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Water Wheels Can Pump Water Over A Mile Without Electricity

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago

YouTube description:

This is Barsha Pump, it's a new water pump created by aQysta. "Barsha" means rain in Nepalese and the pumps are being made available across Nepal, Indonesia, Zambia and 9 other countries.

The company aims to distribute over a thousand pumps around the world.

It requires no electricity to operate and does not emit any pollution either. The Barsha Pump can pump 43,000 litres of water a day and costs nothing to operate.
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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai

8 Comments

That’s really brilliant. The water gets scooped up at the notch on the side, then the water "slides" down in a spiral to the axle and out the other end.

ant

*music *wheels *water

Adding video to channels (Music, Water, Wheels) - requested by ant.

transmorpher jokingly says...

But can it generate enough electricity to run Crysis at max settings?

skinnydaddy1 jokingly says...

Congratulations. You've reinvented 5500 year old technology..

So, the maximum hydraulic pressure head (lift) would be to the same height as the top of the wheel?
Or is there a more subtle engineering take on this?

I wondered that too, but the pressure it produced (see 1:33) seems to argue that it's the cumulative height of all the coils added together (not just a multiple of the maximum height, though, because each successive coil is shorter).
That's just my guess, though.

So, the maximum hydraulic pressure head (lift) would be to the same height as the top of the wheel?
Or is there a more subtle engineering take on this?

Whoa. I had never thought of that.
Cumulative of all the coils.
Cool.

I wondered that too, but the pressure it produced (see 1:33) seems to argue that it's the cumulative height of all the coils added together (not just a multiple of the maximum height, though, because each successive coil is shorter).
That's just my guess, though.

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