A home microhydro plant (2009)

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Post by fanf2 » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 12:43 PM UTC

A home microhydro plant (2009)
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Re: A home microhydro plant (2009)

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Post by cbluth » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 1:06 PM UTC

This is probably from 2012

Re: A home microhydro plant (2009)

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Post by aidos » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 1:07 PM UTC

That turned out to be a far larger operation than the “Micro” would imply!

Re: A home microhydro plant (2009)

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Post by chr1 » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 1:14 PM UTC

cbluth wrote: post #2

This is probably from 2012

Most of the images are from 2008 and the html file itself from 2009 https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/.

There is also an update from 2014 https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/intake.html

Re: A home microhydro plant (2009)

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Post by hk__2 » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 1:31 PM UTC

The sitemap here is quite impressive: https://ludens.cl/sitemap.htm

Re: A home microhydro plant (2009)

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Post by adamgamble » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 1:31 PM UTC

aidos wrote: post #3

That turned out to be a far larger operation than the “Micro” would imply!

I know that micro applied more to how much power it generated compared to a real hydro plant. But it cracked me up thinking it was going to be a small project.

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Re: A home microhydro plant (2009)

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Post by petee » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 1:51 PM UTC

This is quite an interesting read, although my eyebrows shot up after reading their plan to run 1kV on each of two wires + ground, that are only insulated for 600V...even if the pvc adds some insulation (i couldn't find the actual numbers off hand), anywhere the wire comes out of the conduit, it will risk breaching the insulation, no?

Re: A home microhydro plant (2009)

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Post by analog31 » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 2:08 PM UTC

hk__2 wrote: post #5

The sitemap here is quite impressive: https://ludens.cl/sitemap.htm

Indeed, and I would note that it appears to be written in plain HTML which means it will probably be both searchable (in an archive somewhere) and readable on a browser 100 years from now.

Re: A home microhydro plant (2009)

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Post by stephen_g » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 2:37 PM UTC

There’s a very cool hydro system built over a few years by a YouTuber called ‘Mr HydroHead’ over a bunch of videos spanning several years - the first here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=edEhvmNlYqk

Pretty impressive how much power these things can produce!

Re: A home microhydro plant (2009)

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Post by mtw » Sun, Jun 02, 2019, 2:38 PM UTC

How much would all this cost in 2019? I'm wondering because I see many more people turn towards solar panels, or alternatively windmills. First time I see a hydro plant of this size.