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Options for Wind-Electric Water Pumping | 53 comments (53 topical, editorial)

Re: Options for Wind-Electric Water Pumping (3.00 / 0) (#11)
by ruddycrazy on Thu Mar 13th, 2008 at 04:06:29 AM MST
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As an alternate approach why not use compressed air to raise the water. I've read on previous research the air lift system designed properly can raise water 500' at a reasonable rate. If your interested I can upload the documents I have onhand here to my website for a short time so you can download them. I modiefied an old lawnmower motor into a compressor and I reckon a 44 gallon drum savvy genny would power it nicely. Something of this nature could be scaled up or alternately store the power of the wind gennies in a batterybank and use an inverter to power an air compressor.

Cheers Bryan

Re: Options for Wind-Electric Water Pumping (3.00 / 0) (#21)
by feral air on Thu Mar 13th, 2008 at 09:43:37 AM MST
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An airlift pump is a pretty good idea. Maybe this could be tested/used on the wells that are currently being hand-pumped.

It looks like the deep well pipe is too large for airlift - I could be wrong though. If it would work with the large pipe I have a feeling you would need high power blowers (a dozen leaf blowers?) and then back-pressure on the blowers could be a problem.

It's probably worth researching a bit, anyway. take it easy

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Re: Options for Wind-Electric Water Pumping (3.00 / 0) (#25)
by jacobs on Thu Mar 13th, 2008 at 06:30:29 PM MST
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Bowjon made airlift water pumping systems a few years back but went out of business due to numerous failures of their compressors. They were not dependable but did work well for awhile. I would think twice before considering this type of system.

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