A home's garden hose can provide electricity

[wildgunz]

This could be a part of the picture along with wind and solar. Just put the turbine in your incoming water line. Every time you flush the toilet or take a shower,wash clothes,etc..your making electricity.If you lived in a large apartment complex you could be making electricity all the time. Hey why didn't I think of that...I have a school across the street from me I wonder if they would let me stick  a turbine in their water line..lol.. I'll sneak over at night..yeah that's the ticket..

[keihatsu]

Looks like I underestimated the amount of A required to run a household.  If elevated 10 feet, you need ~25 gallons/second.  That sounds incredibly high to me, but that is the number all the hydroelectric calculations arrive at.  My real point of this thread was partly to point out a different way of looking at things. 


So... is there a way to get 25 gallons/second of water to go up 10 feet without a pump or electricity?

[sparks]

  You could always work a deal with the water company.   They pump it up to you and you run your turbine generator and store the discharge water in your loft tank.  (what the heck is it with tanks on and in the roof lately)   Then they shut their motors off and you let the water stored in the tank go back through the line to spin their turbine so they can get a little of their juice back.   Of course let the water go  backwards through your turbine 1st so you get a little juice on the back feed too.

[Judges]

So far, the plan looks (do-able) good to me.
But,,,I am also thinking their might be a snag.
Sounds too simple.
Joe in Texas

[mscoffman]

@All,

Actually, I have to admit, using a Bernoulli
aspiration pump you can pump 6 gallons of
recycled water to the roof using only one
gallon of utility pressure water. The water
tank could be on or under the ground. So
that cuts water use to 1/7 of that calculated,
if you really *want* to do this. That's still
a lot of garden hoses worth though! (After
all this *is* overunity.com )

Google "pumps a lot" or "miracle mini pump"