Hmm, I will have to look into these. The Powerspout in particular looks promising. We have a small but year round stream on our property and something like this may be possible.
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Hmm, I will have to look into these. The Powerspout in particular looks promising. We have a small but year round stream on our property and something like this may be possible.
Lucky you, if so. There is no better form of off-grid energy. The powerspout needs an elevation change to work, is one end of the stream higher than the other? If not, then you could always build your own solution from a high output alternator and a geared water wheel. There's a lot of options for generating power from moving water.
I don't think there is that much elevation change ( I have never measured) but there are places where the water seems to be moving fairly briskly so maybe some sort of water wheel would be a better option. I noticed that the powerspout web page had a calculator. Will have to plug some numbers into it when I have some time and see if it would be a feasible solution or not.