The Canaries thing is a load of ballcocks, research sponsored by an American Insurance company that sell damage insurance !!!!! A Nuclear power station needs to be near a guaranteed and plentiful supply of water, in the UK and most of the world it is the sea that provides it. Each reactor needs about 300,000 gallons of water per minute for cooling in the event of a problem. (Hence in the Japan Tsunami you see what happens when the water supply (or power to the pumps) to the reactor fails).
Bring it on if we can, trouble with wind it is inconsistent
always assumed there were vested interests twisting the decisions why we dont usemore river power in this country is beyond me,we have a river through the farm which is about two ft deep and ten ft wide in summer and would love to use it to produce power but trying to get any one interested seems impossible, it used to run a feed mill off a leat so must be decent flow
Most of these old water mills were only 2-5 hp the largest in Norfolk, for that is near where I live was about 7 hp ie 5 Kw . Not going to power an awful lot
is there anyway of testing it?
Very simple, power is a measure of volume X drop
First you measure the amount of flow in cubic feet or meters per second. Then the difference in height called head.
