I have two wind pumps that are extremely low cost, if anybody wants to know about them. One of them can replace treadle pumps and go deeper, and can still be operated manually when there is no wind. The other drives an improved rope pump that can achieve good load matching with a windmill, can reach much deeper than conventional rope pumps, has low starting load, and can even be used to operate as a water turbine using water stored in a closed container at the surface. Both wind pumps can be combined with solar.
I have the cheapest solution of all. It’s called the Bird Windmill. It costs almost nothing and can be just tied together. If Greenpeace wants the solution to providing poor Indian farmers with water pumping, this is it, as long as they have some regular wind. . It is designed for that purpose. It is intended to replace treadle pumps, and it can be treadled when there is no wind. I can send information upon request. I’m a not-for-profit inventor. The Bird Windmill can produce electricity at the same time that it is mechanically pumping water.
I just noticed that I wrote previously, but got no replay. So I assume that Greenpeace is not sincere and is merely seeking good publicity. Please note that there is not date listed for this contest, and no indication of any future contest.
Hi Peter, sounds interesting. Note that this news article is about a Greenpeace contest that took place a couple of years ago. Comments you leave here will not go to anyone at Greenpeace, so if you’d like to get in touch I’d suggest emailing them. Or better yet, look for a current contest and enter your design. To get started, please see this list of awards for design in global development: https://www.engineeringforchange.org/news/sustainable-design-contests-and-awards-roundup/. And if you enter, I’d like to know how it goes. You can write at editor (at) engineeringforchange (dot) org. Good luck!
Hi. I have to make this decision now whether to purchase two diesel water pumps or find an alternative solution so I found this article helpful. However what is not clear is how much wattage can be generated from solar panels. For example, I need diesel pumps to deliver 35 cubic meters and 120 cubic meters of water per hour (but only for 6-7 hours). Is it possible to have enough electricity generated from solar panels to operate these?
Peter,
Could you send me more info on how to make this Bird Windmill. I have a small farm that is running 2 1.5 hp fans for evaporative cooling. Would like to use the wind coming from these fans to pump water from a small creek nearby to irrigate some fruit trees during summer as it is very hot here in the Philippines and my soil is a bit sandy. This would really help me lessen my elctricity bill which have jumped up recently from 580usd to 800 usd a month, because i need to irrigate these trees so they would not dry up this summer as they were just a year old.
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I have two wind pumps that are extremely low cost, if anybody wants to know about them. One of them can replace treadle pumps and go deeper, and can still be operated manually when there is no wind. The other drives an improved rope pump that can achieve good load matching with a windmill, can reach much deeper than conventional rope pumps, has low starting load, and can even be used to operate as a water turbine using water stored in a closed container at the surface. Both wind pumps can be combined with solar.
I have the cheapest solution of all. It’s called the Bird Windmill. It costs almost nothing and can be just tied together. If Greenpeace wants the solution to providing poor Indian farmers with water pumping, this is it, as long as they have some regular wind. . It is designed for that purpose. It is intended to replace treadle pumps, and it can be treadled when there is no wind. I can send information upon request. I’m a not-for-profit inventor. The Bird Windmill can produce electricity at the same time that it is mechanically pumping water.
I just noticed that I wrote previously, but got no replay. So I assume that Greenpeace is not sincere and is merely seeking good publicity. Please note that there is not date listed for this contest, and no indication of any future contest.
Hi Peter, sounds interesting. Note that this news article is about a Greenpeace contest that took place a couple of years ago. Comments you leave here will not go to anyone at Greenpeace, so if you’d like to get in touch I’d suggest emailing them. Or better yet, look for a current contest and enter your design. To get started, please see this list of awards for design in global development: https://www.engineeringforchange.org/news/sustainable-design-contests-and-awards-roundup/. And if you enter, I’d like to know how it goes. You can write at editor (at) engineeringforchange (dot) org. Good luck!
Hi. I have to make this decision now whether to purchase two diesel water pumps or find an alternative solution so I found this article helpful. However what is not clear is how much wattage can be generated from solar panels. For example, I need diesel pumps to deliver 35 cubic meters and 120 cubic meters of water per hour (but only for 6-7 hours). Is it possible to have enough electricity generated from solar panels to operate these?
Peter,
Could you send me more info on how to make this Bird Windmill. I have a small farm that is running 2 1.5 hp fans for evaporative cooling. Would like to use the wind coming from these fans to pump water from a small creek nearby to irrigate some fruit trees during summer as it is very hot here in the Philippines and my soil is a bit sandy. This would really help me lessen my elctricity bill which have jumped up recently from 580usd to 800 usd a month, because i need to irrigate these trees so they would not dry up this summer as they were just a year old.