PanzaPath: Ideas for a Healthier Planet

1. PanzaPath
Ideas for a healthier planet
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2. = OK
Conventional wisdom = ??

3. A long time ago, water wheels were used
on rivers for a lot of things,

4. Then electricity
discovered

5. electric motor invented by Faraday

6. Then the steam engine was invented

7. which together brought the
industrial revolution

8. water wheel connected to electric motor
It’s called a turbine

9. Many different kinds of turbines
Turgo
Impulse turbine Cross Flow
Pelton
Fancis / Mixed
Propeller
Water Wheel
Axial Flow Kaplan
Thoma
Reaction turbine
Bulb
Tubular Francis /S
Pit
Diagonal

10. Then they built dams
Bigger and BIGGER..

11. and put the water wheel
inside the dam wall

12. using the force of the water flow,

13. But: dams cause problems

14. so, they put the turbines
next to the river

15. and use coal for steam from the river water

16. But: coal causes problems…

17. Now we have a
situation…...

18. So they
cut trees

19. And burn
them
Next to…
rivers

20. Some collect
firewood….

21. causing
problems
homeless,
hungry

22. So; from environmentally friendly

23. to this……….

24. Killing two million a year

25. There are solutions ……

26. Old technologies - not scalable

27. Newer Designs not always suitable

28. A Power Pontoon floats
No construction needed

29. The latest award winning idea
Improved
water wheel

30. Small,

31. or BIG

32. Darkest Africa

33. most rivers

34. Powerful
rivers

35. By doing this

36. We can use this

37. To prevent this

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