Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site

There is nothing that forced me to come with it. I is not that I am frustrated with electricity of obsessed with   conservation idea. Furthermore it is not that I drop everything and will do anything with this idea. Still, I think the idea is very elegant and if I have a good ready to go kit in my disposal to experiment with then I would not mind to try it.

My house sits next to conservation land.  There is a creek running from nearby hills into the conservation lend. The creek is flooding in the conservation freely but in the space what houses are it confined in a large 4 feet diameter pipe and runs under ground. Right next to my house the pipe exit from the ground with 13-14 feet drop. The pipe exit is very convents located a feet above the conservation land floor. The creek never dries and never froze. Even in drought it has ~5-6 inches high water flow across 4 feet pipe, regularly it has 1 foot water flow and during rain it has the whole 4 feet pipe filed with huge pressure.

So, I wonder why do not install at the exit of the pipe a hydraulic turbine?  It is 24/7 free electricity that can let say to power my PurePower battery charger. This is the idea of complete disconnection from the grid (greed?) very much attract me. It is not difficult to implement and I am sure it has to be some kind of kits out there. All that I need a turbine wheel that will engage water and alternator. I might even take a fraction of the water from the pipe and coffin it in my own in-pipe turbine. I am not sure if it would be legal but the idea is very attracts me…

Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site