[p2p-research] Floating Hydro-Electric Barrel Generator

[M. Fioretti]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 16:06:08 PM +0000, Ryan wrote:
> Very cool, very simple personal energy generation.
>
> This is a floating waterwheel that can generate electricity when
> suspended over a river or other flowing water regardless of the
> depth and speed of flow.

Just one note: when discussing this or any other "micro-hydro"
solutions, don't forget the dangers discussed in the first two
comments of
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-05-05-ask-umbra-micro-hydro-power/

(the "what happens with a storm flow" part looks particularly
interesting from Italy right now, with TV stations giving more and
more images of the Messina disaster flood...)

     Marco

General note: as Paul, I too would very much prefer a short, plain
text abstract plus link to a big HTML bubble