One of my buddies in Canada started an insulated building panel business so I am planning on importing those for the building itself.
Our main fridge for our beer will be in the basement lined with insulated panels to reduce cost there.
As far as cost goes, are there ongoing costs? I can understand the inefficiency but once you have the tank and the generator what other costs are there?
If I am building a brewery I will be buying a bunch of tanks anyway so one more shouldn't wipe me out financially. The government also gives grants for renewable power creation, at least for solar panels.
I definitely do not intend to go off-grid for this but would like to get my electrical energy costs as close to zero as possible.
As a rough estimate of the night being twelve hours, 100,000 Lt comes out to around two Lt per second. Dropping through a narrowing pipe to increase speed and pressure what kind of power generation could I be looking at? Even if it is inefficient could I create enough energy to pay off the tank and generator over five years or less? That would be worth it for me.
Part of this idea is that a brewery goes through a huge amount of water, cleaning the brewhouse itself after every brew, cleaning each tank after the beer is moved to either a different tank or to kegs and then cleaning every keg after it is used. All of that water just going down the drains seems a huge waste. If I could flush the toilets with it and use it for power generation I could use most of our water twice and if most of that was producing energy at the same time it would lower our costs while making us a greener company.
Anyway, thanks for the responses so far.
Cheers.
