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Modern Water Wheel
Freiburg, south west corner of Germany
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A modern water wheel - only a few meters from where I live, built in 2000 to gain electricity by a company named HydroWatt.

This small power station produces 26 kW of electrical power, a year estimate of about 150.000 kWh, which saves 96 tons of CO2 a year and thus helps to preserve our precious climate - together with lots of other small but renewable sources of energy like solar power stations, windmills etc.

The wheel is 2.9 m in diameter and 4 m wide. It uses the water of a channel running through all of Freiburg coming from the river Dreisam. The main purpose of this 'Gewerbebach' was to support local small industry with water and energy.

I would very much like to see those small water power stations more often...



Behind the scene : how this panorama was made

Location Map Geographic Coordinates:
Latitude: 48° 0' 46.08" N
Longitude: 7° 51' 13.32" E
Elevation: 254m
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Date/Time:
September 22, 2005 - about 10:00 UTC (11:00 local time)

Equipment:
EOS 600, Zenitar 16mm fisheye, shot on Fuji Reala at 1/10s f/5.6, Manfrotto 055CB tripod, self made pan tilt head. Stitched with PTGui, edited with Photoshop


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