Mini Linear turbine test Heathcote river Christchurch New Zealand April 7, 2014. Driving treadmill generator and car tail light through bike wheel step up chain drive.
Close up test with voltmeter and light bulb.
The Waikato 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,…
Tests 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…
Linear turbine test Heathcote river Christchurch April 14, 2014. Pumping water to 5 meters high. Mini linear turbine test Heathcote river Christchurch April 14, 2014. Pumping water showing low head approx 1 meter, and high head approx 6 meters. Mini Linear turbine test Heathcote river Christchurch April 14, 2014. Showing vane operation, and pumping water…
Beautiful west coast beach in Whanganui, one of the most undervalued towns in the North Island. Perhaps the city’s biggest scandal happened in 1920, when the Mayor, Charles Mackay, shot and wounded a young poet, D’Arcy Cresswell, who had been blackmailing him over his homosexuality. Mackay served seven years in prison and his name was…