Hello, let me invite you to my idea. So I bought my current house about 10 years ago. One thing that sold me is it has a creek. I'm a Electrician so obviously I see the potential for some energy out of it. Yet I've ran in to road block after road block. If I was looking to go solar there is all the info anyone could need to do that available. But for hydro seems each system is sorta tailored to its unique circumstances. I'll save you some bordem from my old ideas. I've recently had some new thoughts. I don't have much data to throw out, and that's really why I'm here. For help to figure out what potential is there. Here is my best concept. To do a under shoot wheel. The creek varys in width at the slow moving end its 15' towards the narrower part more like 8'. The narrower part the water moves more swift. So my idea is to make a funnel to create a narrow channel that could be slightly dammed up. I can only imagine that the force from narrowing the creek would have to speed the water up to turn a wheel. I have excess to a 8' tall metal skeleton of a spool that some fuel line came on at work to make a pretty substantial wheel. To do the funneling and channel. The best thing I can come up with is to use bagged concrete and simple put the bag in tact where I want them. I'd use rear to drive threw them for some scruture. But I'm not even sure what crimes I'll be breaking if I do so. I'm not even sure how to find them ,get permission ect. I live in rural Virginia on a farm. If you are up for a ongoing discussion on helping me figure out the things I havnt thought of and maybe answer some questions I'm up for all the help I can get. Thanks for taking the time here.
