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Mini Linear turbine test on Waimana river near Whakatane, New Zealand. March 14, 2015
Original test video currently unavailable. Mini Linear turbine test on Waimana river about 6 km past Taneatua near Whakatane, New Zealand. March 14, 2015. Pumping water and generating power for light bulb.
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Linear turbine tests Heathcote river April 14, 2014
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…
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ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS NEW ZEALAND (EWBNZ) PROJECT
Tidal current linear turbine tests at Orewa River January 2013 See video of linear turbine tests at Orewa river: click here …
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Turbine testing in Japan and Thailand
Videos 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…
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Tuapeka turbine at Tuapeka Punt (Clutha river New Zealand) Feb 2012
Tuapeka turbine ready for launching in the Clutha river at the Tuapeka Punt picnic 26 February 2012
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Test on Waikato River, Feb 2012
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,…
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To South – Road Trip to Balclutha
Wellington. My trusty Toyota Estima waiting to board the Interislander ferry. The Interislander travels between Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island, forming a road and rail link between New Zealand’s two main islands. Three roll-on roll-off vessels operate the 50 nautical miles (93 km; 58 mi) ferry route, taking three…
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Second Stop – Road Trip to Balclutha
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…