Sunday, January 17, 2010

Weekend Update 1-17-10

Halfway through January already. How time flys. Somewhere I read: "life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer you get to the roll, the faster it goes". Aint that the truth.

Well, below is the weekend shot at the eminis and tides. If you believe it, and sometimes its hard I admit, we are looking at a tidal bottom last friday. Could it be we've seen the low down below 1130 on friday already? As always, time will tell.

Hydro Project 2 may be shelved for the time being. I did a flow check yesterday and it was not encouraging. Apparently we seem to be drying up for some unknown reason and I would not like to have water flow shutoff by mother nature and have the system just go on vacation for months. So, more study is needed....in the meantime, I'll be posting some calcs to determine possible energy production based on some assumptions going forward. As you might know, the really nice thing about small hydro is that, given adequate constant flow, it runs 24-7 and does not shut down when the sun doesnt shine or wind doesnt blow....but, you gotta have water.