GDS 3 KW generator runs on water

[TinselKoala]

Sure, that makes some kind of sense (except that a tank on your roof isn't going to be enough head to produce the stated power output).

But how do you explain the fact that the Pelton Wheel and attached Permanent Magnet Alternator assembly is not turning at all during the video demonstration?

And there doesn't seem to be any outlet on the bottom of the unit.

(I've made a high-resolution copy of the video, which I will excerpt, analyze and post to my YT channel when Gregory Potter finally snaps and removes his video.)

[TinselKoala]

In addition to all that tinselkoala has pointed out, one might note a couple of other things in the video:

Potter's first word is:  "Hola".

The video has available Spanish subtitles that include his 3000 Watts per hour idiocy.

Ho-ho-hola!

His accent is lousy, though. 

[MarkE]

I have no doubt water goes in the water tank and not fuel in the water tank.    He keeps using that statement on facebook, website etc "We have developed a portable water powered generator that creates a large amount of energy to run our portable generators that generate power simply by adding water"   but what does that mean? 

They claim that the device uses no fuel.  See for example the immediately following declaration:

"We have found a way to produce energy by adding clean tap water."

I get the feeling the way it was actually originally designed to work was you connect a hose, the water hits the pelton wheel,  charges the battery and then when the battery is charged you can use the power in the battery to run some small devices for a short period of time. 

I am not so generous.  But supposing that it was:  If one had a 8'/s water running through a 3/4" diameter pipe and a pressure drop of 40 psi, then there is about 190W.  For one hour of use at 5kW it would take more than a day of running that water using about 2200 cu ft.  Around here, it costs about $3. / 100 cu ft of water.   So that one hour at 5kW instead of costing $1.00 if taken from the wall outlet would cost $66. in water.

Interesting concept and probably useful for supplementing power using mains pressure water.  You place the generator on the roof of your house and connect it to your house water supply ( think there must be an exit tap underneath the generator), you also connect your garden hose to the tap on the generator.  If you had an external tank on the roof as well that held several hundred litres of water it would work even better,   You turn the hose on fill the tank while spinning the pelton wheel and charging the batteries. There looks to be all the parts necessary to do this.   The tap has an auto shut off valve he mentions the one way check valve in the video on the tap.  Now the water tank is drained and filled again if you turn a tap on in the house, The pelton wheels will once again spin as the water enters the generator and leaves the generator and enters your house, again providing power to the batteries.

I think that was the original purpose an energy scavenger using mains pressure water.     It looks like it was then modified and a 12V DC motor was added to spin the permanent magnet generator and this is where I get a little confused....Why go 12V DC  to PMG to Inverter instead of battery direct to Inverter apart from some noise and watching stuff spin.

I think that it is all for show.

[MarkE]

Ho-ho-hola!

His accent is lousy, though.

"Hola!  Como esta usted?  Me llamo es Greg Potter.  Yo soy un artisa estafador excellente!  Yo quiero su dinero mucho!"

[profitis]

@nink if it was potters strategy to throw some cheese onto alibaba and lure attention of boys with big toys then I think he may already have 9 figures sorted by now.get ready for another rossi,best regards