of original turbine testing in Japan 1984 and Thailand in 1986. Please contact jservice@ihug.co.nz if you are interested in this turbine. Full manufacturing drawings available at my blog  http://kamomei.blogspot.com/p/welcome-to-johns-linear-turbine.html.   Open channel flow (river flow) Linear turbine tests Fukui Japan 1984 (Kuzuryu river and irrigation canal). Pumping water and demonstrating able to rotate in same […]

of Tuapeka turbine (linear turbine) at Tuapeka punt picnic on Clutha River New Zealand Feb 26, 2012. Tuapeka punt is operating across river using rudders and river flow to make it move sideways. Tuapeka turbine operates on similar principle with blades suspended on chains and incliined to flow to move sideways and turn wheels […]

ikato River is the longest river in New Zealand. In the North Island, it runs for 425 kilometres from the eastern slopes of Mount Ruapehu, joining the Tongariro River system and emptying intoLake Taupo, New Zealand’s largest lake. It drains Taupo at the lake’s northeastern edge, creates the Huka Falls, and then flows northwest, […]