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Has anyone ever played with or hooked up a mini hydroelectric torbine generator to a damed up creek? Thoughts? How do you like it? Any problems?
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face,
I've thought about it. I have a fair to small sized stream, it hasn't ran all summer hardly. A few rains and it gets pretty large.
So just don't have a nice steady flow here.
I would guess the old style water wheel like the old sawmills used could power a small generator in the right stream.
Don't know how much and how fast of water a turbine generator would need.
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Go to www.homepower.com and click on hydro power. Some interesting stuff.
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I've looked into it a bit though I was planning on a direct drive (waterwheel to pump). Those plans have been put on hold due to lack of overflow from my pond. There are some tax advantages also: http://www.dsireusa.org/ Good site Dave.
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