing. It's just what I needed to see whether my property is right for microhydro power, without having to wade through dense chapters of information I don't need yet.
Go to my blog to read the full review of Microhydro, including information on assessing the flow, assessing the head, and estimating the power at your potential site.
Go to my blog to read the full review of Microhydro, including information on assessing the flow, assessing the head, and estimating the power at your potential site.
March 24, 2009
This book is a thorough treatise on microhydro, small scale electrical production with water. With it, you could go a long way towards planning and executing your own microhydro project, or at the very least identifying whether you have a site suitable for this kind of power production. It explains all the variables, how to survey a site, how to calculate the electrical potential of the site, and tells you about materials choices.
Anyone with a stream should read it.
Anyone with a stream should read it.
July 15, 2013
I thought the level was a little too basic to be useful to me. If you don't know anything about electricity or hydro power, this book might be a good place to start. It is written for the tinkerer or hobbyist. If you have any technical training beyond high school, you can probably learn what you need to know from a website such as the one by Practical Action: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...
December 26, 2021
A pretty good book for those interested in residential microhydro applications. Focuses on application and case study applications rather than a straight forwards how-to approach.
February 28, 2009
Extremely infomative!!! Has abundant information on all sorts of microhydro systems. Great for everyone interested in the topic!
January 3, 2013
Good primer, a little light on info good for site specific problems. You will be a well educated lay person but not an expert.
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