Micro Hydro Turbines: The Expert 

Great Job! Micro-Hydro has virtually no impact on the environment and the river flow. My minor in college was hydro-power. It’s awsome! Many installs can be housed in tiny sheds that are almost hidden. The local fly fishermen often bragged about this one portion of the river. For decades, few were aware that it was a tailway for a three turbine plant built in 1924! Three horizontal Francis turbines generating about 35 KW each. FO Stanley was famous for his steam cars and the hotel featured in the movie The Shinning. Few knew of his power plant. They drove past it on the way to the national park but few realized it was an operating hydro plant. It was online continuously from 1909 to 1983 when a damn break wiped it out. The dam was an irrigation dam not related to the power plant. This is why I jokingly refer to the Tesla as my favorite coal fired automobile!!!!!! Long Live Micro Hydro!!!!

With you sir my dream have come true I love this am from Nigeria

I will support you for this. I’m also a hydropower specialist

Yes there s a lot of clean energy we can have, in every small river, in windy places and sun heat.

Thanks for all the good comments, yes two- or even three tiered pricing is the only way to create a sound financial footing for green power. As for waves...ocean currents... send me story ideas and I will cover them. Rgds, The Filmmaker

Good opl like this will hopefully have this world! This man should not feel the need for anything! For he work he has done. I would like to personally thank him for his efforts. I hope they are 1000's more to follow in his foot steps!! I only wish I had enough water to run a hydro generator!

Great documentary...this is the way forward for Africa to develop, especially in those regions near the Zambezi and other mighty rivers. Will be contacting you shortly Pat, as we need something like this for Tilapia farm we're looking at establishing next to the Zambezi in Mozambique

Very nice video! Like it!

That's really great stuff. Unfortunatly you are right about state subsaties, consumers have been getting artificaly cheap electricity for years. We could only sell the electricity from our hydro by selling it to the public electricity companies and they would only pay for the avoided cost ie. that extra shovel of coal they didn't need to put on because of our generation. This meant we ran our hydro on very little income for about 20 years. At long last we are getting a fair price now.

Well done !!

your great sir, i think that's your life, keep it up sir jefftube,

Hi Pelton, Thanks for the insightful comment. Yes the end of state subsidies for Coal power and other environmentally damaging power generation technologies is a great thing. Next it would be nice to see a higher-than market price for locally produced power from renewables. Which makes sense since they support and benefit infrastructure and lower costs across the grid. Imagine a time when the Grid becomes a massive battery. Do you have links to some photos of your system? You also in SA?

we need more clean power like this

I am with you man micro hydro are the best option for this planet

looks like double trouble on the fish river .i do safety there every year love your set up nice on keep it up

Hi hillbilly, Thanks for the comment though not sure about your point, since Hoover Dam supplies the energy from Hydroelectric generators for the Nevada city of Las Vegas. However if your point is that Las vegas is a dramatic illustration of over-consumption and waste of hydropower energy, then I wholeheartedly agree.

clean, green, inexpensive, easy to maintain, practicality, 24/7 (unlike solar) and happiness! ^_^

I have the same vision for my country!

I hope to built many in my country!

Live in 'Vegas, We only get a small fraction of the dam's output. We have coal and solar plants (Mostly coal) producing the rest. Most of the power from the dam goes to Phoenix and LA..........

Nice video and I agree with most of the sentiments although,when I was in Capetown I was stunned that there was almost no sign of solar power systems despite there being lots of sun. Surely there is a business opportunity there?

Great video. Unfortunately, hydro power generation does not work just anywhere. I live in Victoria Australia, and although we have a large number of fast flowing rivers in the North-East of the state, flow rate diminishes during our summer months. NSW has a huge hydro-power system in operation fed by the melting snows from lake Jindabyne in the Kiewa valley. Cheers.

great work on developing electronic load controller,..as without it wont be economical,.i hope u did lot of work in those 9 months for developing that electronic load controller,.that to with limited resources,.great job,. i too had designed a electronic load controller using microcontroller,.im happy to share informations on this topics to any one,.

Nice

lvery best idia of small hydro

This is excellent. Is the governing system load diversion or is it water flow reduction? Water flow reduction for off peak would be the magic trick everyone is looking for.

cool vid this guy called Watt likes water power i recall

use a chamber which is uplift the water from stream and we can draw the water regularly

The primary purpose of any large scale dam is flood control and water storage. The hydro power is just a bonus. The coal industry needs to start paying for their true costs caused by pollution, and the oil industry needs to start paying for all the military costs needed to maintain the foreign supply chain.

Wow,good going! Been to Texas yet?😀

Wow! I need to take a trip to Africa :P

everyone all the way down the river can have their own micro hydros.

use siphon for production of electricity forever siphon gives extra atmospheric pressure so we have more energy density

Wow

What if there a drought?

Hoover Dam supply around 2% of the energy needed in Vegas, whatever its a waste or not.

Have you thougt about the tidewater in the BIG ocean?

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Why does the generator need a governor? I could understand on windmills so they dont go too fast and explode, but why a water turbine?

Hah. I loved how you totally owned him Jeff - But so politely

in India their are so many rivers which gives energy by using hydraulic system of turbine so gives your advice to Indian government help the poor people world wide

Fanxist, you can contact Vortex Hydro here: Vortex Hydro Systems Business type: manufacturer Product types: hydro energy systems (small). Service types: consulting, design, site survey and assessment services Address: 15 Schoeman st, Hofmeyr, South Africa 5930 Telephone: +27 488850132 FAX: +27 488850429

we can produce endless amount of energy through sea water hydrolysis .then we take hydrogen alone to high altitude ,where we combine it with atmospheric oxygen, and drop the formed water on hydraulic turbines as in dams.

wow, great job, i can only understand that the energy company's are only using coal & nuclear power for profit, if a small community & town could all pay into a project, we could wipe out high cost of power, I saw a guy on you tube using a tank that store water, Then it uses the pressure of the falling water on a turbine to then let the water go back into the overflow. this would also prevent flooding, if there was too much water flowing though the river. but it would mean we would need a large amount of though tank to prevent this from happening. I came across an answerer a guy said, he said what if the water was to become too cold, well i can only think that, that you could have a small thermostat inside the tank to prevent the tank from dropping to a cold temperature. to prevent this happen. this would cost power, but would be a back up to prevent the system from jamming or braking completely as it made of plastic, "well the tank anyway". if you could have a auto system to switch this thermostat on, using the power of the hydro system to take so much power, but to limit the temperature so it would not fall to below 0c degrees. This would keep the electrical system going & only use a small amount of energy to heat the tank in the mean time. well the weather warms up a bit. then the auto thermal stat would shut off after temperature of atmosphere warm up. Given you all the full energy it generated in the first place. Looking at the pro & con to this. solar can only give power during the day. Turbines are dangerous to human health. due to there sound & flicking shadows. Sound can vibrate though human as sound travel though solids. That why they are set up in the sea. I saw how it had destroy a town. As energy company's ask to let out your land, then you sign it without reading it because they said it was green, you understand that need money so offer you something small to pay off a bit of your land mortgage . They then build the thing all over your land. I doesn't matter to them, they can build them right next to your house then it driver you mad, i have heard & saw a family in america. they moved into a hotel because it was that bad. The flickering in the window of the turbine drove them insane. I can say they don't always spin due to the wind. That sometimes they need shut off if they spin to fast. Ice can shatter sometimes. so there no big investment to wind. there a waste of money. the cost of building them far outweigh your profit unless they can spin for 70 years. So i say here that micro hydro is a great of source energy. it has a little impact on the environment & are fairing cheap for the investment. I live in wales we have lots of river & we hardly use them what a wait of energy. sorry for the large amount of writing people. hope you all the best & thank for reading if you had chance.

Nuclear is actually the safest energy source we have. Sadly it is for ever associated with bombs and that stigma has increased costs and stopped innovation.

Mr expert make some mini or micro hydro turbine so we use it in heron's fountain and endless energy forever for everyone possible

with big projects - lottasa money floating around - they like expense accounts they like the ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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how much power could i produce with a small waterfall that produces 70 gallons a minute and drops 17 feet to the4 ft water wheel i have made? and what kind of turbine would be best to use

use running water energy at it's maximum potential and used it for steam boiling water so we know that water going boiling at 100 degree celsius now we turned the turbine with help of water steam so we got more efficient and effective control over the stability of voltage production instead of loss of energy in electricity circuit and very much costly technology infrastructure happiness is not the costly technology infrastructure we. can use this property of water on e every planets of universe by applying automatic setting of pressure on the system 💠💠💥💢

lol i don't think he readed the comment properly, what he's actually saying is that coal is the way to go but the second guy thinks hydro is the way to. also i think the water needs to be cleaner dirty water is bad not good a few trees might help with that. it will also help with the air cause it eats the carbon so you don't have to and once you have lots of trees all that carbon can be turned into houses so you can live better. it really is win win situation plant some trees!!

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dear waseem there is not a big thing we also can run these plants in Pakistan

magnetic power is this best way

What your problem

would you like to work in Pakistan on small dams

I regret to say the wasteful (I am one of them living in a electricly heated apartment) electricity dependant society the sheer scale cannot be supplied by any combination of wind, small or large hydro or solar power. A few large or many more medium size, gigawatt or hundreds of watt, central generating stations will be required. Fortunately these do not have to burn oil, gas or coal to power the steam turbine generators that make the electricity. There is a nuclear fission based power cycle that is neither as expensive as Uranium fueled nuclear power. It is Thorium based nuclear energy. The greatest advantage of this system is it does not need a huge and expensive pressure vessel around the core. These operate the heat generating core at atmospheric pressure. The reactors can also be built in a wide array of sizes so can power smaller cities. In the meantime in places where flowing water is available I support using as much as practical the water power available. Developing the smaller sites is easier and faster than the huge projects generally sponsored by central government's. You are using cross flow turbines. They are simple to build and Install but are not very efficient. I suggest you look up a couple of Indian turbine manufacturer. When I was working redeveloping hydro sites I looked at one of these companies and was favorably impressed.

Too bad didnt show how they work

I agree coal is bad but nuclear is actually very good its killed the least amount of people than any other type.

I hate misleading crap. Those nasty big old damns and power stations.... So scaling it down is better some how? So the big one probably serves 200,000 and his serves 20 so how many of his would we need again???? 1000's of little micros all over, that wont affect the environment?? Hey I love these micro plants but all have to alter water from the river, stream or whatever. Most areas don't have white water rapids to draw from so they build a holding pond of some sort from just a few rocks to large concrete structures. There is piping that in some cases goes for 1000's of feet to build up enough head (pressure)….

He is delusional if he thinks hydro has enough energy to power jack shit. It's always going to be small beans.

i'll take coal or hydro over nuclear any day

nuclear power is the best way, end of story.