Can a Waterwheel Generate Electricity?
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- #shorts Hydroelectric waterwheels are a viable proposition for producing electricity without requiring complex control systems.
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Yes. The answer is yes.
No. The answer is sometimes, like, "is the current fast and strong enough.".?
@@majkdave No, the answer is yes. To the question "can a waterwheel generate electricity?", the answer is yes. The question was not "under what conditions can a waterwheel generate electricity?".
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Stupid ass question, obviously it can
Such innovation...
For the production of electricity of higher voltage, a generator should have:
1. Stronger magnets
2. More turns in its coil
3. Quick relative motion between the
magnet and coil
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I believe this is done at the box where it has a gear ratio change. The wheel is turning slow with a lot of torque and that can mean a smaller gear turning faster with less torque.
It would take an electrical engineer about an hour to explain why numerous complex control systems would be required to maximize this setup's electrical power output and to match it to either a battery or some other load that can except the variable output power ie as the stream speed varies daily or seasonally.
There are very few modern electrical loads that can directly accept this setups unguaranteed output voltage, power AND frequency, presuming its an AC generator. Note that the power and voltage comment applies to a DC generator...
Directly driving a drum to wash clothes, a spindle to turn wood, or maybe a rotisserie is possible, but seriously how many people would bother today...?
99% of the time IMO comments are a waste of time... few people read them, and even fewer people appreciate them. The comment process gives people a false or minimal indeterminate sense of contributing something of value. Most people don't care to hear other random people's oppinions. Most facts are useless drivel with zero useful factual objective information.
I would be surprised if more then one person appreciates THIS comment... and there is no guarantee that anyone will.
I do
Actually I agree with you buddy
I defer to the comments section frequently on videos like this in hopes of finding comments like the first half of your comment. I agree with the impractical setup for electrical generation. More complex controls would be necessary for sure to make it viable.
Also, I noticed one flap on the water wheel was bent from damage. So logs and debris floating down river would damage or jam this system. Better to have a peltier wheel or water turbine setup with clever filtering methods.
This my waterwheel - this company stole my footage. It's an AC generator making "wild" AC up to 600V. Rectified into DC, then inverted into 240V AC. And yes it makes power. I'm not an EE either so it isn't rocket science. Just like a windmill but slower RPM
I often pause the video at the beginning and read the comments first... I agree with you that most people don't give a damn, but the few who do are probably the ones that actually matter though, so it's probably for the best. Your points about handling the produced current are solved with a grid tie inverter... They're fairly inexpensive for people wanting to diy something like this, solar, wind, ect. Think about it, solar produces DC that varies drastically, and I believe wind turbines are also DC generators, but regardless, they are also inconsistent. Water wheels like this have an enormous amount of torque that can handle gearing a generator to spin at its ideal rpm to produce 60hz from the start. I've been pondering using continuously varying pulleys that can be governed to keep the generator at its ideal speed and help with initial startup. I have a background in engineering, but not hydraulic. I'm working on meeting with a friend who's a retired aquatic engineer. I'd rather see rivers lined with bigger versions of these than cover the desert with solar panels that are very expensive to recycle and only have a 20 year life span. And wind turbines just need to be ditched all together until we come up with a better design which some companies are making great progress on doing. Most turbines never even reach net zero carbon emissions before they're decommissioned. It's a joke to green energy and environmental impact! Hydro is incredible, constant, and dependable, it's just not as powerful no different than solar or wind. The biggest benefit is they're constructed with abundant, easily recyclable materials!
depending on the load requirement the gear ratio would need adjustment
I agree 100%, running way too slow unless it’s under 100% load
@@gjohns316 probably charging so seems like it's loaded down
It’s charging batteries it’s not direct flow
It is a good idea but it can produce more electricity if the vans of the waterwheel faces the follow of the riverflow rather than the vans against the follow of the water.
Good point
It's kinda counter intuitive but most are this way, so I'm pretty sure it's more efficient. I think they're at an angle with a hole drilled in the corner so the water can be drained out as it's entering on the other side..
I've actually researched this a lot, I'm going to buy a couple wind turbines melt small plastic cups that can catch water at the tips.That way ya can use it the rain snow or shine as long as you can access a creek..
That’s what creates the force for it to spin, it would be cool to engineer a water wheel you can manually adjust all vans at the same time in the same angles.
You want the vanes to be in the direction they are in to catch the water. You do want the inside diameter to be at the same level as the water though for the best efficiency.
What would you want electricity for when you can listen to that banjo drive you around the bend...😅😅
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Haven’t laughed so hard in ages.
#banjo sound .😂😂😂😂
“Can a waterwheel produce electricity?”
. . . Have you heard of a Dam?
The waterwheel isn’t placed in the right direction. The “shovels” should get the water inside, and not from the outside. Dont know if you understand me, but it’s like taking the soup with a spoon that is upside down.
They are turned the right way. Problem is they are too deep in the water. And that causes extra drag.
I agree with @reznap0002
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Not the right place to put this. I'm a believer in Christ, but this does NOT belong here.
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Great idea BUT . . .
This 'Inventor' should just have BROADENED THE BLADES running in the water to have DOUBLE or TRIPLE the GENERATING CAPACITY as this Stream of water totally allows for that to be done !
TORQUE on driving Shaft would immediately multiplied and thus the GAIN of electricity also increased at MINIMAL COST INCREASE.
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how much power does it make though, and does it even work in the winter
It the same as dam
Electric
But dam
They fill up before they release
So I expect around 150w
Or 100w or even more
Moving water doesn't freeze easily. That's why you are supposed to leave your faucet dripping when it's really cold out
Most of countries use flowing watsr to generate electricity and supply to all of houses and residents
Can you give some examples? I've been looking into this wondering why it's not widely used and have found very few commercial examples. Actually none, just one German company working on it. I'm talking about the river generation that doesn't include any type of dyke or levey.
We use flowing water to power electricity for my country. We join together 4 rivers to produce the flow
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I have a creek in my back yard. I own the property to the center of the Creek. Is it legal to do something like this? How do you deal with the level change from summer storms and dry weeks. Our Creek can rise 3-4 feet. If anyone could help or has completed a project like this I would appreciate any help.
it is better to have an aqueduct system feeding the water to the top of the wheel. Drastically reduces the lost energy that can been in the water water parts around the wheel.
Yeah, the wheel can spin faster maybe😂
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i learn alot from the comments as the peopke who post 6hease kunds of videos most of the time dont pit a name on it or idenify what were looking at.but usually theres some sharp people who have already seen ut and comment filling in the blanke for me,which is appriciated by me.
but to a degree your right as thesse kunds of coups are like rocking in a rocking chair you dont get nowhere but it gives you something to do,it would be helpfull if people pisted what they knew explaining it so that othets could do it
im will8ng to do such a thing but do you think that how to hand drywall how to taoe,float and finish it eoukd be usedlfull to anyone ?? because tho i know how to do slot of things.thets a milion holes in it o camt explain anything from top to botton in detain be suse i dont lnow how to do anything really usefull that aint been already done.
but your fredback would be appriciated this time because if you dsid to me post snything no matter how big or how sml whatever it is if you know it complete then yes that would be usefull if uou laied out in fetail how to do a thing and why
that would be usefull to me
Maybe im just really high but dude nah yall mfs don't get to skip over how it looked like they was moving a fuckin island for a second
Preppers should get water wheels for electricity generation in addition to wind turbines and solar panels.
This is the first generation of modern hydroelectric power. Not some revolutionary new idea
Looks like they're about 15% efficient with that setup... Look at all the white water around that thing
Just look at the relative speed of the water vs the wheel, it’s much less than 15%
This had been a thing for such a long time? Not really that impressive if you ask me..
You broke my brain because I thought the land was moving
Sooo it does work??
My same question
@roachdoggjr1940 but HOW? How does the wheel transfer the electricity, what do you need to forge to make spark?
@roachdoggjr1940 No, if the power went out, I realized that I don't know how to generate electricity or make a battery to run anything.
@roachdoggjr1940 Well just because your a gay man doesn't mean your not smart. You do whatever you want with whatever guy you want to and really beat them cheeks!
Now about the electricity, does being gay have anything to do with it?
What happens if we make cars take electricity from water so we don’t need to use gas no more
Open tesla turbine is a better water wheel and easy to diy.
This is how hydropower plant like dam generate electricity
So can this be adjusted for different heights of the river flow? There are constant ebbs and flows that change the height of rivers constantly. I see this mechanism being extremely damaged when a river swells and a fallen tree smashes into it....
That whole steel beam rotates allowing the wheel to rise with the river and roll over any debris.
My power company has the same issues. A tree falls across the line, a squirrel chews into a transformer, a thunderstorm knocks it out a car hits a pole. ECT.
Are u people engineers?
You have the bloody vanes on the water wheel backwards!
Tide goes in and out smart guy 😂😂 so the water comes both ways
@@loveformoney1402looks like a river to me, pretty sure they only flow one direction. Tides are for the ocean.
They hit that Nelly I am number one with the banjos tho! No bs they ate
The fins on this wheel need movement comming downward vertically to use gravity. The way it is has too much resistance from being slightly down in the water. Perpendicular (90degrees) to the edge of the wheel, i would think, would be🙂better. If you have it just touching the water, i wonder if the wheel would turn backwards when the wind blows the top of the water on a river the opposite up-river dirrection😂?.
It needs to spin a lot faster. Where's the meter to show power output?
Yes, a water wheel could produce electricity. But it's so little in so poor it's useless
I know this because my last name is price
I am one of one's
Yes, I am in fact. I'm the one that came up with the idea that idiot ran with
Define previously built Damn that had no electric power plants
These came from the great depression mostly and can be found all over West Virginia and the East Coast and some other places. But west virginia was a gold mine
Tons of dams from the great depression, not a single power plant on any of them.
Not to wake up there
My name is price. I'm the one that came up the idea my father ran with it
For w v hydro hydraulic power company west virginia
Just use car alternator, 150A @ 14v
Car alternator requires much higher speed but also wastes about 50% of the energy as heat.
How much power does this generate?
How much water this process consume?
I like it
At this point I think it is going the wrong way if it's trying to catch, store and use energy 😊
Yep.. which s why it's going so slow. Makes me wonder how much resistance it's turning.. VS how much power it's making.
Can’t wait for rockstar to add this feature in rdr3
A whirlpool generator is better
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Dams do it all the time.
Dam good idea too.
dam right
I mean, yeah.
How does it turn to electricity
A simple yes would suffice
the turbine can be lowered for a little more power, more powerful magnets to pull, after those combinations has been tweaked to it's best potential you'll have power for days.
Actually you would want to raise it. Inside of the vane circle should be no deeper in the water than the surface of it.
If the turbine is lowered there is more resistance on the top and the turbine might not even spin fast or worse stop, it's spinning concurrently against water flow
A generator is most efficient at 1800 rpm, water wheels go very slowly but have tremendous torque, so a larger reduction would aid in the effectiveness.
Also using a water channel means that the water can’t go around it, therefore providing more torque
Thanks i will use your advice to research more and build mine one day
@@kikyoass , also bigger wheel increases torque, but requires a greater elevation change if the water is going over it rather than under.
That wheel moves slow which means you'll need a gear between it and the generator. You could reshape the wheel so it spin faster but you'll still need a gearbox unless you water to dam the river/stream
Wow, amazing
That not enough wheel
Guys my house is next to a river like this its constantly flowing with water ..im in south africa how much do i need to have this????
If you studied engineering ubuzakwazi and save money
Excellent
how about making it lighter weight? and how much the power production is approx?
The wheel rotate too slow
uhh...yeah, definitely, it will charge my iphone in a day.
Is there no way to create another wheel or something powered by the bigger wheel that increase the current generated into the bigger wheel? 👀
Dam exits should be designed to utilize many of these, especially in the white water.
It’s adorable.
Whats so complex about old technology 😂 ig its like going back to the moon
Power & price ?
Let me explain the
After electric generation is the water is usable or not
after some filtering i think it would be usable
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So relaxing .
But why not?
Well? Can it? 😂
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so slow,
My dream
Why not !
Every thing is possible 👍
That wheel is so ascetic its dysfunctional lol
With damming and batteries you can also store the energy
How much kw does that produce in an hour?
having a flowing water resource is also convenient
Someone, please please tell me what tune this is.
totally wrong elements and physics
isn't that just...hydropower ?
FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!! :)
No, it can convert energy.
A waterwheel is a great way to generate power, but it’s not that efficient. I would rather instead use a lily leaf impeller that has so many leaves that it looks more like a lily leaf turbine impeller so that I can keep the maximum amount of power out of it without the loss in efficiency
Yeah ok sure you'll survive out there with your lilly leaf jury rigged turbine impeller bro 👌😳🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Those lily leaf impellers really are sick, though.
to much speed can destroy
You don’t even need water…. Just magnets…. Look at Stonehenge or other monoliths that have magnetic energy around them.. if, perhaps you build a small Stonehenge using poles with magnets then attach a long wheel or fan with magnets attached which then attach to a generator, then that propulsion alone would allow the wheel to turn using positive and negative friction to power the generator thus creating electricity…. So many ways but the easier the better and water might not always be in that area so it’s better better to create something self-sustaining with her without the presence of additional elements
Yes
Obviously depends upon water flow
Wow
Great
Oh.....Nice !
Good job !
Congratulation !
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Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew 6:19-21 Jesus saves!
@@JESUSISLORD......... thanks
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If this toxic mess is how survival works, then its only a matter of time before cannibalism starts
what energy transformation is happening