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I live on a narrowboat - a 45 foot long, 6 foot wide steel boat on a
canal in England.

How beautiful they are! I'd love to rent one for a vacation in the UK's
canal system.

The most amazing wind turbines I've ever seen come from a group of mountain
men with no engineering background, whatsoever, but a need for power in a
remote part of Colorado, USA, the power company....at first....refused to
bring power to. They've gone from a shop curiosity to a full blown
company, now. Their basic design has extremely-powerful rare earth magnets
mounted on a car disk brake disk slowly turned by large homemade blades.
the magnets turn in not-too-close proximity to a set of flat, homemade
coils epoxied to a plywood, non-magnetic, mount so that the magnets produce
massive multiphase AC they rectify into many kilowatts of DC to charge
massive battery banks to power their homes and the whole community! The
pure simplicity of these slow-turning powerful machines is a real credit to
their insight and homespun engineering.

Is your longboat semi-permanent tied to a quay or do you need something to
move around a lot. If you fairly much stay in one place, one of these
machines ashore could provide plenty of power for you alongside the quay
with a dropcord.

http://www.otherpower.com/

Of PARTICULAR great interest to you with your slow-turning diesel would be
their adaptation of their machines to a Listeroid diesel from India on
these webpages. The machines occupy almost no space bigger than a good
flywheel, as you can see from the pictures...an amazing power plant,
indeed.

They are even running their machine on a steam engine England is famous
for!