Can I make Eletricity from tap water ?

Question

I do not pay for my tap water, can i fit some sort of generator to make cheap power for me.
I do have good tap pressure

Answer 1

Lol, probably if you hooked it up to a turbine or something (though I doubt you could power all that much from it!).

Of course, the water board would come round and have a word with you if you were using water constantly...

As Answers has a 'no chatting' policy I can't actually ask you questions, so I'll assume that you are living at your parents or something hence the free water. Or maybe you are on a fixed bill.

For the former your parents will kill you, for the later the water board will kill you.

Answer 2

It would be possible to fit a turbine to your water line, but it would most likely be impractical. To get sufficient electricity for a large application (like your household) would probably require a very large generator (as large as some of the ones that run on diesel fuel or gasoline sold at the home help centers (Home Depot, for example), and they have fairly big engines. Now, if you could use solar power to dissociate hydrogen and oxygen from the water, you could then use that in a Hydrogen-Oxygen fuel cell (but you would be putting more solar-derived electricity into the process than you would get out). These are not commercially available, as far as I know. Also, if you used tap water that SOMEONE pays for (I'm assuming it isn't well water) to turn a large enough turbine I'm thinking they would soon get wise to the water usage and make you start to pay for it.

Answer 3

Of course you can and this was commonly done about a century ago when hobbyists only needed a small amount of power intermittantly. But somebody is paying to supply that water unless you have a pipe to an uphill lake, so you're not going to generate an appreciable amount of power before someone notices and comes to turn your water off.

Answer 4

Perhaps. You can try to creat some hydroelectricity. But the amount is VERY VERY LITTLE.

Use ur tap water to turn some DIY turbine, and fit a generator to it. Good luck.

Hope this helps=)

Answer 5

specific, you're able to make a photovoltaic cellular, or image voltaic cellular, with the help of having 2 diverse densities of faucet water separated with the help of plastic action picture. upload salt to between the layers to alter the density. Shine sunlight by it and then assemble the electrical powered fee in a battery. then you definately will want a converter to alternating modern so which you will run your workstation. or you will possibly nicely be wasteful and run the water on your kitchen sink and turn a water wheel turbine and generate a cost that way.

Answer 6

You could set up a mini hydro-electric generator linked to a capacitor to store the generated electricity. You could also link it up to windmills on the roof and utilise all that free wind power.

Failing that you could pull up a few floorboards, crawl through the cavity to next door and tap their supply.

Answer 7

yes
water weel
or any gravity feed divice
can make hydrogen cells and turn that back into electricity( I did it but ineficient)
heating the water and using that to turn a generator will also

Answer 8

huge amounts of water wasted to make very little power; yes

Answer 9

will you tell me why or how you do not pay for your water supply it would be very interesting

Answer 10

HAHAHHAHAHA, u can make electricity from ur self as well if u show this picture in ur profile :)