Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Just a thought. Does anyone think it would be possible to engineer some sort of waterwheel on a flood and drain system on the return to FT side of the plumbing to make and store power to run the system?

There is no free power. You can't produce more power than you use.

Helomech means that there's no such thing as perpetual motion, there's always energy loss. Could you recoup some of your energy through falling water? sure.. the people who have tried and reported back report that its not significant enough to be worth the effort.


I like this 2 minute youtube video.. it's not mine

What about a nice looking way to put air into the water?

if you want to avoid a air pump you can look into venturi effect on your water pump.

brian

google flow forms

That's pretty cool kinda elaborate

You can make them by pressing your butt cheeks in to a container of wet cement

The bigger the Butt, the better...

Bummer that rules me out.

I just posted about this in the electrical sub-forum - anyone else have any ideas on dynamo?

Damn, I've just been throwing them away after the fun stops!