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galgene

10 watts, maybe


Iirkola

Just curious, is it really that little? What should a person do to get say 1kW?


pangolin_fly

Calculating the power output of a dam is surprisingly simple, you simply multiply together; the height of the dam (m), the gravitational constant (\~10m/s\^2), the density of water (1000kg/m\^3) and the volumetric flow rate (m\^3/s). Assuming this dam is \~1m tall and allows through one cubic metre of water per second we get: 1m \* 10m/s\^2 \* 1000kg/m\^3 \* 1m\^3/s = 10kW Multiply this again by the efficiency of the system and we get the actual power output - that being said I have absolutely no clue how efficient this is, likely in the 25 - 50% range.


MatthewMoDabz

Everyone is looking into this too hard. It's a back to the future reference 1.21 gigawatts


Gannondank

Needz moer jiggawattz


enp2s0

That's the energy of the flowing water, but only a tiny fraction of that is being converted to electricity. The tiny ass motor on that paddlewheel is not going to make anywhere near 10kW. A larger motor would be more difficult to turn and thus extract far more energy from the water flow at the same RPM.


volthunter

yeah this is terrible math based on incorrect assumptions


Xyooon

What are you talking about the math is correct, the assumption could be better but he said so


Superb_Moment4987

The estimate was 2.5kw - 5kw. Not 10kw.


Left_Firefighter_762

If it's per hour, you don't need much more.... With a large battery that's going to charge during night time when you use the least electricity it could reduce the electrical bill a lot.


shackled_beef

I'm a dumb guy but assuming you mean m³ as in cubes, there's probably not even a cube there


TriXandApple

1 ton of water per second? Look at the pre damed flow rate. More like 50L/s. Efficiency isnt going to be anywhere near that, by the time you’re through flow ineffiency, blade inefficiency, bearings, generator and step up conversion. More like 15-20% if you’re really lucky, so you’re looking at around 100W best case.


Tatertot004

That dam definitely ain't moving a cubic metre of water every second


Zakumei47

where do you learn these things???


pangolin_fly

Studied aerospace engineering


Zakumei47

badass dude. thats kinda amazing


joreyesl

Bow from Reddit


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youpricklycactus

Or, make it more efficient??


Why-R-People-So-Dumb

Well the motor is physically too small to produce that much power, you need a large enough magnet and large enough conductors to produce and transport the power from the winding to the terminals. If you are pushing more current then you need bigger wire, if you are running low current high voltage, you still need physical space to isolate phases. That’s probably more than 10W btw.


Paradox0111

Underrated comment.. Even if you could produce enough pressure (which it can’t, cause physics).. That Turbines generator is to small to actually produce 1.2gigawatts over any meaningful time period. Could probably keep a phone charged though.


Why-R-People-So-Dumb

I assumed the title was a bit of whit but for perspective,since we are on the topic, a nuke plant I’ve worked with made me chuckle once when I saw one of the reactors was producing 1.21 GW.


enp2s0

The title is a back to the future reference lmao


Iirkola

[Genius](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-m&biw=414&bih=726&tbm=isch&sxsrf=ALiCzsYCQKvbA63UWrQWOK2_AuJuoOHUHg%3A1655461490665&sa=1&q=why+didn%27t+i+think+of+that+gif&oq=why+didn%27t+i+think+of+that+gif&aqs=mobile-gws-lite.0.0l5#imgrc=Z5kb1fcyYQHrfM)


galgene

Build up some pressure before the nozzles (by having an elevated resevoir), better turbine, etc.


[deleted]

Id say 500-1,500w would probably be possible ( not with the design in the vid) most important factor is water fall hight.


Iirkola

Good advice, I'll consider that


MatthewMoDabz

It's a back to the future reference 1.21 gigawatts


FlorydaMan

We all get it dude, no one is correcting that, we're just curious about the real output.


dust057

But but Back to the Future!


Manuag_86

100 of these.


Iirkola

Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science.


Manuag_86

I math a lot.


perpetualwalnut

This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0OgVuE-1iQ


Valkyrie64Ryan

Taller. The key is volume of water and height. That’s how you get more power output


SubEfficient

hypothetically a cat has enough power to power norway for a year… just saying


F-cip

1.21 gigawatts is a reference from back to the future


lefty607

Quite helpful, thanks


MatthewMoDabz

Back to the future reference 1.21 gigawatts


[deleted]

They discovered the dam


Dickau

Fr, at the rate these guys are going, they're going to outpace us and create generalized intelligence in ai and hyperlightspeed travel. Mfers forgot about mud too quick. Crazy opportunities there.


cheekybandit0

I want to see that video. One of these fast paced style, where they just build a self improving quantum computer in a field which develops sentience and evolves into a god like figure (that doesn't kill us all)


Upper-Kaleidoscope-4

Using only mud and bricks of course.


GriffinA

You saw it already. The quantum computer developed an ai that became hyper intelligent and grew to the point where it could virtualize the entire universe. It then decided to take everybody on an anonymous journey which was all virtual of course to save resources and at the end of it all the consensus was to bring everything back to exactly how it was before the God came into being. He’s still there, waiting, in the background. He just needs to be called back into action.


cheekybandit0

Hmmm....


IQtek

Dumb af


one_up_onedown

Yeah that's all good and well but they will do it in way too small.


[deleted]

If mud turns out to be the secret to faster than light travel I’ll eat my flux capacitor.


lolsup1

Damn


SnOwYO1

The dam what?


ArsyX

It's over...


[deleted]

Enough to charge a phone?


groovy604

This is cool but not the least bit bizarre


SocDemGenZGaytheist

Agreed. I kept waiting for it to power a Tesla coil, or squirt water everywhere, or *something* actually bizarre


1solate

You know a lot of people building small scale hydro-electric dams?


Brosambique

I saw [this guy](https://reddit.com/r/bizarrelife/comments/vdqe13/121_gigawatts/) do it


Sir_Hatsworth

Bizarre: markedly unusual in appearance, style, or general character and often involving incongruous or unexpected elements; outrageously or whimsically strange; odd: [Source: dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bizarre) Everything in the video is perfectly straightforward. If you're going to build a small dam on zero budget, that'd be how to do it. Now, if he were wearing a cow suit the whole time...


groovy604

Just because it's not common doesn't make it strange


bigdaddydoog

Asking as I’m purely curious - would building a dam like this have a negative effect on the local wildlife? Seen a bunch of these vids recently


AMeanCow

Maybe if there's a fish population that needs to migrate upstream, but this looks like it's already a developed water source or maybe even just an irrigation channel, there are likely already locks and channels that are disrupting wildlife if there is any.


bigdaddydoog

You rock, thank you for the response


AMeanCow

Thank you for thanking me for the response!


sunnyiamthe

Thank you both for being polite and thanking each other!


[deleted]

Agreed. Nice to see the nice side of Reddit every once and a while


[deleted]

Your username so does not check out. Thankfully.


PotBoozeNKink

I thought you were insulting him by calling him a rock for a sec


[deleted]

Would a structure like that withstand all that water pressure with no rebar reinforcement?


AMeanCow

I've made dams in creeks with rocks and and gravel, so probably. There's not that much pressure here, barely any water current and no more than a few feet deep.


leighroyv2

Better than burning coal.


LanPartyPizza

Don’t forget about all the people displaced upstream…these guys are out of control. /s


5125237143

think it wouldve been better if this was made dry n water rerouted upon completion


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theanedditor

Dress for the job you want not the one you’ve got.


ZzenGarden

But it did have a blue collar.


[deleted]

I counted 4 shirts, so just 4 days of work too.


[deleted]

Can I charge my phone with it


prince-surprised-pat

I think it could charge a phone but not much else. Its better than nothing though in a 3rd world country


bwrca

The cost of material and labour to build this though should have been enough to buy a small solar panel. That's not even considering maintenance. Something is gonna go wrong in this dam within weeks/months.


[deleted]

would a small solar panel generate more electricity?


R-A-T-S-

painting the inside red makes it go faster.


Corn_slop

Real.


[deleted]

Very very cool


[deleted]

For what looks to be a few days of work at most, it'd be a cool little project to do and you get free power for some external lights at the end too.


DukeLander

Obviously OP does not know what 1,21 GIGA watts means...


donttayzondaymebro

The only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightening!


CityOfLasVegas

Or a Nuclear Generator


Corn_slop

Or a nuke


CityOfLasVegas

Average Nuke is 16 TW or Terrawatts


BillyMeier42

High speed internet? /s. Yeah if thats 1.21 ge the energy crisis is solved.


DukeLander

Yeap, probably net speed... Btw idea is not new and this hardworking fella had missed one very valuable thing: water flow energy. Like this i.e.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiefORPamLU


misc412

is there a subreddit for stuff like this? it's really fascinating!


WutTheFuckIWokeUpOld

You might like Chris Boden on YouTube. He works at a hydro electric plant and walks you through how everything works. Not in like a dry, mind numbing technical way, he explains everything Onsite while he's actually doing various aspects of his job. https://youtube.com/user/Physicsduck Edit: So I was just checking his channel, all I know of him is his series called Authorized Personnel Only, which is everything dam related. This dude though, he's uploaded a motherclucking crap load of videos on all sorts of cool science related stuff and only has like 20,000 subscribers. This man needs some love, spread the word people!


iDam81

Obviously you don’t know what a joke is.


mikewirkijowski

Not everyone remembers Back To The Future well enough to connect the dots here. If he wrote JiggaWatts id instantly know. But i didnt get it, and its common that tiktokers/youtubers throw arbitrary numbers to impress.


iDam81

Ya know…I’ll give you those two things. 1. I’m old 2. it should have been JiggaWatts


Kronqvist

Riiiight? I was waiting for the doc to show up or something, or this thing powers the town clock, or something.


BillyMeier42

No way thats 1.21 gigawatts. That would power a small city.


TheLoneCalzone

Dumbass it is obviously 1.21 gigawatts, read the title Edit: fuck whomever awarded me, you probally got the 🤓 look


AveragePenus

Small city? Maybe a village with like 250 people


BillyMeier42

No. A small city.


AveragePenus

oh yeah true, fucked up by a factor od 1000


Mydoglovesfood

Movie reference


JackJarvisEsquire1

Or a flux capacitor


user_name_unknown

Does he just leave that there?


theusualsteve

No, this actually a cellular dam. As long as youre within range of at least one other dam, you can still make electricity. You can actually still make electricity if youre out of range of another dam, but its expensive. A scam, if you ask me


St4rScre4m

Everyone not realizing this is bizarre life for the spider. Not the man.


TheXypris

Dudes got some awesome masonry skills


chatrr

Damn!!


[deleted]

This is amazing, did you make it?


4qua_Dementia

The music bussin on God RESPECTFULLY


punkhobo

What's the song?


BlehAlklos

[Attack by KERIMKAAN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhbMIBNeLF8&ab_channel=SOURCE)


punkhobo

Thanks, it's apparently a remix of that song called the banjo beat pt1 by Ricky desktop


No_Humor5432

Deserves way more upvotes


PotBoozeNKink

I like how he built railings for it too as if mini people would be doing maintenance on it


spacestationkru

How did he block the flow to make the water level rise at the end


trucknjoe

I was thinking the same. My guess is he built a smaller, easy to deconstruct dam a bit upstream


Not_A_Paid_Account

u/trucknjoe He didn’t do anything more :). Look at where water can escape. Either through the two high up flow vents (the rectangles at 1:20) or through the turbine, first going in through the circular pipes. So it has to rise to the level of the pipes, and as the pipe has only so much capacity and such, he also made the flow vents so it wouldn’t turn into a lake if a big storm were to happen. So the water rises simply because the river is blocked off until it gets high enough to go thru the turbine pipe, which is quite high.


spacestationkru

Yeah but the water level was the same while he built everything, then as one point he blocked it somewhere so it could rise up to the top. Is there another drain somewhere else that kept the water level down while he set everything up?


Not_A_Paid_Account

Looks like he’s just a fast builder :). It’s just a slow river with a LOT of area it can back up to, you can see it rise a bit while building.


stagnant_fuck

well dam…


[deleted]

backto hte futer


kaceypeepers

I'll call a doctor


IllustriousAdagio822

r/ihadastroke


Bitesizecrypto35

Hook it to a transformer and an alternator and maybe solar then you can charge an iPhone in 48 hrs


[deleted]

I rather flip a switch


AntonioMRC

So he invented a water power "plant" or what's the deal? Common knowledge and he gets on rainy seasons maybe like 100w out of that


soopahfingerzz

This guy will survive the fall of western civilization. Me on the other hand, will try to make it as a bard or court jester with my music degree


LazoHollyfeld

What the hell is a gigawatt?


Dry-Location9176

Highly illegal in probably every state here to mess with a natural waterway even if it's on your property. Chinese people have more freedom than you in some respects.


[deleted]

Damm


richybruhhhh

Yamuna has left the chat


bruhhhhhhhs

Anybody else wondering about rad burns from the welding?


ChilliDogTime

Honey! I cN now start my hairdrye-h.... Aw....


Hordesoldier

Any explanation for the red paint ? Why was it needed.


trucknjoe

Makes it look better so you take more pride in your work. That was my guess as he was doing it anyways.


Hordesoldier

good answer.


trucknjoe

Thank you


Carburetors_are_evil

Free range, organic electricity


Ramoulow

u/savevideo


ukrlk

I've heard of small scale hydro projects, but this is not what I had in mind.


JanwithBanan

Dam...


BioZgamerYT

u/savevideo


PokeyTifu99

Just another piece of junk to be left littering the environment. Like the other 99.99% of these "awesome bizarre wacky outdoor creation" channels. They always just leave the trash to rot.


Omegalyger

That’s pretty impressive


dUmMyThIcK-YoDa69

Make sure this guy is protected during the apocalypse


Pimpnamedslickback94

For a sec I thought that was Jackie Chan


Comfortable_Force864

Got Dam


Waffles128

u/auddbot


NoFreedance1094

How much time would it take to offset the cost?


418-369

Anyone know why he made it with that angle? Why do the extra work stringing up the brick like that?


0mw2fyA

damn


DifferentHighway2767

How does he move so fast?


Big_Ad_5533

Honestly if that had a charging point I would charge my phone


shiafisher

Dam that’s awesome


Rubicon_water

Amazing!


Eddy_Hanma

He play a lot of minecraft


Interesting_Fig_7160

Back to the Future


aTRain619

What’s this for


Mephistophol

Is that…. Is that a lot?


Imbalancedone

Dam that’s interesting.


MatthewMoDabz

It's a back to the future reference 1.21 gigawatts


vexunumgods

Uranium based red paint


rorschachmah

Lmao


Beneficial-Regular66

What the hell is a gigawatt? -asking for a friend, Marty McFly


dontryagain

That beat goes hard


[deleted]

I just want to say, damn man.


GoodCitizenn

Mini Hoover dam


ballmtn

Perfect for a speedboat time machine


trinisultan

Now i can charge my iPhone 📲 yay 😀


Ok-Following316

That is one Dam talented Asian , literally!


Successful-You1961

I “thought” I was a Southern Engineer-til I saw this ☺️


Smooth-Disk-3656

u/savevideo


cag8f

Cool. The spinning element needs to be inside a magnetic field right? So how did he create that magnetic field? Is he using only the Earth's magnetic field?


CTRL1_ALT2_DEL3

What a fun little project.


HuTyphoon

Not much compared to ruining an ecosystem for fake internet points.


richer2003

It’s impressive workmanship for sure!


dmurray22

Beautiful workmanship regardless


dmurray22

Beautiful workmanship regardless


ParaMaxTV

But the water is already flowing??


cosmico_bonico

u/savevideo


[deleted]

r/savevideo


Kingomni123

Hard worker when you wear your work clothes outside


Glizzyboiz

Bro got that goofy music playing


Bulbous-Walrus

Ha ha ha ha Stayin alive Stayin alive


extremerick11

Song anyone know?


Jasuel_Art

Gigawatts sound familiar.. what are gigawatts


xgeneric-usernamex

Whats the song brother?


blakesphere

dams for ants?


NoBdy_WzarD

I wish I was good at shit


kuhkowabbu

u/redditMP4bot


Desperate_Setting_57

that music hits different


Dreamcatched

Great way to fuck up the environment...