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"wind kettle"
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- Subject: "wind kettle"
- From: Keith Johnson <keithdj@mindspring.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 14:00:49 -0500
- Newsgroups: permaculture
- Organization: Permaculture Activist, Culture's Edge, Patterns for Abundance, and Earthaven Ecovillage
Hi y'all,
Just got this letter recently and had no advice to offer. Got any leads
for me.
Keith J.
Keith
I was trying to run down information about a device Bill Mollison
described
in the course I took from him years ago. The device was supposedly
called a wind kettle which looked like a windmill on top of a tank.
Rotating vanes, in the tank, turned by the windmill passed very close to
fixed vanes in the tank. The turbulence (friction) supposedly heated
the water. Although I can imagine this working in theory, (a blender
can be used to heat water for instance), I have never seen mention of
one anywhere.
I have a design client in a developing country that has lots and lots
of wind and I thought this would be just the ticket if it already
manufactured and I could find
out where such a device is made.Appreciate your help.
dblume@igc.org
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