Open Source Global Village I Site End State Development
I brought an Garmin emap GPS to e Farm and Jeremy collected 471 waypoints from the land here at OSGV I today.
I'm traveling to Utah to visit my folks, go to an ex-girlfriends Masters graduation ceremony, and visit a childhood friend. When I arrive back in New Mexico, I'll download those 471 waypoints so that everyone can see the topology, where the buildings and streams are.
This will be about mid-May.
At that time, it would be nice if someone who has used "Permaculture Design Manual" by Bill Mollison to successfully design more than two sites to offer suggestions (yes, I believe we're still open source and still interested in suggestions no matter how rude some of us are).
Personally, I like the swale method, think we have enough water and enough head to use hydro power if we create a upper and a lower resivoir (maybe more than one upper pond/cistern/resivoir).
The upper most point of the property seems to be around 975 feet and the lower most point is about 920 feet. We'd need low volume, slow moving designed hydroelectric generators and wind/solar pumps to move water back up the upper levels.
Knowing that hydroelectric power does not fit into the base 40 technologies, I don't expect this to take priority. However, I'm a believer in using what one has a lot of and I feel that the current OSGV I site has a lot of seasonal water (it runs for more months per year than it doesn't if what I'm told is accurate). This site will have some resources that other sites will not have and therefore not be replicable for other Open Source Global Villages. What do the rest of you think?
Jeremy is attempting to build a cable for the Garmin now. If he gets the cable built before I leave tonight, he'll have the data points tonight.
Comments
If you don't mind me asking. How will you deal with energy needs during the months the water doesn't run?
I would think if you are trying to build a repeatable community you would ensure you utilize a technology that can be easily replicated.
However in areas with enough rain fall a rainwater collection unit with a hydroelectric unit running throudh downflowing pipes might be replicatable.
I'm very new here fyi.
Justin
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Given the efficiencies (or rather lack thereof), it is unlikely that one will be able to produce more energy from this sort of system than one would use to create it? Not to mention also that it would probably cost more to implement than what it would cost to produce the same amount of power with a portable genset?
Hydro power works well only in areas where there is a fairly high volume of water flowing... If one has to build a reservoir the size of Lake Mead in order to get it to work, that sort of defeats the purpose, not to mention it being unlikely to be practical, or legally allowed most places.
(I think that the post from Fertin was spam?!?!)
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