Airlift from Glenn

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Hello AAA team,

Has anyone heard from Glenn Martinez from Hawaii? I would like to get in touch as I bought a manual of him years ago and my external drive died which had the file on it (i know should have had a cloud backup).

I have tried the email addresses I had but they bounce…

Cheers

Patrick

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I tried to get in touch about a year and a half ago. Didn’t hear back. Loved his air lift though. Did it for a farm here in Jordan and lifted water about 3m. Was a fun experiment. If we still had the farm we would have probably used it as dragon tails for a separate aeration source in the hot summer months.

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Thanks Jon,

I’d like to explore his airlift for moving water around my system. Do you have the tech drawings?

Cheers,

Patrick

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Unfortunately I think they were a victim of the hot Middle Eastern sun on my laptop haha. I have backups somewhere on these hard drives. Hmm…

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I dont think he does aquaponics any more hes not posted anything in a long time and never responds to any one so i think hes checked out.

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Terry Stratton and Glenn published an ECHO Technical Note on the air lift The Martinez Airlift Pump: Lifting Water with Air | ECHOcommunity.org. Terry would be happy to offer advice if you are still interested [email protected].

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This is great news! Thank you!

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From the article:
“We replaced one 200-watt submersible pump with an 80-watt air compressor to run an airlift.”

One has to be careful not to compare nominal power rating with actual used wattage. A 200W pump is not pulling 200W all the time.
Would really love to see a direct comparison between these two types of pumps.

Water on a higher level has potential energy. So In the end probably an energy efficiency rating of electrical energy required to produce a defined amount of potential energy would be helpful. Of course tabled with different head heights.

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