Discussed in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6895582
Related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20071836 from yesterday.
A home microhydro plant (2009)
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Re: A home microhydro plant (2009)
#32This 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?
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It looks like a good way to ruin an entire ecosystem.
Running water through pipes is going to destroy the surrounding forests how exactly? It might modify where the wetter parts of the area are, but I don't think that equates to destroying it.
There's more to water than forests. For example invertebrates, which play a key role in an ecosystem.
Next time thing before you talk.
Re: A home microhydro plant (2009)
#35I’m quite certain that any US state’s department of natural resources would take great exception to diversion of streams.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks like a good way to ruin an entire ecosystem.
Running water through pipes is going to destroy the surrounding forests how exactly? It might modify where the wetter parts of the area are, but I don't think that equates to destroying it.
Diverting the water through pipes will definitely cause significant ecological change.
Nature minus humans endlessly causes the same sort of change, but to second an earlier comment this would be a nightmare to try to do in a lot of areas. In my area the most dire thing to touch is the flow of water -- with three layers of government/protection agencies monitoring it with a very close eye.
Re: A home microhydro plant (2009)
#37I’m quite certain that any US state’s department of natural resources would take great exception to diversion of streams.
What are the relevant US regulations on doing something like this? I know some streams are crucial ecologically. But is it mostly regulated on a national, state or local level?
Re: A home microhydro plant (2009)
#38I’m quite certain that any US state’s department of natural resources would take great exception to diversion of streams.
Sure, but this is in Chile.
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#40I thought it was about some kind of farming.