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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
If I had 100w of hydro power that was easy to harness I would. 100w day and night, rain or shine for one household is actually a good bit of power.
Calculating water power is actually very easy.
Take your GPM times your drop in feet, this gives you foot pounds per minute. 33,000 foot pounds per minute is 1 horse or 734 watts.
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Easy, yeah. Everything is easy once you know how. That info wasn't readily available on the internet back in the 90s. Eventually it was, and I learned how to calculate it.
With losses and average flow rates, I think 50W is what can reasonably be expected from microhydro at my parent's house.