2009-2010
5.9 Kilowatt Micro Hydroelectric Turbine Installation
Using Clean Rain, Melting Snow, and Gravity in The Shawangunk Mountains
Installation of the hydroelectric system (called Millbrook Mountain Hydro) was completed by Barry Lebost in May of 2009.
In 2011 we have, as of October, used over 26,000 Kwh of electricity for lighting, home heating and domestic hot water produced by our power plant.
Blue Mountain Hydro consulting has been founded for the purpose of installing micro-hydro in the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountain region of New York State.
See BMHydro.com
An underground mountain lake feeds seven streams that come together to be stored in a 200,000 gallon dammed
pond. The dam feeds an 8" HDPE penstock (ISCO) pipe beginning inside a
debris filtering concrete forebay while the turbine/generator sits in a
5ft x 6ft garden shed in a gully 72.4 ft. below the dam. Water pressure
at the base of the penstock is 31.5 PSI and a Gates carbon timing belt
increases the speed of the 1500 RPM PowerPal T8 turgo Vietnamese turbine
to the generator's required 1800 RPM for 60 cycle 240V/120V electric
power.The 6Kw Marathon Electric generator with voltage regulator was
wired for hydro electric power use. Besides electrically powering the
house, two 80 gallon tanks are employed to heat, store water, and
circulate water through the baseboard heating loop when needed as well
as through a domestic hot water heat exchanger.The turbine is now producing on average 2.5 to 3.5 Kw hours throughout the year. An actuator system allows the turbine needle valve throttle to be opened and closed remotely from the house. Microhydro can produce clean renewable
energy utilizing pure clean water that is an abundant resource of New York State. The system puts back all of the clean water it uses into the same stream.
The returning water is just as clean as when it was extracted.
Most of the installation can be built underground to make it environmentally invisible.The documented yearly power production of this installation has varied between 16,000 and 27,000 kwh depending on the amount of yearly rainfall here on Millbrook Mountain.
The
jobs that can be created by the expansion of this field include HDPE
pipe manufacture, fusion splicing equipment, fusion splice operators,
couplings, steel fabrication, excavation, hydrologists survey,turbine
manufacture,generator manufacture, electricians, power transmissions,
wire and cable,excavation equipment and operators,prefabricated cement
catch basins, transfer switches, water heaters,pressure gauges,
trucking, steel fabrication, etc.The list goes on and on.
If
you live in the Hudson valley area and you think you have a water power
source that can power your home or business email
blebost@gmail.com
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Note: Barry Lebost has analyzed the gas company's practice
of hydrofracking and has determined that hydrofracking is an imprecise
science with multiple flaws.
The Marcellus shale has unpredictable vertical fissures.
Because it presents a major threat to the
environment for future generations this practice should be abandoned and
the purposeful injection of poisons and carcinogens into the ground should be made
illegal.
