Rain Gutter POWER #1 - How to Harvest Free Energy From Your Roof with a Hydro Electric Generator!

A lot of people wonder if there's any power in the rain falling on our roofs. This video series starts with the theory of how much power is available then attempts to achieve it in practice. It was a lot of fun to BUILD, hopefully you enjoy it and learn something in the process.

For those in the comments that insist I didn't compensate for the angle of the roof in the rainfall calculation, did I not say "once I calculate the horizontal distance..."?

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Harvesting hydro power from rain gutters! It sounds impossible but it works. This is part 1 of a video series on the theory and implementation of capturing hydro-electric power from the roof. For part 2 click here:

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[truestOG]

the world would have more physicists, engineers and mathematicians if guys like these taught in public schools

[davidhoffert]

Just found this video and subscribed. As a HS science teacher I assigned this as mandatory viewing during the pandemic. This is SUCH A FANTASTIC job of demonstrating, explaining, testing ect... Seriously, one of the best engineering videos I have seen.

[humbugswangkerton]

I'm about to get my engineering degree, and I must say he does an excellent job of presenting the proper mindset: analyzing the problem, check the math, and then weigh out if it is worth it. This should be shown to all high school students.

[slavsterbater]

I absolutely love the format of this video. You go through each step of the process: the idea, the problem, the potential solution, the reasoning, the design and paper calculations, the actual building process.
This is excellent teaching material and a real life experience of a very complete engineering process.

[Tomizzz]

Can we all just stop for a minute and appreciate that transition at 3:45

[APlatypus]

"It's way easier in metrics" that sentence from an american is gold

[Teuchter-ahoy]

I live in the Scottish highlands and in a log cabin with the same kind of roof. I’m 45, a mum of 3 grown children and I used to be a nurse until my back noped and decided it was gonna screw me out of a career. I was ok at chemistry in school but I never considered physics or maths because the teachers were just so apathetic and close to retirement and had no patience for helping us who weren’t especially great at calculations. Had this guy been a teacher at my school, I’d be in a different world! I enjoyed this video very much and I understood everything - I also enjoyed the fact he has a passion for sharing his knowledge. That was like being a student nurse and having a placement where the doctors and surgeons love to show you what they’re doing and make sure you understand.

[guyb]

14:15 your reaction when it jumped over three brightened my day

[p.s]

You can tell this guys has an engineering background the moment he takes out the graph paper and formulas instead of eyeballing it

[speed]

4:03 "This is way easier in metric"

Rest of the planet : Yup!

[farhankay]

Heard him pronounce 'roof' weird... Immediately jumped to the comments. Was not disappointed. I love the interwebs 💁🏻

[MrMic-kpww]

This exact idea spinned in my head for many years. I never had the chance to try it though. Thank you for trying! 10 thumbs up! Good that there are people like you!

[aarontena]

I feel like I'm back to school, but more interesting

[LaPhysiqueaveclesMains]

This video reaches the perfect balance between funny and informative. Great job ! I may recommend it to my Freshmen Engineering students: it makes for a great exploration of energetic orders of magnitude (and why hydro-electric power requires such gigantic infrastructures !). Thank you for this excellent job !

[BigBrainBrian]

I was ready to bash this as a dumb idea but really like how he applied engineering methods and achieved a measurable result!

[moonlight_scribe]

Great content for science classrooms. Love that you include design drawings because a lot of people think you just try things until something works but design first build second is so important.

[nic]

An "American " that just said metric is way easier than imperial. Lmfao. (Australia here) i love it! Not to denote from the fact very cool vid brother. Been considering trying a rather different but similar thing myself. Cheers to you sir.

[donanders]

Your son is ahead of the pack already, having a father like you!

[patrickeckert]

Who is this man and why is this the first time he’s come up on my recommended

[KO_IslandGirl]

Sorry, I'm late for class…… by a good 4years 😂. WOW 😮you have to be the smartest YTber I have ever seen. Love your channel and just binged watch 5 episodes. Interesting stuff.