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Glad you like the content. Other viewers also complained about the music, so years ago I released non-music versions of many of the videos. This is a playlist of those versions: ruclips.net/p/PLtTypVpmDd-vs1KhnputU1l7EeNcVmEBH&si=w0oYc0yYX1OKb4-q I hope this is helpful. Thanks for watching

Most people nowadays have an attention span of a goldfish ... you're an exemption 😅

I agree that it doesn't make sense to install solar in a region where the yield is not worth the investment. However I do take issue with being called an idiot for viewing what is occurring as climate change. My own property has seen a direct impact losing 30-40% of conifer trees due to beetle infestations resulting from consistently warmer winters. The beetles prosper due to not being killed off by sub zero temps. The SW United States is in the throws of a decades long "drought", so it is not just a few years. I see climate change as real due to my own perceptions and having studied the topic to base my understanding on science. Climate deniers can dream on.

Thank you! Cheers!

@@MrTolcher Quite the compliment, Thank you 🙏🏼. You might enjoy the synopsis playlist of the system I own on my property ruclips.net/p/PLtTypVpmDd-vkT9bJQkXw4I1t0e_4jMYA

@@mrhydrohead Thank you, they were also a joy to watch. you have an incredibly peaceful place to call home.

Sorry for the slow reply. Because I don’t own and haven’t visited this system since making the video, I don’t have an accurate answer for you. My understanding was that the owners intended to install a silo type structure to house the turbine. I doubt they left it out in the elements where the noise would be highly unpleasant and the equipment would degrade over time. If I get an update I will post another response to you.

I don't own this system, so I don't know how much the total system cost. Even if I did provide cost figures, it would not be of much benefit as each system is unique to the chosen site and costs can vary widely depending on numerous factors. First there is the potential power available at the particular site which dictates if the desired use of that power is practical. Who will design the system? What will be the best equipment and materials available to meet the unique requirements of the most beneficial and practical design? Then there are expenses involved in acquiring water rights which are likely different in each state or country depending on a pro se (self applied) application or hiring lawyer to work on them. Who will do the labor to install the system? Is it your own sweat equity, friends that can help, or hired labor and at what rate? How much time will it take to install? What materials can be accessed? Reused or new pipe, copper or aluminum wire? How long a length of wire? What building(s) will house the equipment? What transformers, batteries, load regulators, power shunts, or utility net metering are available and/or appropriate to the particular site? All of theses factors can add to the costs and it would be naive of me to present a one size fits all price. One must be clear that installing a system is creating an asset which would likely provide power for a lifetime. Can it be financed over time and does that cost make economic sense when compared to running utility lines to an off grid property? Will a local utility be willing to purchase excess power and at what rate? Undertaking a project of this size is not for the faint of heart. It IS a large commitment both financially and in effort and time. My first system (1.5kw) which I own and documented on this channel cost ~$25k and was installed in the mid 90’s. Redesigning and moving the same equipment to a more reliable water source was also documented on my channel and took place between 2013-2015 and added another ~$55k but boosted the useable power by a factor of 5 to 7.5kw. WHEN a project occurs is also a factor governing cost. Inflation impacts everything involved and the fact that I intend these videos to remain on the internet for years to come and provide some clear eyed guidance to people that are serious about their own intentions, this dictates that I not mislead them with cost estimates willynilly. Sorry to go on and on here. I know the system in this video was funded with the aid of grants. Thanks for watching and for your comment.

That is true, but this system effectively uses the grid as its battery by spinning their meter backwards and thereby lowering the utility bill. This is not uncommon with solar systems as well. It also avoids the maintenance and replacement headaches of batteries. Thanks for watching.

www.solarenergy.org/contact/ is the link to get in touch with the school. They have numerous classes available for many renewable technologies. Look over their website and see what they have to offer. There is a 5 day micro hydro course at their facility and also a free online introductory course which gives an overview of many of the renewable technologies. I hope this is helpful to you. Thanks for watching. 👍🏼

Its an interesting thought experiment. A formula for determining the power potential of micro hydropower would be (Net head x Net flow in GPM) / 15 for DC watts or / 9 for AC watts. You could calculate the potential power that way, but with maybe 60 psi (2.31 * 60 = 138 head) from the utility and maybe 1-3 GPM on an intermittent basis, you would find a very limited amount of power. (138 * 3) / 15 = 27-28 watts. That wouldn't justify the cost of buying equipment, batteries and inverter. There is also the question of once the pressure is utilized to harness kinetic power from the flow, what is left to push the water through the pipes to your shower, toilet or sink? Thanks for watching and asking the question.

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No way. I don’t own this system I merely documented and I do believe it ran in excess of $100k. But nowhere near $1M. The lion share of expense was labor, equipment rental, and travel expenses.

As a former private pilot I agree with you. Congrats on having a functioning system. Nice, isn’t it!? Over the 27 years my equipment has been running, we’ve generated over 518,000 kWh and it still just keeps spinning. 375 megawatts of that have come since moving the system to our creek and turn it on in 2015. This video you commented on isn’t mine, I only documented this one. My system is summarized here: ruclips.net/p/PLtTypVpmDd-vkT9bJQkXw4I1t0e_4jMYA&si=sTuj5ibEKTzJm73Q RUclips only seems to promote the most recent videos, so I guess l need to do an update to point people to the older videos. Thanks for watching.

@@mrhydrohead I will check it out. Yes, hydro is great, nothing beats gravity! PV is a bit more hassle free but not near as satisfying for some reason. I have both, and never pay a bill other than my connection fee;. My mountain stream varies so much I designed it around the lower part of the year/flow, so it's small but consistent as in keeping the supply line full.

No. I live at least a 5 hour drive from there and don’t own this system. So, I don’t have any plans to do a follow up. Sorry, but thanks for watching anyway.

Good Question! The purpose of the Z pipe is to enable the position of the turbine above the height of the creek running beside it. This is to protect from the high water levels in Springtime melt off conditions from damaging the turbine. The available pressure level for the water in the system is measured to the height of the water in the draft tube below the turbine. See part 2 for detail about this @2:28-2:37 ruclips.net/video/8oE7hULefA4/видео.html. So, there is very little loss if any with the use of the Z Tube. Thanks for watching!

Florida would present an interesting challenge as there may be a lack of substantial head given the flat nature of the state. A viable system would therefor require a large amount of flow to enable a good system. A combination of either high head with lower flow or low head with very high flow are the measures which determine the potential amount of power to be extracted. These may be a couple of good sources to investigate for low head applications. emrgy.com & www.turbulent.be Thanks for watching!

How?

Not sure what you have in mind, but email me MrHydrohead@gmail.com

I did research using some of my excess power for this, but I decided that to try to compete with large server farms would not be a practical undertaking. It would require always upgrading to newer cards and ongoing costs without a guarantee of success.

​​​@@mrhydroheadi wouldnt go too deep in it but being a part of a pool will increase your chances of payout. If your mining pool hits the block reward you will get paid accordingly. Maybe youre only .5 percent but because of a mining pool you get more community hash rate. And i strooongly believe in btc. More than everything else, basically. Id rather plug in a 10,000 miner than give the grid back electricity for example. Bitcoin will almost certainly hit 1million per. So if you could mine it for the cost of a miner and hold in a personal wallet it should in theory be a great way to A + B combo this amazing hydro power tech. Please keep up the good work man i just found your channel and you do a great job!! <3 This project is a ways off but lifegoals.

In the US, I believe every state has different rules governing water rights. In Colorado where I live, water rights are adjudicated by state water courts. You file for a non consumptive right for use and are initially granted a "conditional" right which must be proven as beneficial use within 7 years. If you put in a system and prove beneficial use you then file to make the water right "absolute". If you don't prove in that time period, you can refile to get another 7 years. It is considered non consumptive or run-of-river in that it puts the water back in the waterway it came from. Sorry that I don't have info on how it works in different states or different countries. Thanks for watching

@@mrhydrohead thank you!!! Very intetesting!!

I don’t own this system and merely documented it. Personally I know next to nothing about competing battery chemistries. I chose to go straight AC with a load controller on MY system on the majority of this channel. I didn’t want to maintain or replace batteries. Straight AC works great if you have enough wattage and can pay attention to the load you’re placing on the system. Thanks for watching and commenting.

Yeah my SAAB has one shaped like that. Thanks for watching

The turbine was manufactured by Canyon Industries www.canyonhydro.com and was a model 1051 with bronze pelton cups, single needle nozzle, with jet deflector. It cost $6700. The Generator was a Lima brushless SER 250S1230 10kW which was $2100. Those prices were in 1996, so a comparable unit would be much higher these days, but they are still running great so it pays to buy quality equipment. Lima was bought out by Marathon www.marathongenerators.com many years ago. In addition I had attended a class at Solar Energy Intl www.solarenergy.org in 1996 and the instructors had good connections and may have enabled me to get good pricing. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!

I don’t own this particular system and only documented it. With the costs you list I do expect it went over $100k. But it is beyond the reach of the grid, so it probably would have cost a fortune to bring power in. The system I own shown in the majority of videos on my channel made great sense in ‘96 being 7 miles from the grid. It continues to provide abundant reliable power now up to 511+ megawatts since installation and a joy to live with. Independence factor does rule! Thanks for watching

Isn’t hydro great!? Lucky you. Our system (elsewhere on this channel) runs 7.2kW in winter and 4.5kW every other season. Now in operation since 1996. I considered a HydroScreen from Bob but took a different approach. This system’s dam is very altering of the stream, but I guess Utah was OK with it. Congrats on being a HydroHead! It’s a great way to live if you can access the resource. Thanks for watching and sharing.

I was fortunate to plant roughly 100k trees as a tree planter in the northwest when I first got out of college. A great time and I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for watching

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That is indeed very sad. There is a Belgian (www.turbulent.be) company that has created a Turbulent turbine which is supposed to be harmless to fish. They can even coat the turbine blades with softer material to prevent harm to fish and they divert a small portion of flow for low head power generation. I've been curious to find one of these systems to document. I wonder if they've found an exception or worked to create one for the European laws. Our system (ruclips.net/p/PLtTypVpmDd-vkT9bJQkXw4I1t0e_4jMYA) never allows fish into the system and only diverts a small portion of water in the creek for a run-of-river configuration. Protecting natural habitats is vital. Thanks for watching and your comment.

I don't own this system, so I don't know how much the total system cost. Even if I did provide cost figures, it would not be of much benefit as each system is unique to the chosen site and costs can vary widely depending on numerous factors. First there is the potential power available at the particular site which dictates if the desired use of that power is practical. Who will design the system? What will be the best equipment and materials available to meet the unique requirements of the most beneficial and practical design? Then there are expenses involved in acquiring water rights which are likely different in each state or country depending on a pro se (self applied) application or hiring lawyer to work on them. Who will do the labor to install the system? Is it your own sweat equity, friends that can help, or hired labor and at what rate? How much time will it take to install? What materials can be accessed? Reused or new pipe, copper or aluminum wire? How long a length of wire? What building(s) will house the equipment? What transformers, batteries, load regulators, power shunts, or utility net metering are available and/or appropriate to the particular site? All of theses factors can add to the costs and it would be naive of me to present a one size fits all price. One must be clear that installing a system is creating an asset which would likely provide power for a lifetime. Can it be financed over time and does that cost make economic sense when compared to running utility lines to an off grid property? Will a local utility be willing to purchase excess power and at what rate? Undertaking a project of this size is not for the faint of heart. It IS a large commitment both financially and in effort and time. My first system (1.5kw) which I own and documented on this channel cost ~$25k and was installed in the mid 90’s. Redesigning and moving the same equipment to a more reliable water source was also documented on my channel and took place between 2013-2015 and added another ~$55k but boosted the useable power by a factor of 5 to 7.5kw. WHEN a project occurs occurs is also a factor governing cost. Inflation impacts everything involved and the fact that I intend these videos to remain on the internet for years to come and provide some clear eyed guidance to people that are serious about their own intentions, this dictates that I not mislead them with cost estimates willynilly. Sorry to go on and on here. I know the system in this video with installation costs were in excess of $100K. Information on the specific Francis Turbine can be located off the placard on the side of unit at 4:25 in the video. You can contact them for current pricing. Thanks for watching and for your comment.

@@mrhydrohead thanks a lot for the detailed reply ...I appreciate your time and effort ... Keep up good work ...

Sorry you had difficulty with the video audio. Others in the past made similar comments, so I uploaded versions of many of the videos without music. They can be found here in this playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLtTypVpmDd-vs1KhnputU1l7EeNcVmEBH Hopefully this helps you. Thanks for watching and your comment

This segment is where I cover the electrics: Part 14 MicroHydro Power System in CO ruclips.net/video/1c8AYt6C2P4/видео.html. The system utilizes an electronic load controller ELC which is made by Thomsen & Howe www.smallhydropower.com/ in Canada. It basically shunts load off to resistive loads by varying the load with SCR circuits. It monitors the hz on the system and varies load accordingly. If you have additional questions I’ll be glad to help. Thanks for watching.

@@mrhydrohead amazing, thanks for the reply. I'll give that a watch and see if I've got follow up queries. Awesome system, BTW very jealous! I've seen battery based systems where bridge rectify to dc and mppt/buck convert to battery but never seen residential direct from turbine to house.

Yeah the system is such a joy to live with. The majority of the channel is about moving my system to a creek source. There are two other systems shown on the channel which I don’t own as well. My email is mrhydrohead@gmail if you have more questions. 😊