Interesting Approach to Hydrokinetics
A reader asked for my comment on this technology: turbines installed inside of municipal water pipes that converts some of that hydrokinetic energy into electricity.
First, let’s start with the most obvious: this doesn’t apply to water that is flowing because it was pushed along by a pump. This device slows down the velocity of the water, and would therefore cause the pump to work harder to compensate for it. So we need to confine ourselves to gravity-fed pipes. (more…)
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