tiny turbine

[spluger]

just a thought

would it be possible to fit a tiny water turbine to the header tank water supply so that when the bath / shower is used a
small amount of electric is made to heat the DHW tank via a custom immersion heater

after all its 3bar and 15Ltr/min

might be classed as stealing from the water company!!

[dhaslam]

A simpler way is to  use the voltage  on the telephone line, don't think it would heat the  water though.   

[billi]

I have a self powered water filter attached to my kitchen tap , producing Ozone to desinfrct the water ( just in case )
needs about 2 bar preasure to allow the inbuilt waterturbine to generate the power for producing the ozone

Billi

[johnrae]

Fact : consuming power from telephone line is illegal

[chickensoup]

       What they don't know doesn't hurt   

[Ivan]

Fact : consuming power from telephone line is illegal

Uh, I think all of my phones do that!

[stuartcraig]

I was cruising around the internet last night and found these DIY solar panels. They seem a little pricey but if the quality is their then I don't mind paying a little extra. What do you think about their solar tubes: -spam link removed by admin - AND your last warning - no more spam or you'll get an instant lifetime ban!

Note- in my experience there are no higher quality panels available than the "house brand" - if you are foolish enough to think that paying extra to profiteers will get you anything better, you're in for an expensive shock!

[desperate]

Stuartcraig,

I think Navitron et al may well take umbrage at your plug, maybe you could delete the link

Desperate

[Nicedad]

I'm with that, looks like spam Martin!!!

[desperate]

INCOMING

Keep yer head down nicedad

Desp

[martin]

Oh what a surprise! Just edited the above spam post, administered warning, and then checked his previous posts.......... one previous post, edited for spam linking!

[desperate]

Hoooeeee


he's gone.

Nice one Martin

Desp

[martin]

For the record, it was a very dodgy sounding company based in Cheshire who were punting systems by what would appear to be a totally invented company, and their panels (unlike the house brand) are on NO approved lists, yet are ludicrously expensive!)

A little further googling finds that the website that was spammed (Cheshire-based) have at least two identical websites offering the same stuff - claims of panels made in Switzerland would appear to be false - avoid at all costs (the firm's address also appears to be an undistinguished terrace house in Hoole)...........a little more Googling confirms my suspicion - there's a third business at the same address - a "web design company" that boasts that a certain "Stuart L......" has 10 years web design experience, and sports yet another "off the same template as the other two" typical scamsters website..........
Now what a complete coincidence that the person I nuked was also called "Stuart"
And a little more Googling shows that there has been widespread spamming of other web forums advertising the same two scam companies........ oh what a giveaway!

[Ted]

Sounds exactly the same guy who spammed Green Building Forum a year or so ago.

[martin]

got a right one here! - he's also stupid enough to have used his own name in the form of "surnamestuart@hotmail.com", which is surprisingly enough the same name that a simple ip search on the owners of the relevant webnames resolves to............. Stuart L............ (otherwise known as "Stuartcraig")