[Blacktip]

LO

Dont know if this is a stupid idea or if I should be on my way to the Dragons Den!

I have lots of water falling under gravity. Cant someone make a generator to capture the energy from this water to power a pump say or some low energy consuming piece of kit??

Let the mocking begin!

[chriss]

And while you are about it fit some solar panels around your brace bars.

Chris

[Blacktip]

Chriss, Your a genious! We could go to Leo togeather.

[chriss]

A few more...


1) Fit one of those 'wave powered electricity generators' in the tank.

2) Tap the heat generated by the lighting and the 'cooling' fans in a thermal transfer generator.

3) Capture the electricity that leaks from pumps and powerheads directly into an array of electrochemical cells aka batteries.

4) Rig up an old hamster wheel for your shrimp to work out in. No, thats just silly, it wouldn't work.

5) I was wondering if you could utilise skimmer waste as some sort of methane gas powered generator device, but probably not worth the effort.

If you take all these bits, connect them with a flux capacitor, I reckon the average 6 foot tank would generate enough leccy to power an led moonlight, slightly less than the 1.21 "jigowatts"

Chris

PS I'm off to patent all these ideas (probably find somebody has already beaten me to it)

[ben]

chriss, on Oct 12 2009, 10:13 PM, said:

If you take all these bits, connect them with a flux capacitor, I reckon the average 6 foot tank would generate enough leccy to power an led moonlight, slightly less than the 1.21 "jigowatts"

classic

[SLAPPY]

chriss, on Oct 12 2009, 08:07 PM, said:

And while you are about it fit some solar panels around your brace bars.

Chris

Already got some. Got some solar powered blue LED's for garden use on the brace bars.