Re: Wally Minto's wheel
Garry Whitman ( (no email) )
Sat, 12 Sep 98 08:56:10 PDT
Ron
I have heard the Mother Earth story before but can't find the article
listed in any reference. Do you have it? Used to read Mother Earth for many
years and remember the original story in Popular Science but don't believe
I ever saw the one you refer to. I hold a refrigeration contractors license
and this looks like a no brainer. Was not planing to buy fuel. Painting the
outer half of the torus white and the inner half flat black will run it
slowly in the sun. Stainless steel concentrators will help. In the winter
here it will run most of the time by running it through the abundant well
water at 59 degrees. The worst problem so far is converting 1 RPM to 1140
to run the generator. Comments are most welcome!
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> To Garry Whittman:
> Waly Minto's wheel has been a disapointment to those who
> have built one. Mother Earth News built one, but couldn't
> get it to work.
> IMHO solar cells charging batteries would be a better choice.
> When the grid goes down you won't be able to get fuel to run
> anything.
>
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