I have a soft spot for Pelton wheels – those power generating turbines that need an awful lot of pressure and very little flow, and can score high 90s of percent in efficiency terms. On a visit to ...
THE NEVADA COUNTY Historical Society maintains three major museums and a research library. Two of the museums and the library are in Nevada City. The buildings, Firehouse No. 1 and the Narrow Gauge ...
A pioneering horizontal, six-nozzle Pelton turbine developed by Voith Hydro at the 326-GWh Gerlos 1 pumped storage facility in the Ziller Valley, Austria, is setting new benchmarks for the ...
Turbine flow design has changed little since their invention in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries due to the simplicity and power of these devices to extract energy from the movement of a ...
[Tom Stanton] has been messing around with compressed air power for a few years now, and most of his work focused on piston engines. He likes using 2-liter soda bottles as lightweight tanks but their ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of History of Technology National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Mechanical ...
The Camptonville Historical Society will hold its third car trek on Saturday, Sept. 21, to learn about Pelton’s waterwheel and the local history of electric power generation. Lester Pelton was living ...
We all know the story arc that so many projects take: Build. Fail. Improve. Fail. Repair. Improve. Fail. Rebuild. Success… Tweak! [Kris Harbour] is no stranger to the process, as his impressive ...
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