Rain Gutter POWER #1 - How to Harvest Free Energy From Your Roof with a Hydro Electric Generator!
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- čas přidán 28. 04. 2024
- A lot of people wonder if there's any power in the rain falling on our roofs. This video series starts with the theory of how much power is available then attempts to achieve it in practice. It was a lot of fun to BUILD, hopefully you enjoy it and learn something in the process.
For those in the comments that insist I didn't compensate for the angle of the roof in the rainfall calculation, did I not say "once I calculate the horizontal distance..."?
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Thanks for watching...
-Quint
Harvesting hydro power from rain gutters! It sounds impossible but it works. This is part 1 of a video series on the theory and implementation of capturing hydro-electric power from the roof. For part 2 click here:
• Rain Gutter POWER #2 -...
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"It's way easier in metrics" that sentence from an american is gold
When it comes to engineering, almost all Americans use metric. The only reason that imperial is still dominant is that most Americans don't use it as their primary system.
@@skitzoid8202 As a civil engineer, we still use SAE. I'd be curious to know what engineers are mostly using metric.
@Clint Bland The pumps I work on specced in BTUs would beg to differ.
I feel like most Europeans think we don’t use both systems
Lol no one says metric is worse?? It’s just what we have. People make way too big of a deal about it
the world would have more physicists, engineers and mathematicians if guys like these taught in public schools
Unfortunately there are more teachers for gender studies and other liberal arts.
Allen Loser hi, evolutionary psychologist with a background in evolutionary anthropology here 👋🏻 you’re referring to sexes. Gender can refer to sex but does not have to. Gender is typically associated with language and ideas. Neutral gender pronouns have been around for as long as we can tell. Gender norms actually are arbitrary and have been for a long time.
I’m not sure how social sciences are an impediment to STEM studies. Most of my closest friends are chemical engineers and don’t seem to have a problem with it. The issue is really our education system and it’s inability to make kids want to learn. And yes the bureaucratic red tape and complete undervaluation of teachers plays a big role.
[edited for typos]
Allen Loser additionally- I didn’t not intend any of my previous comment necessarily as an argument but more as some interesting ideas that relate to the conversation.
Cheers
Agreed
Amen to that
I absolutely love the format of this video. You go through each step of the process: the idea, the problem, the potential solution, the reasoning, the design and paper calculations, the actual building process.
This is excellent teaching material and a real life experience of a very complete engineering process.
MP4?
"I'm positive, I lost an electron!" -- I see what you did there.
Thats funny
Maybe you aren't positive.
Maybe you just lost a hole?
Can we all just stop for a minute and appreciate that transition at 3:45
that was satisfying
Extremely smooth.
Lol oh yehhhhh that was golden. How’d he do that!
@@lahmyaj He went out of the frame, and then used a program that makes everything cartoony (or traced the edges himself, but the little artifacts tells me he did it with a program for finding edges / cartoonifier) and then put it on top of the paper (the paper is blank where the cartoon fence is, he added it later)
Worthy of the second look, thanks.
4:03 "This is way easier in metric"
Rest of the planet : Yup!
LOL!
Yes
speed488 when Carter was President & me in grade school, teacher says: We’re going to switch to the metric system, kids. I recall weighing paper clips = 1g etc.
In 1980 Reagan is president: Tales solar panels off the White House and says: We don’t need no commie metric system!
@@tockicohi7703 I remember learning about this in a strange way... in the 90s, Yankee Stadium (baseball field) had both standard/metric measurements on the outfield walls. As a kid I remember asking my dad if that was because some teams were in Canada and the answer was no, it was because back in the 70's when the US was switching to metric under Carter, the team got bought and the stadium was completely refurbished/renovated, and all signage at the time had to be in both during a conversion period, and they just never bothered to update the signs after Reagan undid progress.
Rest of the Planet: YEAH, WE KNOW.
WOW! I wasn't expecting how entertaining and captivating this was, and I definitely wasn't expecting what a quality video/editing job it was! Great work!
Wow, thank you!
This exact idea spinned in my head for many years. I never had the chance to try it though. Thank you for trying! 10 thumbs up! Good that there are people like you!
Just found this video and subscribed. As a HS science teacher I assigned this as mandatory viewing during the pandemic. This is SUCH A FANTASTIC job of demonstrating, explaining, testing ect... Seriously, one of the best engineering videos I have seen.
David, I think my family just heard me scream YES thru the walls from my shop! Check out parts 2-4 as well if you haven't already, my "2 Liter Bottle Compressor" video (great example of PV=nRT) and keep an eye on my other channel, BUILD2. I just uploaded a video there about the value of working in teams and plan on uploading some content walking people through my calculations. I'm a busy guy but if you have any insights you think I could use, email me: BUILD2LRN@GMAIL.COM Can't guaranty I'll respond but will try.
Seriously, one of the best examples of 'what they don't teach you in school'.
@@QuintBUILDs and if you are measuring time in 'seconds' , that's metric . Or S.I. units to be precise
My kids are all homeschooled. When I saw you actually explaining how to calculate things I thought, "YES!!! THIS is what everyone fails to do!"
I just told my kids, "See? This is what you can do when you learn math. All of those people who say, 'I don't need to learn math. I'll never use that in my whole life!' can't do the cool things because they never learned the math to do the cool things. No, they won't use math. But that's not because there's something wrong with learning math. It's because no one ever showed them all the cool things they can do with math."
Did you explain to your students why there were three utterly different results with the same wheel? Specifically the fact that with the tap he backshot the wheel, with the first test jet he overshot the wheel (getting the best results) and then in application he UNDERshot the wheel for some reason utterly defeating the purpose of a pelton wheel by having the buckets carrying water uphill for a good portion of the cycle? Or did you miss a great learning opportunity?
I'm about to get my engineering degree, and I must say he does an excellent job of presenting the proper mindset: analyzing the problem, check the math, and then weigh out if it is worth it. This should be shown to all high school students.
Email me PLEASE i need an engineer opinion @: yuyiogamming@gmail.com
@humbug swankerton
14:15 your reaction when it jumped over three brightened my day
I live in the Scottish highlands and in a log cabin with the same kind of roof. I’m 45, a mum of 3 grown children and I used to be a nurse until my back noped and decided it was gonna screw me out of a career. I was ok at chemistry in school but I never considered physics or maths because the teachers were just so apathetic and close to retirement and had no patience for helping us who weren’t especially great at calculations. Had this guy been a teacher at my school, I’d be in a different world! I enjoyed this video very much and I understood everything - I also enjoyed the fact he has a passion for sharing his knowledge. That was like being a student nurse and having a placement where the doctors and surgeons love to show you what they’re doing and make sure you understand.
"The Wruf, the Wruf, the Wruf is on fire"
the wadda
He said roof wrong EVERY FUCKING TIME he said it.
@@zackpokeattack1040 It's an accent
I scrolled down looking for this comment :D Hahaha
How do you pronounce foot? Or hoof?
I feel like I'm back to school, but more interesting
school kills my soul, im about to drop out, or at least just finish online well I get a real job.
except for the theory part
@@jamesnolan6450 Look on the bright side, if you do drop out now, you'll have all the time in the world to speak to your parents as you wait for the virus to go over to actually get a job.
-Edit, Spelling error.
so why schools don't use real life examples to reinforce the theory we just learned? i hate schools doing that! i have nice detailed memory and when i struggled at things, noone tried to figure out why... i also couldn't figure it out on my own, probably because i was 12 and, was, in school, learning, you know
Great content for science classrooms. Love that you include design drawings because a lot of people think you just try things until something works but design first build second is so important.
This Guy is a Genius,...The World needs people like him.
You can tell this guys has an engineering background the moment he takes out the graph paper and formulas instead of eyeballing it
He forgot to take the roof angle into account.
@@nicoj.8242 Yeah i was smacking my head lol
Well there has been quite some eyeballing involved If you ask me :D
@@nicoj.8242 no need an angle for that. A 1.8 gal/min is a 1.8 gal/min at any angle. That is the law of conservation of mass. If you are calculating a force then I will agree on you.
@@nicoj.8242 He did take into account the slope of the roof by eliminating from his calculation. He used the horizontal distance from the peak of the roof to the gutter. This is a straight distance between the center ridge of the house and the outside edge. If he had used the slope distance along the face of the roof he would be incorrectly increasing the area of collection as the rain typically comes straight down and not perpendicular to the face of the roof.
Once the rain hits the roof, and then collects in the gutter, the flow rate is the same no matter what the roof pitch is.
The only difference between a steeply pitched roof and a shallow pitched roof would be the time it takes for the entire roof to drain into the gutter. A steeper roof would initially get the water into the gutter faster, but once there, it's flow is the same, provided both roofs have the same horizontal area.
Who is this man and why is this the first time he’s come up on my recommended
Amen, brother! I felt the same way. I even hesitated to watch at first. I am a fool.
A bored mechanical engineer, evidently
That's what I'm thinking
Sorry, I'm late for class…… by a good 4years 😂. WOW 😮you have to be the smartest YTber I have ever seen. Love your channel and just binged watch 5 episodes. Interesting stuff.
bro i am impressed that you're calculating all this stuff, i'm the type to just wing it and pray to god it works
Your son is ahead of the pack already, having a father like you!
Totally unfair too. That kid knows stuff I didn't learn till I was 40!
@@QuintBUILDs it's not what facts you teach him, it's how you encourage him to think and investigate.
It's the pursuing of ideas that makes the difference.
@@dyvel hmm, fair enough.... so i think im going about teaching my 3 yr old how to read the wrong way, as in memorizing the letters and sounds of letters, i can see her cringe as i pull out the flashcards, im wondering how i go about it in the fashion that you mention, any suggestion by chance?
@@ashadedreflection4486 You should read a interesting story or leave a entertaining video with subtitles for your kid; learn from experience and curiosity rather than memorizing and studying. I think a new language or philosophy are extremely important and something only a kid can really learn, but to each thier own
Heard him pronounce 'roof' weird... Immediately jumped to the comments. Was not disappointed. I love the interwebs 💁🏻
the frame transition from actual footage to a paper with drawings fading in to substitute the movie and brig the spectator to the calculus is very smart! That's how we see someone think even the smallest details!
Your wife is a lucky lady
Great to see a real Engineer who can think systematically with pragmatic approach to solve a problem. Kudos to your effort. Subscribed.
never seen a man so happy about generating 3v, i love this!!
An "American " that just said metric is way easier than imperial. Lmfao. (Australia here) i love it! Not to denote from the fact very cool vid brother. Been considering trying a rather different but similar thing myself. Cheers to you sir.
LOL, most American's think imperial is great, until they try to do something useful with it! That was the joke back in engineering school, anytime the prof gave a problem in inches and pounds you just converted to metric, solved it, then converted the answer back. Seriously! And thanks for the encouraging comments, all of them...
@@QuintBUILDs there's a guy on you tube, angry ram i think he goes by. Does some rather clever stuff with off grid power using Pelton wheels. Not exactly what you are trying but potentially some good brain food for someone such as yourself. Or maybe way to simple, just incase 😉
Oo, sry quint, replied to the wrong mail but still. Haha. ☺
I've seen Angry Ram's thumbnail of his washing machine pelton setup but never watched until now. Very cool. I have access to property with a creek like that, not enough head for pelton but definitely worth experimenting with.
@@QuintBUILDs you tube just gave me another, wasn't searching. ..joe malovich, round turbine housing an improvement? The vid is called. Sry incase this is just annoying now. More brain food 😉
Just incredible. Your creative idea, thoughtful analysis and entertaining and informative teaching is just amazing. Thank-you. You make the world a better place!
14:47 “Alright I don’t want to strip my gears.”
Time to add a clutch.
I see what you did there
Give this man his own TV show! Iv got to say, this overall production is amazingly made; very informative too! Don't understand how anyone could dislike this video.
The peop,e who disliked are people who are 2 lazy
I love this guy. He is smart, concise and has taken lots of time, effort and energy to put a great video together. Great job Quint!!
Thanks Ashton!
Who knew there was such a thing as hydro porn! Hahahaha
Some people may think things like this are dumb because you only get low voltages, but that's how science works, you experiment and adapt
A lot of these comments are tongue-in-cheek or maybe they're rude but the Fact is you have used knowledge and you have shared it and that makes you a hero!
I'm so jealous of all the toys this guy has in his shop.
When you waste your money you will never have much , this man has never smoked , drugged or drank booze on a daily basis and it shows , great job bud , i envy your kids for they will be top of their class with great skills , great job
Thats what she said
This guy is actually teaching some basic physics. I like it!
WOW, one of the best "hands on" science shows I have ever seen! Beats even most professional tv shows. Thank you.
I love how excited you are to see it all come together
This video reaches the perfect balance between funny and informative. Great job ! I may recommend it to my Freshmen Engineering students: it makes for a great exploration of energetic orders of magnitude (and why hydro-electric power requires such gigantic infrastructures !). Thank you for this excellent job !
Thanks so much! Part of me wanted to dive into the math a little deeper but an engineering class would be the perfect place for that. You might also look at my video on filling a tire with a garden hose. It's great for engineering students, especially learning about absolute and gauge pressure in an automotive context.
@@QuintBUILDs Yeah, I saw it too. As a matter of fact, it was the first video of yours that I saw, which made me want to check all the others ! But I felt that something was missing from that other one (or maybe I missed it): I do not recall hearing you cite the value of the base water pressure out of the faucet. Granted, though, depending on how your chained valves work (I am not sure I got that clearly), it may be possible to exceed that base water pressure via the accumulation of bottles on a single rail.
Anyway, I like the way you think, here, and I like that you put efforts into estimating orders of magnitude. That is where engineering starts getting beyond mere tinkering. I will definitely direct my students to your channel.
I don't remember if I included it or not, maybe a quick view of the pressure gauge when I turned on the water? For anyone interested it was much higher than expected, 80 psi!
@@QuintBUILDs That's more than 5 bars ! This is indeed very high ! Don't you get frequent leaks, or premature fatigue of your appliances ? Most plumbery equipments are meant to run at 3 bars or so, not too much more.
This guy does such a great job, doesn't he? He makes the feeling of "Bored" seem non-existant as he informs about a bit of stuff that could actually be useful.... Now to impliment that same system to our school system.... Without failure like the last three times.
Really enjoyed this - great mixture of theory, production quality and madness.
LOL!
Engineer here, very excited that CZcams suggested me your channel 😎 Your explanations are very nice!
Wow... seus vídeos são muito bons! Um verdadeiro engenheiro. A didática é ótima, parabéns!
I was ready to bash this as a dumb idea but really like how he applied engineering methods and achieved a measurable result!
Yeah it's actually interesting
Maybe a case for taller, narrower houses?
Awesome bit of concept engineering. Should be mandatory viewing in every high school. Thx!
The peloton wheel was created in Rjukan. Rjukan is a little town in Norway, I live about 45min from there.
If we Teach this stuff to school students , you would see a big change, a good change
"When will I ever use this in the real world?" well right here
@@FalconWing1813 Hmm.... Us with our American school system could probably impliment that within one thousand years. That quick enough?
A great video and a great idea for the rainy UK. I suppose I 'd need to measure the flow rate from the garden hose but looks like a nice project to try at home.
This is a truly excellent didactic video - I do feel like it's aimed at kids by the tone of voice but the quality of the explanations is top-notch! Thank you!
Power output or not, adding a waterwheel to a rain gutter is always fun.
Very cool, mmm all I need is a plasma cutter, 3D printer, metal machining tools, welder...missing something....great video!
I rarely comment on videos and apologies for the essay ahead of time.
I wanted to say how much joy this video brought me, I’m hoping to apply to do a PHD in physics sometime next year but have had major burnout for the past little while with covid restricting all in person lab and experimental work.
I’ve been doing what I can from my home lab but this video really reminded me of what first got me into engineering and then physics!
I’m a specialist in STEM in no small part due to not being able to clearly communicate wishy washy things like emotions so for lack of better description this video made me warm and fuzzy and had me cheering along like a kid!
You have something really special here that truly captures the essence of experimentation and development.
For what it’s worth thank you for making such great content!
I haven’t even watched the video yet, but based on the feedback from the comments, you sound like an excellent teacher, I’m looking forward to diving into the video! Learning what you have to teach and also how I can be a better teacher too!
When an engineer is in quarantine too long.
this was uploaded in november 2019...
Lol just saw that. I’m sure engineers that are in quarantine are going to try this!
@@osmick15 at least they save themselves all the stuff he had to find out himself and can right into building theirs for I don't know, a rain indicator LED
He's in quarantine?
Nov 2019... not quarantine
Idea to reduce loses:
1. Have eventual nozzle positioned at the base of the make shift reservoir, so water is shooting downwards, as opposed to sideways.
meelokun exactly what I was thinking.
I’m imagining that to make a massive difference, but when you think about the maths, it only adds a tiny bit more to ‘h’ in the equation. There’s no losses except wind resistance to that stream of water going sideways.
Harry C. Well it’s going with gravity more and not fighting it so I think it would help
For that to work, you would also need to implement some sort of filter to prevent clogging.
@@blazethefaith A filter would still clog. Perhaps another approach would be to design a means for debris to simply flow past.
Really inspiring... The world needs moore people like you!
You make engineering fun! Totally enjoyed this video!
The first 10 minutes 'yeaaah i can following made this, this, that, that gear too'
10:05 'nope, i'm not making it, i'm stop dreaming'
Just make it out of plastic(PLA 3d printer) and bearing, no need for metal parts.
@@Madmax23419 or plywood and pvc maybe
EasyBreadToast I was confused on what he was saying
@@owenstewart1160 say that first instead of judging someone for their grammar :)
@@bluboniictonix, I think you may be confused as to who said what. 😊
I have wondered about this so often, awesome to see somebody actually try it out. Also, your drawings are absolutely amazing.
Thanks! Funny how so many people have had the thought. Glad you like the drawings, I tried that first one and loved it so much I can't stop!
I have too! I wondered if I put multiple turbines down the gutter would it generate much power. Imagine if you could do this on major pipes.
This was amazing! Well done and yes, metric is the best.
You put a LOT of time and effort into this video!! Thank you for all your hard work! Can't wait to watch Part 2 :)
This man is but two small persons
enclosed in a trench-coat.
It looks like hes wearing a medical/doctor/chemist lab coat. Just it's black and not white like they usually are.
@FalconerPhoto Having performed the request, the possibility that the coat is simply off color and the top small person is using a voice modulator seems plausible.
@FalconerPhoto looks like a grey trench coat to me
I came up with this idea when I was little. I figured that people weren't doing it because it wasn't enough energy. It's really nice to see someone trying it to see if it's possible :)
You were right to not pursue it. Great for learning but simply not viable.
What an inspiration you are. Love you involved your child too. Awesome!
What a great demonstration that can be scaled up as needed!
The way he says "ruuf" 😂😂😂
murica -_-
yeah really pokes the ear :D
Try hitting the bong every time he says ”Ruuf “
It's for all the dogs that are watching :-)
@@delcat8168 ROFL
Like a crossover between Matthias Wandel and Smarter Every Day... Great video!
This is cool, sir. Yesterday I thought of the same thing, since it's been raining here for more than a month and no sunlight to recharge; though theoretically I did it in a different manner. While searching for related ideas, I came across with your video.
Seiing stoichio here made me soooo stoked!!! This is an amazing project.. Really really cool!
"This is waay easier in metrics"
thx youtube for recommending this to me.
If this is the apocalypse, I wanna be in this guy's group.
Excellent video👍🏼 Great introduction to hydro power for homeschooling on possible off grid power sources.
GREAT educational video on power production. Most people don't have a clue what it takes to generate real, usable amounts of power.......but instead will watch videos where some guy connects a electric motor (with no electric input) to a generator and has a ridiculous claim of 'free' energy.
This is one of the cleanest videos I've seen on CZcams so far. Keep up the good work mate!
This is one of the most entertaining videos that I have seen ever, because you are using the right mix of theory and practice while iterating to improve it.
Dude! I don't know if I knew it until you wrote it... THAT'S my goal. Wow. Going to steal that if you don't mind.
I second this. That's exactly what makes this so good.
Interesting mechanics apart, the expression of satisfaction of this guy when the bulb lights up is priceless! :)
Brilliant project! Great teaching style.
I love it when he says roof. It’s the best.
I am watching this at 2:30 am in norway,
Never know about this channel and i kinda love it :D
I wish i had you as a teacher when i studied welding,
Keep up the great work
That's fab. I've had this idea kicking around in my head for a while now.
Dude I live on the west coast snd I have fantasized the same idea...you are brilliant and you are having fun...as a carpenter I am very impressed with all your skills in the shop... well done...
Thanks 👍
Most of us can’t even be bothered to clean our gutters.
The hero we didn't know we needed. I've been looking into making a system like this to go with solar for a few years now. Thanks for the information! :)
good video, thank you. I've wondered whether this is a feasible thing to do. I like the way you explain it thoroughly.
Hey, thanks for making calculation formulas interesting!
You are brilliant. The joy in your face when you've got it to work is outstanding. Keep up the good work.
0:32 that was smooth, well done
This is my 1st time seeing ur tube. Loved. Love ur science input and love ur engineer mindset. Awesome tube
There are so many lessons in this. Lubrication, rolling resistance, dynamic bearing loading, flow rates, work, force logic, mechanical loss, I have lost count of all them. Great video.
Man, I had this idea 5 years ago when I was still studying as a mechanical engineer. My professors didn't like the concept and said it's not possible. I wish I had you as my professor. Continue the great work!
I've seen people say that too, that it's impossible. C'mon, it's possible, just not practical! I think it's a great exercise for engineering students myself.
“Rather than building it from scratch, I’m just printing it on my 3D printer 😏” - says casually
Your the type of friend I wished lived near my house. Amazing.OOOO your son will be smarter and proud of you when he grows up
Such a great little project! The way you frame it and the amount of work you put in makes it seem like more than a "little project" though :D
within the first few seconds: damn this guy is an engineer!
takes out engineering notepad
me: Subscribed
I look forward to more videos.
I used to have the same idea and used it for a thesis in my senior high research but didn't have the enough materials and knowledge about the mathematics and engineering. so yup good job to see someone actually doing it
⭐️ A suggestion that will definitely help your project.
You need to align the water jet to spray from the top allowing gravity to help spin the wheel.
In this video the jet is spraying from the bottom of the peloton wheel intern fighting gravity.
Loved the video, I always though that harnessing the power of our piped water could go somewhere as well, I have seen some water pipe generators as well in design stage...
0:09 the sound my dogs make when they’re hungry. 😂 just a joke nice video from NYC 💪✌️
That’s the one that got me lol
It irritates me throughout the whole wide 🙈🤷🏼♂️
Ruff ruff
ive had an idea like this just sitting around in my mind for years nice to finally see it in reality :)
Looked up rain as renewable energy, this was the first video I clicked on and the first sentence resonated as I live in Oregon, and the rain was absurd this last week.
Thanks for the detailed walkthrough :D. Ive always wanted to do this.
6:28: Thanks for turning my lights off....
Ah yes! The algorithm did it again.
Here I am, 2 AM.
Trying to sleep, yet stuck so deep.
I don't know this channel, the video's cool.
Must go now, tomorrow there's school.
You have a Very Valuable Pedagogic Quality; Really! Thanks for that :) Regards.
Amazing video! The last thing you need to make this a complete, environmentally sustainable solution is to funnel all of the runoff from the turbine into a rainbarrel for water conservation.