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Hydroelectricity
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The following are links to various hydorelectric suppliers. Click your back button after visiting these links to return back here.
People with streams flowing through or near their property sometimes wonder if they can use a hydro-electric system to power their home and/or to sell electricity to a utility. Many factors determine the feasibility of hydroelectric systems.
The Harris system is an efficient, durable battery charging pelton turbine. It is especially well suited to produce usable household power from springs and creeks that are too small to sustain the same level of useful power from a conventional A.C. generating system. Because D.C. power can be stored, the system is collecting power 24 hours a day, a little at a time, to be used as needed.
Systems from 20 watts to 500 KW.
Many land owners look wishfully at the creek that flows through their property. They dream of tapping the power of the water, but they are not blessed with a waterfall or with any way to develop a head of ten to twenty feet. (The head is the vertical drop of the water.) All they have is a high volume creek flowing through relatively flat land. I designed this system to illustrate the feasibility of using an ultra low head hydroelectric system to provide "usable amounts" of electric power. This system is designed to be located in the creek bed using a small dam to provide a minimum head. The prototype micro-hydroelectric system operates on a head of about 2.75 feet!
