Walking to the train station, I found this waterwheel on display. According to someone I met at the Konstanz conference who researches these things,this paddle design works as follows: The water is comming down in a jet. The buckets are split down the middle, so the watter sloshes out the sides, essentially making for an elastic colision and so more energy transfer. Salzburg 26 May 2004, 16:08
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