Build a mini hydroelectric plant with two extremely powerful generators
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Don't dream of doing this in Canada.
Conservation forces will ding you on a charge called 'altering a water course'.
You pay a penalty, and pay to remove what you have built, and pay to attempt to restore what was impacted by what you did, often for more than 10 years.
And in Canada if you did dare to do this, you need to account for spring thaw and the huge volume of water and ice floes that happen at that time.
And that is no trivial hydraulic design exercise. It is what you need to do to keep everything you built from washing downstream.
Then you pay for the damage the water surge causes when your impoundment fails on top of all else. .
Conservation forces will ding you on a charge called 'altering a water course'.
You pay a penalty, and pay to remove what you have built, and pay to attempt to restore what was impacted by what you did, often for more than 10 years.
And in Canada if you did dare to do this, you need to account for spring thaw and the huge volume of water and ice floes that happen at that time.
And that is no trivial hydraulic design exercise. It is what you need to do to keep everything you built from washing downstream.
Then you pay for the damage the water surge causes when your impoundment fails on top of all else. .
Plus with only 2' of head that thing might put out 800w. Before that puny wall falls over.
Looks cute but ispoorly not engineered at all.
It's the equivilant of somebody building a model train diorama.
Looks cute but is
It's the equivilant of somebody building a model train diorama.
