Thanks everyone for watching, here are some additional points to compliment what was said in the video: - The hydro turbine is planned to work along side other more intermittent renewable energy, such as wind or solar, to provide base load & reliable power! - Some 'screening' would likely need to be done for debris or mammals, however this is much less intrusive, expensive, and inefficient than fish screening.

"Dams can cause negative impacts if they break". Bit of an understatement 😆

Being in S.W. Indiana local people have often wondered how come the river current has never been used. With this method would indeed be an excellent place to start. Multiple turbines at points along the river at different depths.

Hydro power has been in use in Scotland for at least 50 years now, did no one know this. 99.9% of electricity in Scotland is by renewable energy and over 60% goes to England

This has some really interesting possibilities for micro-pumped-hydro-energy storage. Also great video, well presented.

This sounds really good! Hydro is the way to go if you can and microhydro gets too little attention. I am glad to hear that the propeller is fish safe too!

Really interesting, please keep covering such topics.

These kinds of devices need to become standard for all towns and cities with free-flowing rivers running through them. It will take longer than people realise to get rid of fossil fuels but this kind of stuff is a no brainer

I heard about something like this years ago, im so glad its coming to fruition.

Maintenance, is always he maintenance that tips these project up. I remember the the wells for Africa project. They couldn't even look after a simple hand operated well pump. Some of them ended up fighting over who operated the well. Although they will be good for remote areas where there is sufficient infrastructure to repair and maintain them.

Really like your content! Thanks for all the time you take making these vids!

Awesome presentation, I’m glad I found this channel 😊

Hell they should use the tides! In my opinion the solent in the UK especially the western end would be an ideal place for hydro power because of the fast tides.

I've just come across your channel and subscribed to it, of course. Keep doing good job. With love from Poland

One factor that mitigates the initial higher KWH cost of off-grid solar is it allows local distributed production and consumption. It is easily scaled up,then forming micro grids. That cuts out the slick-dressed parasites that run the grid,whatever the initial source of energy.

Fantastic videos Very easy to follow because you are so knowledgeable Will keep watching

Perfectly explained. Thank you.

Just found the channel so happy to have found some quality content

I just found this channel and Im loving every single video

"My God, Harry, I went *through* that thing, I almost died!" "You did not 'almost die', Charlie, it's perfectly safe."

4th generation Oklahoma oil & gas business here... River hydro-turbines. Now that's an idea I can get behind.

The answer that these companies overlook is using bladeless generators inside sewage pipes. People are constantly creating waste, and yet very little (basically none) of that energy is recouped. Waste products are sometimes harvested for gases, or turned into fertilizers, but the kinetic energy created by transmission from the home to the treatment site is never collected (if at all). There's tremendous hydro-electric potential if only waste were managed better.

Wow thanks for a great vid, which the explanation of the turbine function and new blade tech.

Well done. Keep them coming. Subscribed.

I liked your micro hydro turbine concept. I also just subscribed

Great video as always! Super clear

"Ticked and subscribed, all", that video was a quality construction and extremely informative., Brilliant stuff well done :)

I am a very lucky guy. Why one may ask, my answer is this. I have found this Awesome channel, and now will try and watch every one of these very informative videos. Best regards.

A topic to consider is that demand for electricity is not flat but typically is higher during daylight hours than at night. With a dam, the reservoir acts as storage and replaces the battery. Without a reservoir, the overall cost can be optimized by finding the right combination of solar, wind and hydro to reduce demand for expensive batteries. Search term "clean energy u-curve"

Very interesting content. Your channel seems like it could become the B1M for energy engineering.

Thanks for this interesting explanation along with the interesting fish-friendly propellers Ziroth. By placing big rocks all spaced along the waters edge this will considerably slow down the bank erosion as well making it truly nature friendly.

Very well said Thank you.

Great video.. very well presented! ❤

Interesting, well presented and explained in a way that a layman such as myself can understand. I look forward to watching your other videos 👍

So much potential. We need to address the elephant in the room though. Corruption. There's a lot of it in Africa. As there's a lot of minerals in Dr Congo so lot of potential of wealth. But great idea. I hope it works out. ♥️🇨🇩

This is the kind of turbine I've been waiting for since the 1970s, from a company that seems genuinely dedicated to distributed generation and serving small-community interests. Thanks, I've come to despair humanity will only work to greater and greater centralization with its consequent unavoidable defects. Sure, we need to develop and deploy the gigawatt and terawatt fusion systems everyone is spending untold billions- for the global-scale projects we will undertake. For the small to mid-szed communities, and even down to us individually, there needs to be power solutions that AREN'T staggeringly expensive and huge-footprint burdens on the planet and society.

Please don't choose to add the loud clicking effect. It's purpose is unclear, it comes abruptly, and it's volume is distracting. Otherwise, thanks and congrats for another succint and interesting video

Gonna be a million sub channel in 2 years or less, keep it up!

Thanks for the really good informative video.

Nice technology, hopefully these Hydro Turbine is in the future for us.

the tech is here and has been for a few years now . we need to at least start the work to transform to renewables. we all need to put pressure on the ones who are in authority to get this going! And it needs to be now!!

good work covering this...something that could be used in areas of the Philippines

This sounds good for new builds of a housing estate in the water mains as they are under pressure

hopefully these can get installed in regions around the world for cheap energy from local watersheds. hopefully around middle america harnessing the rocky mountain watershed hydroelectricity

Super ! Thank you so much

Repair cycle? How do they handle servicing these in remote areas?

You deserve a lot more subscribers.

really interesting videos, nice work

Great news! Keep it up!!!

Me I think we should be putting more money into wave energy, it's never going to stop, is fish and sea life friendly and is easy to maintain. You can also put wave generators in rivers, as the water passes it agitates the machine. Turbines are high maintenance, they have so many working parts.

Well done!

Really interesting video thumbs 👍 cheer’s 😊

This seems like a winner really.

I don't see how any one could be against this idea brilliant.

It has a great efishiency 😊

Brilliant 😊

Damn you are smart. Keep making videos.

You'll still have to screen it... To keep mammals and logs out of it.

I love this turbine, is what we all wanted free energy, freedom from government, free money, and environment is happy to have it!

Thank you

The GOV in Virginia USA uses KES to pump the water back up to two small lakes, making it the most efficient hydro-electric system in existence...

This type of hydroturbine was in use since the mid-1980s. A separate downstream fish passage was in use. Hydro dam are expensive and time consuming to install. Electrical distribution is expensive. Business wants electricity during the day, consumer in the evening. River flow determines the quantity of energy available.

Hydraulic head isn't a measurement of length, it's a measurement of height as a proxy for massless potential energy or potential energy per unit mass. The formula for potential energy (abbreviated as PE) is mgh where m is the mass, g is gravity and h is height, so if you want to calculate the PE per unit mass then the formula is gh, and since g is a constant the PE per unit mass is directly proportional to the height.

Oh wow, a small dam! Who'd have thought?

Interesting, though I am skeptical if these micro plants will be cost effective. How expensive are they to install and maintain?

Yoooo this is awesome

Keep up the good work we all need more water power tidal aswell as river what ever happened too wind Mills that's on the river too grind flower in the 19th century even before that

just diverting fish to a 5% outlet downstream n keeping v efficient turbines for the fish free water is a lot more cost effective process. this filter will also keeps the blades safe from harder debris like logs wood stones etc.

Can, will, may, where is the actual shots of the turbine in action in situ? Where is the real output figures of an in situ site?

Nice video

In Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan we need this turbine so much. It can be installed on Swat river in various places

Nothing that deals with water and moving parts is going to be cheaper than basically a static plane of glass.

You’d think these would be used inline of water tower outlets that feed cities, you could put 50 inline. You could downsize it for in home use on the water in-line connection. They could connect to heating elements to heat sand batteries to heat the house and or hot water.

Well explain

love the vids😇

Keep working bro

I really like this new hydro turbine. I hope we start implementing it all over and getting rid of old river dams. {I truly believe, The more our surroundings flourish, the more we all flourish.} With how bad I've been seeing "water level/droughts" in the Western America lately. I really hope we not only reintroduce Beavers all over to influence more water collection to important area's that we can use to supply crops, deal with forest fires. Instead of running our water straight back out to the sea or blocking the rivers natural process for the ecosystem to thrive. We've really messed up natural waterways from poorly designed hydroelectric projects. Before we knew how much negative impact they have on our Ecosystem's biodiversity, water oxygen levels, algae blooms, nutrient flow from inland location's to off shore location's. In some areas like where I live in NW Oregon, rivers are a direct connection from the ocean to the inland ecosystems. Keeping the rivers free is how we keep those ecosystems flourishing which directly connects to our qualities of Life. Our natural waterways are crucial aspects of the entire overall health of every aspect of our environment and anything that connects to that environment. In Oregon, we had some of the best Salmon runs on the planet and lush inland forests, wetland ecosystems, beaver's that created special habitats that held extra water/fire safety and all that got totally flipped upside down from all the hydro dams they built in the early 1900s, and many other practices we once commonly did. Before we knew or understood the negative effects and outcomes that comes from altering them into man made waterways. So I really hope to see tons of projects that are working on rewilding areas for the sole purpose of reestablishing ecosystem's that once flourished. Because Humans inherently do better when their environment is doing better. It provides a ton of benefit to it's people and to the quality of Life as a whole for not just humans but the entire ecosystem around you which will definitely have positive impacts to so many layers to people's life's and your community as a whole. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is why we need to invest in modern advanced nuclear energy options. Small form reactors, LFTRs, Thorium Reactors, liquid reactors. Utilizing our advanced modern technology, engineering, material science, safety measures understandings and designs, computer technology, robotics, It will really allow any nation to be pretty much be energy independent. Less reliant on fossil fuels. They'll have efficient, stable electrical grids and the rest of the grid could experiment with alternative power sources, etc. We need to heal from the trauma of our past and see that it came solely from Us not understanding what we were doing, not have advanced enough technology, material science, engineering, safety measures, understanding of how to go about everything, etc. This source of energy will greatly help the world improve towards the future and lowering emissions more than anything else could while having a very stable electrical grid system. Currently we have alternative energy options but the majority of our grid is powered off of fossil fuels and emission producing sources of energy. We will be so much better going forward commiting to modern advanced nuclear energy options. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Having a decentralized hydropower source would be ideal for the smaller, more isolated communities without the environmental damage and quicker access to electric power since they wouldn't have to wait for an expensive and vulnerable power grid network to be expanded from a central source.

Perfect. 4 pieces of a perfect energy grid : - this microhydro turbine - a reservoir - store energy as water in the reservoir - grow algae in the reservoir for biofuel

Interesting! Should be tested if Salmon are safe as well

Nothing beats the Francis turbine.

Thank you. That was interesting, and thankfully you did not include any noticeable and loud and inappropriate off-putting music over voice.

This is awesome engineering.

I imagine type of fish matters a lot for the fish pass through part. In the video it looked like they were testing it with an eel. Around here it would be salmon. Is the general idea no dams? I am assuming the fish pass through is only in direction of water flow. So around here, salmon returning to spawn (going upstream) would need a way around. Doable if no dam. Still, I like the intent.

Awesome

Well that's pretty cool :)

South Africa needs these. Currently 11 out of 24 hours there is no electricity.

Only effective as long as the water flows. And reservoirs and rivers have a tendency to dry up and reduce the flow rate in hot weather....where the solar panels keep on working...

Now if only we had water in Central Australia 🤔

1:26 Hydraulic head is measured in distance because it is a measurment of the difference in height between the surface of the water at one point and some other lower point, not a measurment of pressure. Pressure is however proportional to the depth of the water, which in the case of the turbine will be its hydraulic head. I just thought saying "hydraulic head (...) represents pressure" was a little imprecise.

Given the output capacity of high head dams with high efficiency turbines in Tasmania I am sceptical that this design is capable of living up to its claims.

Put it to work ASAP...! anything helps ! Just do it ..!

Sounds great! How flood resistant is it? DRC rivers can have epic forces in some places

I would absolutely love a tiny turbine system for my rural property in Northern Alberta! We have an artesian well that runs into a little creek. Not only that Alberta currently has a program would buy back any surplus energy we'd create. I wonder what their smallest turbine would cost?

Only source of pollution for these is the mining of elements for the magnets needed in the turbines, unless we can replace those that will be a downside for basically any renewable source. Have seen a lot of these smaller turbines and several different designs in the last 10 years, great leaps are being made when people see the potential and invest.

Thanks for sharing. I would like to discuss this more. Do you have a LinkedIn page?

So, what's the cost of the whole system?

I am not a pro when it comes to HE turbines, but I showed this to a friend who was an electrical engineer in charge of all regional operations for GE. He was a german old-school pragmatic SOB. He categorically disagrees that this is possible, based on math and physics of all previously designed HE turbines. Any thoughts?

You should also mention that hydro power also comes with the drawback of habitat destruction and displacement of people upstream.

This is something I've had on my mind for some years. I live in France and am sick of seeing energy, in the form of fast flowing rivers, going to waste. Why can't we harness this energy using hydro turbines. Placed in series at strategic points along a river, could surely make a worthwhile contribution to green energy. Apparently, speaking to locals here, the Maire looked into it but found the cost of fish traps made the cost too great. Perhaps this turbine could be the answer. Really glad I fell on this, thanks.