[SustainableTompkins] Using Water to Power Your Home or Farm

[GayNicholson at aol.com]

Using  Water to Power Your Home or Farm: 
Educational  Seminar to Focus on Small Hydropower  Options 
Ithaca ─ As global warming accelerates and fossil fuel prices spike, New  
Yorkers are taking a closer look at all sorts of renewable sources of energy  
including hydropower. Early settlement patterns in the Finger  Lakes region were 
mostly associated with the area’s rushing streams  and rivers because of the 
need for power to grind grains, mill lumber, and spin  manufacturing equipment. 
Many people associate large waterwheels or dams with  hydropower, but today 
there are advanced microturbines available to make it  relatively easy to use 
water from even small streams to make electricity for  homes, businesses, and 
farms. 
The Green Resource Hub of the Finger Lakes and Tompkins County  Cooperative 
Extension’s Energy $mart Communities Program will present “Using  Water to 
Power Your Home or Farm” on Thursday, January 17 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.  at Home 
Green Home, 215 The Commons,  Ithaca. There is a $5 suggested  donation, and 
light refreshments will be provided. 
The seminar will be presented by Tim Shadduck, the president of the  
Renewable Energy Group of the Southern Tier and a retired  Corning engineer. Tim has 
been  researching various designs for a “microhydro” power system for his own 
rural  property, and will share the results of his search for the right 
combination of  components. He will cover both moving water systems (creeks and 
streams) and  stored water systems (upper and lower ponds) from design concepts to 
evaluation  of turbines and construction variables.  
The Green Resource Hub’s winter seminar series also includes classes at  Home 
Green Home on heating with biomass (November 29) and on natural sources for  
home insulation (February 21). 
The Green Resource Hub of the Finger  Lakes is a non-profit organization that 
aims to expand the regional  marketplace for sustainable living through 
consumer education and workforce  training in green building, energy efficiency, 
renewable energy and green  purchasing. 


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Gay  Nicholson, Ph.D. 

607-533-7312 (home office)
607-279-6618  (cell)

1 Maple Avenue
Lansing, NY  14882
gaynicholson at aol.com

Sustainable Tompkins 
Program  Coordinator 
w_ww.sustainabletompkins.org_ (http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/) 

Southern Tier Energy$mart Communities
Regional  Coordinator
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
615 Willow  Ave., Ithaca, NY 14850
agn1 at cornell.edu




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