Using Rain Gutters To Generate Power

Assume that when it is raining water is collected in the gutter that surrounds a building s roof.

Using rain gutters to generate power.

To generate enough hydropower to charge anything you d need a lot of downward pressure says bob bass a power engineer at portland state university. Putting a 35 50 gallon rain barrel on a stand about 6 8 above the ground once filled will allow a constant pressure for a given duration to spin your turbine. Our device uses water pressure from gutter downspouts to generate electricity during heavy rainfall and storms where solar panels will not be as effective. Alternative energy by tim mcgee is chief biologist and designer at likolab a biology and design firm in seattle that learns from nature and then makes things.

The device purifies the water while generating a few. Soffits and gutters can be some of the most difficult areas of your home to keep clean. Now instead of funnelling that rainwater out to the street or into a creek. Now consider turning the rainwater that runs into that gutter into electricity.

The power of rain. Or some other body of water consider funnelling that water into a tank that has a changeable filter. With that you can get a constant voltage from your turbine for that given duration even if the rain storm has light rain periods mixed with heavy rain. Little turbine filters rainwater and makes electricity rainwater collected from roofs in mexico city can be used to drive a microturbine.

In a rain gutter you don t have. In a nutshell the pluvia system developed by omar enrique leyva coca romel brown and gustavo rivero velázquez uses the stream of rainwater runoff from houses rooftop rain gutters to spin a. This video series starts with the theory of how much power is available then at. We have been inspired to create a device that will create electricity cleanly and support areas in which other alternative sources may not be as applicable.

Imagine the average house or apartment which is most always equipped with a rain gutter for water runoff.