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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 16:21:20 -0700
To: Steve Browne <sbrowne@ix.netcom.com>
From: MrSolar@netins.net (Charlie Collins)
Subject: Feb Newsletter 400+


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Mr. Solar's Newsletter > February '96
Volume 1 - Number 6

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Home page -

http://www.netins.net/showcase/solarcatalog/

Email -
MrSolar@netins.net (Charlie Collins)
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        What's included  :-)
Sale Items
 <> From Me to You
<> Mr. Solar's Current Column
<>Mr. Solar's Web Page Update
<>Criss/Cross update
<>What's New
<> Jobs Wanted + Used Items On Sale (your free listings)

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<>  Sale Items <>

Go to sale page - you will find the following at a good buy from February
1st to 3rd.
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Solar Panels - Siemens

M55 - 53 watt List Price $395.00 each Sale Price $290.00 each in boxes of 4
+ shipping
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M75 - 48 watt List Price $375.00 each Sale Price $270.00 each in boxes of 4
+ shipping
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BE PREPARED :-)
March's  sale  we will be offering specials on:
Solar Panels
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>From me to you  -

        This is a milestone - we have had our WWW complete page up and
running for 6 mos. today :-)
        Note the awards we have received -
top 5% of sights in the book top 1000 sights
        We owe  much of our success to you in encouraging us and giving us
ideas on improvements - THANKS :-)

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A couple of Mr. Solar's Current Column's >
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        Subject > Hydro for Irrigation canals
Question from Bud, Hurricane Utah
Dear Mr. Solar: I have a lot of water flowing past my house, in the
irrigation canal. Isn't there anyway that I can harness this to generate
electricity?
        Bud, yes there is a way, now a company back East has developed a
hydro electric submersible generator which looks like a propeller mounted
on the bottom of a outboard motor.
        You can see a picture of this in our catalogue area under  hydro.
        Actually what it is a 13" propeller mounted on a aluminum housing
that encloses a 12 or 24 volt generator. You install this into your stream,
which must be at least 13" deep and wide for the propeller, actually it
should be probably 20" all around for the water to flow, and this means
that the water must be 20" deep to give room around the propeller.
        This will generate approximately 2.4 Kilowatts-hours of electricity
per 24 hour period with a water flowing at thirteen feet per second. You
will need at least a stream speed of three feet per second to generate
electricity. You can install several of these in a stream as long as they
are approximately 50 feet apart. Also if your stream is wider than you
could make a funnel type arrangement so that you have more pressure flowing
by the hydro electric submersible generator. The water speed and pressure
directly effects the output of this equipment.
        If you would like more information on this please send me a SASE
and I will be happy to send it to you. Please let me know of your water
flow and ditch dimension including the water depth.

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Subject -Install Hydro electrical generation
Question from Jim D. > Internet

Dear Mr. Solar: I would like to know how to figure if I have enough water
and fall to be able to install a hydro system for my home here in West
Virginia. How do I go about figuring this out?
        Jim this is a very good question and one that every one should
consider if they want to install a hydro system.
        For a small system you figure the amount of available power in
watts generated by using the following formula:
                       W= H X GPM X 0.18 X 0.30

                           W = Power in Watts
                        H = Head in Feet (amount of fall)
                        GPM = Gallons per minute
                        The 0.18 and the 0.30 are used to figure the
efficiency.
        As you see there are two important figures that you will need in
order to know if you have enough power to generate electricity. They are
how much gallons per minute and what is the fall.
        During your dry season you should figure on  the amount of water
that you have available per minute. To do this you construct a small dam so
that all of the water will flow over a small area so that you can catch it
in a 5 gallon or 50 gallon container.
        You should use the following formula:
                                GPM = 60/STF  X  GC

                                60  = 60 seconds per minute
                                STF = seconds to fill container
                                GC = gallons of container
        As an example if you have  a five gallon container that is filled
in 10 seconds then :
                        GPM = 60/10 X 5
                               = 30 gallons per minute
        Therefore  during your dry season you will have 30 gallons per
minute to generate electricity with.
        To figure the head in feet that you have you should get a site
level. This small level ( 1"X by 6" long) is very easy to use and lets you
know the fall that you have and thus you will be able to figure your power
generation for a hydroelectric installation. What you do is go to your low
spot on your stream to look through the level towards your water high
ground and you will see a very small level inside the tube. You get this to
be level and then notice where it is pointing. Then you move to that point
and  again point it towards your water high ground. You repeat this
procedure until you are at the water high ground and multiply your findings
to get your total elevation or head in feet.
        Now you can use the above formula to figure the amount of watts you
will generate with a hydro system.
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        If you have any questions, or would like more information about solar
electricity, you can contact Charlie via Email address:
(MrSolar@netins.net). Charlie will respond to your questions in the next
couple of days and, if your question is good enough, it may find its way
into his "Ask Mr. Solar" column.

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Mr. Solar's Web update<>

Well we were honored this month - as we found ourselves in the book "The
World Wide Web Top 1000." It's now available at
bookstores everywhere, published by New Riders - an imprint of Macmillan
Publishing. (ISBN # is: 1-56205-577-1) Macmillan also has an on-line
bookstore at http://mcp.com/, or call 1-800-428-5331.
We are on page 454 with a picture :-) If you care to see it you should find
a copy at your library or you can get a copy of this "cool book".
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        We have added the following to our Environmentally Friendly Web Sites
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Fiddler's Green Community (Cool idea for a New Community)
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        We added the following items from major manufacturers to our
catalogue for sale:

                Heart Inverters
                UPS Controls
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        We have added a very good article about water pumping to our
articles section which you may find interesting - it is by Windy Dankoff
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       If you have any suggestions of how I can make it easier for you let
       me know as I want to help and educate others about using
       alternative electricity.
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Criss/Cross update<>

We are in the process of setting up a Criss/Cross for all interested people
WORLD WIDE - what it is a listing (free) of those who want to know more
about solar electricity and those who live it - Please visit our home page
then to > Mr. Solar's Global Network (Join Mr. Solar's worldwide network
"Criss/Cross" of alternative energy powered homes, businesses & villages)
        - then give us your input :-)

It is our hope that this will help all of us grid-less people :-)
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<>What's New <>
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        As many of you know Photocomm bought Sunelco(the Sun Electric Co.)
and it is rumored that they have bought Solar Jack Pumps as well as talking
with several other companies I guess in order widen their base.


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PRICES ! ! ! !
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Zomeworks is planning on a price increase more than 5% as of February 1st 1996
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Jobs Wanted + Used Items On Sale (your free listings)
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JOBS Wanted Area - this is for anyone who is looking to get into this field
- maybe you know of something - if so let me know and I will have them
contact you :-)
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        I am an environmental engineering student at the University of
Utah and have recently took the only course in solar engineering that is
offered here. I would like to get some information about job
opportunities in solar engineering if there is such a thing.      Thank You
Simon Evans
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Looking for:
        A marketing/management position in a renewable
energy/environmentally focused organization - Willing to travel and
relocate.

        Education: - BS Marketing + M.B.A

        Experience:
Kellogg Caribbean, Puerto Rico- Marketing consultant
Peace Corps Volunteer, Dominican Republic- Started a solar energy
installation cooperative

        Skills:
Fluency in Spanish
High degree of expertise in Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Lotus 1,2,3,
WordPerfect, Freelance Graphics and the Internet

Please contact: - John Thompson
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This is an area for you to list your used items that you have for sale - If
you will email us a description of your items that you wish to sell with a
description - condition and any other information that you have about your
product - we will list it FREE for you with your Email address - so you
will have a good chance to sell it  and others will have a good chance to
buy it at a fair price - therefore all are :-)
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