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re: Guy builds his own hydroelectric dam
Posted on 8/2/21 at 9:31 am to andersBlake
Posted on 8/2/21 at 9:31 am to andersBlake
I wonder how much power that little thing generates.
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Posted on 8/2/21 at 9:32 am to andersBlake
It's the Lego set for adult engineers who have a ton of extra time on their hands.
Pretty cool though.
Pretty cool though.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 9:32 am to andersBlake
Seems cool until you are downstream from him and can't provide water for livestock.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 9:34 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Government will come down on him. Can't have self sufficiency.
Solar panels are encouraged by the government these days. Not sure if they understand the possibilities they are opening up though.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 9:37 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Pretty cool, but no where close to self-sufficiency.
I don't get your point, or you don't understand self sufficiency.
Producing your own power is self sufficient.
Self sufficiently powering 5 LED lights over his 2.5' dam.
This post was edited on 8/2/21 at 9:39 am
Posted on 8/2/21 at 9:51 am to Auburn80
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In Oregon it's illegal to use rain water buckets on your gutters. They say all rainfall belongs to the state.
What? link?
The state and every city has guidelines on how to harvest rainwater and encourages it.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:02 am to IAmNERD
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That's a new one for me.
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washermachine
I have an extry washermachine under my carporch if you need one.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:06 am to andersBlake
Just got back from Co. and met a friend who lives up in the San Juan mtns., during the summer. He and his fellow neighbors are totally off the grid. Solar power, water from wells in town and a outhouse. Only thing connects them to the outside world is cell phones and Direct TV. He doesn't even have an address up there. He does have a back up generator in case the solar batteries get to low.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:07 am to Meauxjeaux
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Self sufficiently powering 5 LED lights over his 2.5' dam.
Who produced this power?
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:45 am to Cdawg
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The state and every city has guidelines on how to harvest rainwater and encourages it.
Ours even sells the rainwater collector barrels for 50 bux each
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:48 am to Meauxjeaux
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Self sufficiently powering 5 LED lights over his 2.5' dam.
Yeah it's not big at all just thought it was cool, found one that's a little bigger guy built a mini Hoover dam YouTube
Posted on 8/2/21 at 10:59 am to andersBlake
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Guy builds his own MINIATURE hydroelectric dam
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:04 am to VernonPLSUfan
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Just got back from Co. and met a friend who lives up in the San Juan mtns., during the summer. He and his fellow neighbors are totally off the grid. Solar power, water from wells in town and a outhouse. Only thing connects them to the outside world is cell phones and Direct TV. He doesn't even have an address up there. He does have a back up generator in case the solar batteries get to low.
And what does he do during winter?
Posted on 8/2/21 at 1:19 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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I don't get your point, or you don't understand self sufficiency.
Producing your own power is self sufficient.
Did you watch? It is a miniature, toy-size dam, that powers about 6 small LEDs . Now, if all you need is 6 LED Christmas lights to be self-sufficient, well, more power to you. I would venture to say most American households require much more power than that set up is capable of producing.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to completely self sufficient with regards to utilities, but I need more than 6 lights.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 1:24 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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He and his fellow neighbors are totally off the grid. Solar power, water from wells in town and a outhouse. Only thing connects them to the outside world is cell phones
So not off the grid. Cool none the less though.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 2:19 pm to SaintsTiger
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Build an elevated tank to catch rainwater, then use the flow from that to generate electricity?
This wouldn't work unless you have a massive square area figure like a pool to catch the rain. Otherwise, a normal 5 gallon bucket would fill up maybe 1 inch in a storm and not even create near enough force to actually harness power by using gravity of waterfall.
You need more water than what rain can bring and more square area of tank to catch as much water.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 2:39 pm to Smellslikeupdog
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You need more water than what rain can bring and more square area of tank to catch as much water.
Where do you think rivers and lakes come from?
Posted on 8/2/21 at 3:00 pm to SaintsTiger
quote:Let's do some back of the napkin math on this.
Build an elevated tank to catch rainwater, then use the flow from that to generate electricity?
Let's say you have a 1 acre lot, and you catch every drop that falls on it. Louisiana gets about 60" of rain per year, so in a year you'd catch about 43,560 X 5 = 217,800 cubic feet, or about 13.5 million pounds of water. Let's say you manage to store it 10 feet above ground. That works out to about 180 million joules of potential energy, or about 50kWh. That's enough to run a typical home for about a day.
If you want to get all of your home's electricity from rainwater, you either need about 400 acres of land, or you need to store your 1 acre of rainwater 4,000 feet in the air. Either seems quite challenging and expensive.
This is before conversion losses, maintenance, etc. of course.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 3:03 pm to andersBlake
Whitewater kayaking I have seen many setups on the rivers that were pumping power long before it was cool.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 3:48 pm to andersBlake
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has anyone ever tried to build their own power Source
Not with hydro, but I've done plenty of off-grid capable solar.
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