power outages
 

As most of you from lower mainland B C know there has been some massive power outages this winter .. my question is what do you all do to protect your fish when power goes out .. how do you keep tanks warm ect .. should i be lookin into buyin a genarator ??

I have a honda generator but there are some good threads come up recently on the subject. Check out the Vancouver reef club forum, I think 3 of them are in there :biggrin:

no power no problem !
 

Ian Gilmartin, 60, has invented a mini water wheel capable of supplying enough electricity to power a house - for free.

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=5492007

its got me thinking
 

this low-head power generator has got me thinking about our overflows and my overflow pipes from my tank upstairs into my basement sump - that would generate a lot of electricity with 13 foot drop

LOL We could just put the thing outside here and there would be enough water to power it!

i always liked your thinking Chin !

I don't know how serious you were about that but if you think carefully it could never work. The 13ft drop might generate quite a bit of juice but for it to be enough you'd need a perfect generator and pump. You need to get it 13ft back up after all.

Do you think it would work with just a 4 foot return? I mean even if it generates enough juice to kill some of the power bills that would be enough for me. I wonder how much flow it would require passing through the generator?

if you guys are really serious about this idea i'm pretty sure it's been beaten to death on RC somewhere. i believe the results weren't worth the effort after all the numbers had been crunched.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...te+electricity