$50 Water Turbine-5 kilowatt hrs/day - Open Source, DIY

This turbine can be built for about half the cost of a 120 watt solar panel ($50), and will produce about ten times more power per day (5 kWh). It can be plugged into any appropriate waterway without the need for earthworks, and uses only standard off the shelf and recycled materials, and basic hand tools.
The turbine is now working and producing power. Full details in the video.

This is free power in terms of economically free, not thermodynamically free. As in, once the turbine is set up you won't be paying anything per kilowatt hour it produces. You do still need to have the power in the water, in form of gravitational potential, to extract.
The turbine cannot and will not take any more power from the system than is already in it, this isn't an over unity / free energy type thing.

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This technology was produced in partnership with CADUS, a charitable and independent aid organisation who initiate innovative and sustainable projects focusing on need-based capacity building to help people help themselves.

Once the design is optimized I'll produce a full open source construction tutorial on

My name is Daniel Connell. I prototype and develop basic technologies which anyone can make using recycled materials and simple tools.
The aim is for everyone everywhere to be able to build and maintain their own infrastructure; producing their own energy, food, clean water, communications, and anything else they need.

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[joelrampersad]

Definitely got the mad scientist vibe. The world needs more like this. Kids should be taught who the real heroes are...not footballers or singers.

[TheDirtBiter]

I cannot see any reason for anybody to down vote this video. He is producing a low cost, low tech means of generating electricity using water power that will give communities that have no electricity the chance to have it. All fine and well sitting in your nice modern home with all your gadgets powered from the electricity network while other people actually struggle for the basics in life. Gets my thumbs up for the creativeness and the simplicity of it.

[spherecoffeeco]

This is the kind of content that we all should be looking at not the get rich quick that is everywhere, I admire you so much God bless you man

[josbarely]

I am amazed at the simple yet profound "Third World" ingenuity of this man! Usually you have "I have created this special, one-off part made from unobtanium with my 5 dimensional printer." Not so here. The parts he uses, possibly with the exception of the hoverboard wheel, is readily available from almost any hardware store, and probably a lot of junkyards. This truly is an "everyman" project! Keep up the awesome work!

[Bitcoin_Bernoulli]

Well, I’ve found my new favorite channel. You’re doing exactly what I’ve been imagining for some time. Thank you for the amazing open source data.

[bravoadventure]

Looking forward to the construction tutorial! Not only can this be a way for many people to get electricity reliably, perhaps for the first time, it could also be a way to untie people from centralized power grids.

[wmhazim]

whoever mastered this, soon people will be needing you. your colony will appreciate you.

[rakeshmallick]

Man that turbine recovered its cost in less than 150 days

[ayeshamerrydeath]

4:18 "Usually im knee deep up a river with things exploding all around me and I'm just trying to hold it together"

lol you just described my life

[hardstylelife]

Simply brilliant!!! That’s what can really be called a great piece of knowledge, thanks a lot for sharing it!

[dodeblakley]

I absolutely love this setup. I love the low precision approach while maintaining decent efficiency. The 2 things I thought of from the last video to improve your efficiency you have addressed with the increased diameter of the output pipe into the water below to give better suction. Great work. I look forward to seeing your long term setup.

[jimmydocndog]

This man gives a most honest (no hype, no bullshit) descriptive explanation of his device - Showing the parts, their function and the resulting output...
all in under 23 min - (257 dislikes on 06/06/2021) - I guess they haven't got a very long attention span -- Ffs !

[pamwalker]

I’ve been looking for someone who sees the potential of gravity based systems. Thank god I found you as you are doing everything I can only dream of. Made my day 👍✌️🌱 you have already made my mechanical side active with your approach to physical barriers. I want to make this planet cleaner and create an environment where animals and humans can co exist without poisoning future generations. You are making that happen so I do appreciate your input and will keep watching as always. Stay safe

[jonathanpurves]

Dude, my hat of to you for sharing what you have designed, people complain about needing more power but if we looked after our own power we make we won't waste it, you sir deserve a bottle of bells. Thank you.

[fatsolutions]

This is absolutely brilliant, we need more people thinking like this! So much waste and suffering where this type of thinking is fixing both!

[wjgoh]

I would change the computer vane axial style fan to a backward or forward incline assembly to eliminate the cavitation issue. if you wanted to keep with robbing the parts from other sources, several bath fan units come to mind. Electric furnace fans are another source, which would increase the size of the housing, but would also allow for a much larger generator source. An old 3 phase pump motor could be used for instance. The power generation (with a regulator) would likely power a small township.

[manuelmartin]

Thanks for sharing this work, I enjoyed watching it. As mentioned in previous comments, the siphon configuration does not help avoid cavitation. Moreover at the place where the turbine is, the pressure is surely lower than the atmospheric pressure, and you might have air coming in since the sealing and joints are not perfect. And let's not forget that is a fan and its design is not optimised to have low NPSH performances. I believe that all these issues will be solved when you will have the classical installation with the the turbine placed closer to the outlet, as you said when it will be installed in a river or whatever. But in the meantime, you have to consider that cavitation has a great effect on the power absorbed by the turbine. If you solve the cavitation problems, your power will be greater.

About the hydraulics, I believe that the turbine could absorbed more pressure and generate more power. Be careful in axial propellers as this one, more flow might not mean more power. Here I think the turbine is working very far from its BEP and the power could be greater than what you currently have (i do not know if since that you have more improvements). It would be good to have pressure measures before and after the turbine to better understand if you could improve a bit from the hydraulic point of view. Another thing is the tip between the fan (120mm) and the pipe (125mm), it s large and you might be losing some watts there. Anyway I hope those comments could help.

Can't wait to see the following testing and improvement of the turbine. Ah congratulations for the interesting and clever solutions for making bush bearings, couplings, etc. for almost no money. Brilliant ideas.

[Built_IRL]

Mate this is brilliant! The bottle rheostat is especially clever.
I understand engineering design naturally goes where the money is, but the need is truly so much greater in the other 80% of the world. Keep it up!

[gedofgont]

Low tech: high intelligence!
This is just brilliant.
👏👏👏👏👏

[justaddsleep]

I love how brilliant this is. You can use these in series from waterway to reservoir "lower" then from reservoir back to waterway "lower". Time to rethink spillways and hydro electric systems to utilize more scalable systems.