cosmOS@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agoMy apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it?message-squaremessage-square97linkfedilinkarrow-up1412arrow-down120
arrow-up1392arrow-down1message-squareMy apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it?cosmOS@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square97linkfedilink
minus-squareCrashumbc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·2 months agoThat’s a really stupid way to do it, you connect the water turbine directly to the faucet. Why water all the tap water pressure.
minus-squareHacksaw@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 months agoYou didn’t read past the first paragraph. you can just hook the faucet up to your device, and let the water pressure drive the generator directly. In either case, for a bathtub faucet, this works out to almost 200 watts, or $25 per month
That’s a really stupid way to do it, you connect the water turbine directly to the faucet. Why water all the tap water pressure.
You didn’t read past the first paragraph.