{"id":378789,"date":"2010-03-02T01:45:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T06:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/bourne-energy-debuts-backpack-hydroelectric-plant-for-off-grid-power\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T01:45:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T06:45:29","slug":"bourne-energy-debuts-backpack-hydroelectric-plant-for-off-grid-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/378789","title":{"rendered":"Bourne Energy debuts backpack hydroelectric plant for off-grid power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/03\/02\/bpp_8WaaZ_69.jpg\" alt=\"bpp\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Portable hydroelectric generator to provide up to 500W of renewable power. <\/p>\n<p>California-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bourneenergy.com\/futuremain.html#SPP\">Bourne Energy<\/a> has unveiled a backpack hydroelectric generator that weighs 30 pounds and generates up to 500W of renewable power. The BPP (Backpack Power Plant) can create clean power from any stream deeper than 4 feet. The company also showcased a more-rugged version of the BPP that has been designed for military use. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The BPP-2, which costs about $3000, operates silently with no heat or exhaust emissions. The system is 40% less visible during operations and can be bottom mounted to be totally invisible. To install the BPP, the user has to dig two trenches on opposite sides of a river and insert a lightweight anchor into each. Finally the user will have to run a synthetic rope between the anchors and the BPP.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2010\/03\/backpack-hydroelectric-plant\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Portable hydroelectric generator to provide up to 500W of renewable power. California-based Bourne Energy has unveiled a backpack hydroelectric generator that weighs 30 pounds and generates up to 500W of renewable power. The BPP (Backpack Power Plant) can create clean power from any stream deeper than 4 feet. The company also showcased a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}