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Trompe and airlift pump model for schools

by gaiatechnician on November 14, 2016

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I am a stone mason. My hobby is making new solar cooking and gardening stuff. I have used solar heat to cook soil for a couple of years. In mother earth
news in January, i read that their compost expert does the same with diseased plants and compost made from them! It kills the pathogens. In 2009, I hope to
make a working low tech heliostat and design some groovey new reflectors for solar cooking.
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Intro: Trompe and airlift pump model for schools

The trompe is an old technology to compress air. The compressed air was used for all sorts of things, to blow air into forges, to run pneumatic machinery in mines and to
build alpine tunnels and to aerate mines too. It was used from the 15th century to the 19th century in Europe and North America. Then with the invention of hydro-
electricity, the trompe became obsolete. Water wheels to drive flour mills still survived. They had been used for over 2000 years! The initial cost of hydro-electricity on
small sites was too much for the small amount of electricity they produced and the cost of connecting them to the grid. But then in the mid 20 th century, they also
became obsolete because electricity (now coal fired too) became so cheap and reliable that it out competed them. So now we are left with millions of unused water
power sites that have substantial amounts of power but which cost too much money to develop. My suggestion is to give trompes a try instead. They are super simple to
make and to operate and they could be integrated with hydroponic or aquaponic growing systems pretty easily. A "pneumatic grid" can easily be made to distribute the
pressurized air to things that need it.

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