CountryByNet.com Forums :: Re: Solar Water Pump

Egon, There are many regional aquifers that are in deficit mode and get lower every year with a crisis coming, delayed but coming. The huge circular irrigation units with their deep wells that make the large green bull's eyes visible from space need to have wells that are deeper and deeper as they deplete a NON-renewable (at the rate used) resource.

In our area there are some sections (640 ac, i.e. a square mile) where no one has found good water. Wells around here can just go bad and do all too often, as a delayed result of exploitive oil field practices. Salt water is pumped back into certain wells, sometimes poluting aquifers. Not too long ago an oil outfit was pumping their salt water (comes up with the oil sometimes) into a farm pond where it could overflow into a creek and then into the south Canadian river. They eventually got caught and did a half vast (alternate spelling) cleanup but left behind salt poluted barren patches of erroding land.

If there is water to be pumped, which we must assume, then it would be easy to "run the numbers" and select between wind mill and solar. I think the economics would probbly favor solar as the well depth significantly increased.

Pat

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