Home Made Renewable Energy Systems

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A community to discuss making renewable energy systems at home.

Want to turn a PC fan into a generator for your vertical axis wind turbine? Got an old washing machine that might be good with a pelton wheel on it?

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A Homemade Hydroelectric Plant Powers a Homestead – Mother Earth News (www.motherearthnews.com)

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[–] Bluetreefrog 2 points 1 year ago

Everything we do has an impact on the environment. The questions are whether it is less damaging than the alternative, and how sensitively it is implemented. If you run a micro-hydro system on a creek and are using a small percentage of the flow in that creek it is arguably much less damaging than buying electricity from the grid with all of the impacts associated with that (cleared land for transmission, mining for copper wires, potentially coal etc, etc)