Well, to be technical, youtube was created so one man could share an elephant dick joke, and it all got out of hand from there. This is a nominal use though.
@@PabloEscobar-kl4ui ua-cam.com/video/jNQXAC9IVRw/v-deo.html There's the _inventor of UA-cam,_ in the *first video ever uploaded to the site,* telling an elephant dick joke. I'm sorry, you were saying what now?...
This man is one of those rare people who are incredibly intelligent but would never talk down to you. I hope you're doing well sir. Thanks for the inspiration.
You've got it figured out. Micro hydro is the king of off grid power. Output competitive with a solar array, but uninterrupted. Those night hours add up. There is no better way to spin magnets than with water, being 700 times denser than air and continuously moving in creeks. That is of course if you happen to own land with moving water & an elevation change. That's the #1 thing I'll look for when I buy land.
RESPECT! I have degrees in mechanics electronics and chemistry, federal licenses from the FAA and FCC... You remind me of my uncle that only had a high school diploma but could build anything from scratch. Smart is as smart does.
Buddy's dad had an eighth grade education then went to WWII. He could build anything himself. He took an old atari game system and wired it for the local scouts for their soap box derby timing system. How could someone without any background use a computer system and make something that was so accurate. This was done in the 80's.
HOLY SHIT.... I've NEVER seen ANYONE build their own generator before. Im TRULY IMPRESSED...What a job well done and the attention to detail was fantastic. You are a true Craftsman!! Unbelievable... I am getting so jealous looking at all of these water powered systems and wishing I lived on land with access to a stream such as these properties... How great is that??? I was blown away by this build... Super Impressive!!!
This is the best hydro video on the net. Thank you sir, I learned a dozen practical things I did not know 10 minutes ago. Drill press as lathe, that's just awesome.
I found myself listening to every word and understanding hardly any but simply in awe of what you can accomplish... I realized what it is... Mike is every woman's Macgyver Fantasy.
You are a genius, you can build anything. I am a retired pipe fitter and have a lot of spar time. I was watching your saw mill video on building a saw mill and I am going to build one also. I have a lot of property and a lot of cedar on it, 30 foot trees and could turn them into a lot of money. Thanks for videos.
True genius Mark, you remind me of my grandfather, .... not saying ur old just the intelligence in real world meaningful information and how you explain to us. Thanks buddy
That is truly free green energy without any impact on the environment. Great idea to build a low speed alternator instead of using a gearbox. Congrats, enjoy the cold drinks!
Hey guys.. this guy is one of the best teacher in the world. He teach us much more than we realize. Technique, creativity, spirit of sharing, manufacture, electricity, and much more...
Thanks for sharing. Very nice presentation. A small suggestion. You could properly close up that dam with cement/concrete, to reduce leakage and put in a natural spill way, to handle excess water. Also, that bearing cap needs to be covered with a fully covered cap, I think, so that no rain water can enter the bearing cavity, under any circumstances.
Hello Mark that's a real nice little generator you made. You are not a dummy. You have head for engineering. God bless you sir and keep on doing these things they seem to give you some real enjoyment (and a little charge too(ha ha)). I am so impressed at how handy & inventive you are! Please don't let peoples criticisms get you down. That's just talk. You are doing the hard work.
Awesome job. I don't have those electrical skills but, I do like watching what others can do. I'm a woodworker and not experienced enough with electrical generation to do it.
You not obligated to know how exactly threes are grow to work with wood. Same with electricity. If you stick to practical things, use prebuild generator, consult a professional electrician (and google) about wires, solar inverters etc, let him inspect your work, and assemble circuits and automation for you. Then all be ok, so you can do it with some help i belive.
Not an expert at all but I’ve been observing water generators for a fair while. This appears to be the most reliable/least maintenance unit I’ve seen. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for making this video! I'm taking my 4th grade science class to a hydroelectric power plant for our Electromagnetism unit. It will be great to show them the same principles at work on a more human level in your video.
Great. You sound like your our a good teacher. Check out some of my other science project videos. I have been on the discover channel with some of them.
thats very impressive work!!! i saw a video from a guy that took an old washer with a plastic tub and it had a rotor staitor motor and he put blades on the shaft, drilled a hole in plastic drum and ran a pressur washer tip to blow water on it( changed tips for low and high water season to regulate pressure) he powered his whole house with it and only changes the bearings every 2 yrs and mitor lasts 10- 15 yrs..he got 110volts at about 30 amps and motor water pressure up to 60 amps..wow
I am simply blown away by your abilities and your dedication to working out the little details that turn an idea like this a working, successful model. I imagine you will be doing AC conversions given the innate issues with longer distance runs of DC. Keep up the great work!!!
I love you man!!!! It was like being there when I was a kid...As a very lazy adult I am looking inot making a standard three phase motor kick out more voltage at low rpm. That winding and truing was great to watch.
Great job! I see alot of comments on improving your design, I think the fact you made something that works in a straight forward uncomplicated way says a great deal. Practicality and simplicity makes for low maintenance . Impressive.
That’s very good! I’ve seen other videos on how to do this, but this design is the most rugged - if I needed something like this, this is the design I’d follow. Biggest seller - low maintenance needs.
Thats actually great. That might work for me! Low elevation difference from upstream to downstream. Seems like a logical and simple rig. All simple handmade parts. Fantastic.
That's brilliant! I just wish I had a stream/river I could tap into and do the same thing. That is so interesting! You have your own little "hoover dam"
Awesome job! Im sure you have heard it all from us guys but i want to tell u a short story..My Grandad had a creek also but he went up the creek a couple hundred ft and built a wooden flume out of 1x12s .Diverted it through a horizontal set up and spun a pelton wheel and ran his little house on batteries and 12 volt system.The wheel spun at high speed .Just another story ..as a kid i thought it was really cool.I'm building a sawmill but your generator deal is way ahead of my project...good luck to you and keep going.Maybe you can teach a lot more folks about magnetic gen sets..
Great work Mark. You demonstrated this very well and built an excellent hyrdropower generator. Many comments presented are accurate regarding the conversion of AC to DC. You may wish to consider the transmission of your alternating current rather than direct current because AC can withstand long distance lines, hence why most LDPDS' use AC current. Edison was wrong when he pushed DC to DC because of the immense amount of loss, however Tesla was on the money. Instead, bring your full bridge rectifier closer to home and get the most out of your system (even charge an extra battery with that extra voltage). Again, this is great work and I would be thrilled to have such a great source of power so close to home. I do have great solar and wind potential and I was just researching different stator designs. You really broke the mold (no pun intended) on this one.
this seems very reminiscent of something I have seen at a place called coral castle, and your comment about harmony there may have made something click that I have been trying to figure out for years having to do with reducing resistance in an electric motor
Oh how I wish I had more understanding of electrical engineering to the point being able to build such things as my own generators. Outstanding work my friend, very fascinating indeed.
That's Awesome I don't know what else to say it amazes me what some people are able to do at home with a few C-clamps you da Man keep up the Great work
That is one classy piece of engineering. How much power do you reckon it produces with that head of water? It would be nice to know the efficiency - although I can see why you've sacrificed some of that in the interests of low maintenance and reduced critter-cull.
I thoroughly enjoyed your video.i have thought many times of doing this same thing since I have a creek such as yours.i really enjoyed your skills since I am both a lead instrument tech a electrician I can truly appreciate you skills.your use of casting and winding of the stator was enjoyable.please keep producing these amazing videos.i,ve been retired 16 years but still enjoy seeing my former crafts being put to good use.
he wouldnt be able to answer any of them, pay attention to him and actually have any understanding of this shit and youll notice right away hes just randomly throwing around words and phrases he dosent understand, and he has no actual understanding of the mechanics behind this device.
i been studying the powers of the vortex... you should look up lily pumps & work backwards. as impressive as this hydro gen set is, with your skills I bet you could get much more out of it by making a spiral tapered turbine impeller for this machine. Again Nice workmanship! Murf!
I can pretty much make anything if I have the time to do it. What I do and all the materials I have is at work. I live in Odenville Alabama which is north from Birmingham like you're heading toward Gadsden Alabama which is the same direction going toward Chattanooga Tennessee. The type of things I do is we take them apart and put them back the way they came. For me to make something like that I would have to invest a lot of money personally and it would not be economic for me to build it for you. I have been trying to build a generator out of a ceiling fan. But as always when you have hobbies other things get in the way. I am very impressed but what you did at your own home you should be proud of yourself that is a great job. Some people I work with are not that picky to do things right they rushed to quick and wind up doing it twice in one day. You're the type of person if you are in that field would be eager to learn and proud enough to do it right the first time.
absolutely fantastic...i love these kind of things. how i wish i had a flowing river on my land! cannot meet you i am in southern hemisphere down in SA cheers
that looks like a axle hub and bearing assymbly from a garden trailer or boat trailer and most guys i know switched from greese to gear oil because oil will lubricate bearings better vs greese that is thick..same principle as a old pickup rear axle, you fill the differencial with oil and it runs thru to both axke bearings( most get 500k miles b4 a gear oil change)
Awesome. The vertical design mean that you can regulate the rpms more effectively than a horizontal wheel that is at the mercy of the speed water is flowing at.
@@markp0177 Hi Amazing job Do you have your old stator ? And if you still have it do you want to sell it? Or can you tell me of what can of materials is made?
Nice work Mark, As an alternative to the plank - vortex attenuation - consider a disk set to water-air interface level, to isolate atmosphere pressure forcing air into the vertical hydro channel. The disk may encounter a force no more than 1 ATM x area. I agree with you that vortex in the transmission of a specific rotation promotes efficiency in this system. You have a counter clockwise turbin (camera view) and the wanted vortex rotation shall also be in the same direction down the hydro channel. To promote wanted vortex, you may add - stator fins - just before the current change from horizontal to vertical. Although stator fins (flow diverting fins) just before the driven turbine can increase system efficiency as would jet engines do, however the diversion effort will harvest energy out of the hydro flow, leading to a suboptimal system efficiency that should be avoided when possible. Hope this helps,
This right here is what UA-cam was made for. Well done man.
Well, to be technical, youtube was created so one man could share an elephant dick joke, and it all got out of hand from there. This is a nominal use though.
@@AtlasReburdened no it wasn't
@@PabloEscobar-kl4ui ua-cam.com/video/jNQXAC9IVRw/v-deo.html
There's the _inventor of UA-cam,_ in the *first video ever uploaded to the site,* telling an elephant dick joke.
I'm sorry, you were saying what now?...
Mmhm. Wish UA-cam didn’t randomly support false copyrights.
@@AtlasReburdened can you not read? I said "No it wasn't"
This man is one of those rare people who are incredibly intelligent but would never talk down to you. I hope you're doing well sir. Thanks for the inspiration.
You've got it figured out. Micro hydro is the king of off grid power. Output competitive with a solar array, but uninterrupted. Those night hours add up. There is no better way to spin magnets than with water, being 700 times denser than air and continuously moving in creeks. That is of course if you happen to own land with moving water & an elevation change. That's the #1 thing I'll look for when I buy land.
Dude the magnets make the vision wobbly. You can see the energy.
This is amazing!
RESPECT! I have degrees in mechanics electronics and chemistry, federal licenses from the FAA and FCC... You remind me of my uncle that only had a high school diploma but could build anything from scratch. Smart is as smart does.
Hey man can you build this from scratch? LOL.
Respect is respect.. smart is smart.. someone will get anything just like his effort.
Buddy's dad had an eighth grade education then went to WWII. He could build anything himself. He took an old atari game system and wired it for the local scouts for their soap box derby timing system. How could someone without any background use a computer system and make something that was so accurate. This was done in the 80's.
@@davemwangi05 can you build a wife from scratch?
@@tristan6509 I love sarcasm. I will try to build her. LOL
HOLY SHIT.... I've NEVER seen ANYONE build their own generator before. Im TRULY IMPRESSED...What a job well done and the attention to detail was fantastic. You are a true Craftsman!! Unbelievable... I am getting so jealous looking at all of these water powered systems and wishing I lived on land with access to a stream such as these properties... How great is that??? I was blown away by this build... Super Impressive!!!
+SquillyMon Thanks for the kind words.
WELL DESERVED
Thank god FINALY some normal people good to see man
I don't understand what people could not like about this that was very pleasant to watch thank you
This is the best hydro video on the net. Thank you sir, I learned a dozen practical things I did not know 10 minutes ago. Drill press as lathe, that's just awesome.
Film in fast motion and no talking. Best videos I ever saw
You never cease to amaze me with your ingenuity. From farm implements to real world applications that actually work.
Thanks
It is evidently the best construction I have ever seen on youtube. Very good job!!!
I found myself listening to every word and understanding hardly any but simply in awe of what you can accomplish... I realized what it is... Mike is every woman's Macgyver Fantasy.
Who says people in the mountains are stupid? This guy may be the smartest person I've run across in many years.
I'm going off-grid and I'm brainstorming on a couple ideas. This is exactly what I'm working for! Blown away by your rotor/stator, amazing work
Look up Mr Hydro Head, he goes over his hydro electric system in multiple very detailed videos
What it takes to make this, is the same thing that makes America great. Hard work, and perseverance. Great job.
You are a genius, you can build anything. I am a retired pipe fitter and have a lot of spar time. I was watching your saw mill video on building a saw mill and I am going to build one also. I have a lot of property and a lot of cedar on it, 30 foot trees and could turn them into a lot of money. Thanks for videos.
Good job, my friend. Being a lazy guy, I think I would get automotive alternators and put them in an array. Plentiful, long-lived, and proven.
True genius Mark, you remind me of my grandfather, .... not saying ur old just the intelligence in real world meaningful information and how you explain to us. Thanks buddy
That is truly free green energy without any impact on the environment. Great idea to build a low speed alternator instead of using a gearbox.
Congrats, enjoy the cold drinks!
Hey guys.. this guy is one of the best teacher in the world.
He teach us much more than we realize. Technique, creativity, spirit of sharing, manufacture, electricity, and much more...
My favourite part is when hes testing the rpm and it was soo quite. That's when you know you've built something properly. Smooth as silk.
You my friend are a true genius! I wish we were neighbors.
Dude. I want to be as cool as you when I grow up.... I'm still 35. Bravo.
MARK, it's people like you who deserve to be custodians and caretakers of our beautiful & unique planet. Thank you for your example.
I'm always impressed by the cleverness of people and how they can accomplish things. Well done!
Thanks for sharing. Very nice presentation. A small suggestion. You could properly close up that dam with cement/concrete, to reduce leakage and put in a natural spill way, to handle excess water. Also, that bearing cap needs to be covered with a fully covered cap, I think, so that no rain water can enter the bearing cavity, under any circumstances.
Hello Mark that's a real nice little generator you made. You are not a dummy. You have head for engineering. God bless you sir and keep on doing these things they seem to give you some real enjoyment (and a little charge too(ha ha)). I am so impressed at how handy & inventive you are! Please don't let peoples criticisms get you down. That's just talk. You are doing the hard work.
Great set up my man. As long as the water supply is continuous you will have green energy. Congratulations and well done.
That is an awesome design by a super-clever guy!
Agreed completely.
Mark, great piece of home made engineering and a machine that works to prove it.
The guy obviously knows what he's doing, thinking big, thank you for sharing!
Im floored.. this guy is a genius. Simplicity and eco friendliness combined
Awesome job. I don't have those electrical skills but, I do like watching what others can do. I'm a woodworker and not experienced enough with electrical generation to do it.
You not obligated to know how exactly threes are grow to work with wood. Same with electricity. If you stick to practical things, use prebuild generator, consult a professional electrician (and google) about wires, solar inverters etc, let him inspect your work, and assemble circuits and automation for you. Then all be ok, so you can do it with some help i belive.
Fantastic. Don't see enough of these in relation to wind turbines. Nice job!
HAY it’s people like You that keep this world going Brother!
Respect, what a quality design from scratch!
What a crystal clear stream you're a lucky fella
I'm helping my uncle find the optimum energy generation setup for his off grid house. You, sir, made my job a lot easier
This is the coolest thing I've seen all day. Very inventive, and I learned something new today. Thank you.
Not an expert at all but I’ve been observing water generators for a fair while. This appears to be the most reliable/least maintenance unit I’ve seen. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for making this video! I'm taking my 4th grade science class to a hydroelectric power plant for our Electromagnetism unit. It will be great to show them the same principles at work on a more human level in your video.
Great. You sound like your our a good teacher. Check out some of my other science project videos. I have been on the discover channel with some of them.
That is a brilliant and simple set up. hats off to you sir.
This is one of the best videos I've been A toolmaker 40 years also a tinkerer Great job Tim
Great video! People like you inspire me so much, I'm glad that youtube exists
BTW You have very good Explanation Skills"
thats very impressive work!!! i saw a video from a guy that took an old washer with a plastic tub and it had a rotor staitor motor and he put blades on the shaft, drilled a hole in plastic drum and ran a pressur washer tip to blow water on it( changed tips for low and high water season to regulate pressure) he powered his whole house with it and only changes the bearings every 2 yrs and mitor lasts 10- 15 yrs..he got 110volts at about 30 amps and motor water pressure up to 60 amps..wow
Marty T channel of YT. Just completed another hydro system install with a friend and explains everything...885 watts continuous;
Never new that magnets "run in harmony", fantastic video, good job.
I am simply blown away by your abilities and your dedication to working out the little details that turn an idea like this a working, successful model. I imagine you will be doing AC conversions given the innate issues with longer distance runs of DC. Keep up the great work!!!
Wow, that’s pretty cool. Thanks for showing the part about casting -> Drill-press grinding.
I love you man!!!! It was like being there when I was a kid...As a very lazy adult I am looking inot making a standard three phase motor kick out more voltage at low rpm. That winding and truing was great to watch.
Great job! I see alot of comments on improving your design, I think the fact you made something that works in a straight forward uncomplicated way says a great deal. Practicality and simplicity makes for low maintenance . Impressive.
That’s very good! I’ve seen other videos on how to do this, but this design is the most rugged - if I needed something like this, this is the design I’d follow. Biggest seller - low maintenance needs.
This is GREAT content! Thanks for sharing your experience. If you ever revisit this, I'd like to see more of your stator construction.
Thats actually great. That might work for me! Low elevation difference from upstream to downstream. Seems like a logical and simple rig. All simple handmade parts. Fantastic.
That's brilliant! I just wish I had a stream/river I could tap into and do the same thing. That is so interesting! You have your own little "hoover dam"
This is the best system I have ever seen. I would love to buy one.
Great job sir. I appreciate you making your own stator & wrapping wire. Super simple super functional. Well done.
Awesome job! Im sure you have heard it all from us guys but i want to tell u a short story..My Grandad had a creek also but he went up the creek a couple hundred ft and built a wooden flume out of 1x12s .Diverted it through a horizontal set up and spun a pelton wheel and ran his little house on batteries and 12 volt system.The wheel spun at high speed .Just another story ..as a kid i thought it was really cool.I'm building a sawmill but your generator deal is way ahead of my project...good luck to you and keep going.Maybe you can teach a lot more folks about magnetic gen sets..
This just goes to show you, that the way a person speaks, has no inclination as to how smart, or what their IQ is! Brilliant!
Great work Mark. You demonstrated this very well and built an excellent hyrdropower generator. Many comments presented are accurate regarding the conversion of AC to DC. You may wish to consider the transmission of your alternating current rather than direct current because AC can withstand long distance lines, hence why most LDPDS' use AC current. Edison was wrong when he pushed DC to DC because of the immense amount of loss, however Tesla was on the money.
Instead, bring your full bridge rectifier closer to home and get the most out of your system (even charge an extra battery with that extra voltage). Again, this is great work and I would be thrilled to have such a great source of power so close to home. I do have great solar and wind potential and I was just researching different stator designs. You really broke the mold (no pun intended) on this one.
Nice welds, Mark! This was fantastic to watch.
this seems very reminiscent of something I have seen at a place called coral castle, and your comment about harmony there may have made something click that I have been trying to figure out for years having to do with reducing resistance in an electric motor
That's very clever, and some consideration of the wild life, nice.
Oh how I wish I had more understanding of electrical engineering to the point being able to build such things as my own generators. Outstanding work my friend, very fascinating indeed.
David Kozal so do I and I think I’m going to start reading up. I’m only 57 I still have time to learn. That was very cool 😎
That's Awesome I don't know what else to say it amazes me what some people are able to do at home with a few C-clamps you da Man keep up the Great work
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Dude, that is such a cool setup.
Southern man's goal in life is to make everything true
you're a true engineer.. love your passion to build renewable energy
Excellent! You sir are an engineer and inventor!!🙂👍
engineer yes, but inventor neither mistake :-)
Incredible craftmanship! 👏
you can be as rich as you want . this kind of stuff makes me green with envy.
That is one classy piece of engineering. How much power do you reckon it produces with that head of water? It would be nice to know the efficiency - although I can see why you've sacrificed some of that in the interests of low maintenance and reduced critter-cull.
Great job Mark, if you had high winds you could add blades on top to get better rpm.
I thoroughly enjoyed your video.i have thought many times of doing this same thing since I have a creek such as yours.i really enjoyed your skills since I am both a lead instrument tech a electrician I can truly appreciate you skills.your use of casting and winding of the stator was enjoyable.please keep producing these amazing videos.i,ve been retired 16 years but still enjoy seeing my former crafts being put to good use.
I need next door neighbors like this guy. I'll be like a kid with a thousand questions.
he wouldnt be able to answer any of them, pay attention to him and actually have any understanding of this shit and youll notice right away hes just randomly throwing around words and phrases he dosent understand, and he has no actual understanding of the mechanics behind this device.
@Ryan Plethra ikr hilarious
I am very humbled by this guy. Great work!
I Watch Videos About An 4 Hours Now, This Was The Best Video Iv Seen Since Then
Mark, you guys are great! I’d love to do this in the UK👍🏻
i been studying the powers of the vortex... you should look up lily pumps & work backwards. as impressive as this hydro gen set is, with your skills I bet you could get much more out of it by making a spiral tapered turbine impeller for this machine. Again Nice workmanship!
Murf!
I think he's fine with the amount of power he gets. Why overengineer a working solution? 🤔
Man you're so ready for The zombie apocalypse.
Seriously Great Video.
What's that old saying? Something like "necessity is the mother of all inventions...." or something like that. Very true.
It’d be cool to see a video on how you make the stator casting. This is awesome stuff!!!
This is amazing! I appreciate your engnuitity and design. Thanks for sharing! Straight up ingenious!!!
Rewind motors for 40 years, that's pretty impressive for someone doing this at home
Hi Markbrige
Can you make an estator like that one and sell it to me?
Where are you located?
I can pretty much make anything if I have the time to do it. What I do and all the materials I have is at work. I live in Odenville Alabama which is north from Birmingham like you're heading toward Gadsden Alabama which is the same direction going toward Chattanooga Tennessee. The type of things I do is we take them apart and put them back the way they came. For me to make something like that I would have to invest a lot of money personally and it would not be economic for me to build it for you. I have been trying to build a generator out of a ceiling fan. But as always when you have hobbies other things get in the way. I am very impressed but what you did at your own home you should be proud of yourself that is a great job. Some people I work with are not that picky to do things right they rushed to quick and wind up doing it twice in one day. You're the type of person if you are in that field would be eager to learn and proud enough to do it right the first time.
absolutely fantastic...i love these kind of things. how i wish i had a flowing river on my land! cannot meet you i am in southern hemisphere down in SA
cheers
This is Amazing! This is what America is all about, letting people just be free to invent, tinker , learn.
Great and thanks for sharing this !
grease in the fitting once a year?
Damn...that's how everything should be to maintain
that looks like a axle hub and bearing assymbly from a garden trailer or boat trailer and most guys i know switched from greese to gear oil because oil will lubricate bearings better vs greese that is thick..same principle as a old pickup rear axle, you fill the differencial with oil and it runs thru to both axke bearings( most get 500k miles b4 a gear oil change)
Awesome. The vertical design mean that you can regulate the rpms more effectively than a horizontal wheel that is at the mercy of the speed water is flowing at.
That's some good ol American make it happen stuff there!
A homemade turbine generator! That's know how right there! My hats off to you my friend.
New subscriber.
yes! is that a vehicle wheel hub for your bearing spindle!? love everything about this. true in home innovation. great job!
Its the axel from a 3500 lb trailer.
@@markp0177
Sir how much?? We have a creek
Sorry. I no longer offer the generator, I just don't have the extra time to make them.
@@markp0177 Hi
Amazing job
Do you have your old stator ?
And if you still have it do you want to sell it?
Or can you tell me of what can of materials is made?
@@boycotatlanta I sold it a few years ago. I made it out of fiberglass with several steel rings.
This is the best home design I've seen yet
Sir, it was awesome watching your video, you are a very clever person and your application in this job is such a credit to you.... so well done
Cool project, just would be nice to know how many power you can make with this. and how much in one year total
greetings from germany
Nice work Mark,
As an alternative to the plank - vortex attenuation - consider a disk set to water-air interface level, to isolate atmosphere pressure forcing air into the vertical hydro channel. The disk may encounter a force no more than 1 ATM x area.
I agree with you that vortex in the transmission of a specific rotation promotes efficiency in this system. You have a counter clockwise turbin (camera view) and the wanted vortex rotation shall also be in the same direction down the hydro channel.
To promote wanted vortex, you may add - stator fins - just before the current change from horizontal to vertical. Although stator fins (flow diverting fins) just before the driven turbine can increase system efficiency as would jet engines do, however the diversion effort will harvest energy out of the hydro flow, leading to a suboptimal system efficiency that should be avoided when possible.
Hope this helps,
Thanks for all the effort in filming and posting this. Great work!
Wow. That's real responsible living. Great job.
Excellent clear and concise video, Thanks for making it.
Awesome! I wish I had a creek like that on my place. Good job!