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LANDLORDS COWER IN FEAR OF MAOTRAIN
"that train pic is too powerful lmao" - u/Cadende
Okay, hear me out, I was just looking at pictures of beavers and thought to myself, what if someone used a beaver dam for hydropower? I mean my first thought is of course that wouldn't work...unless? I mean I know nothing about dam construction or hydropower, so I can't actually disprove this to myself. Why wouldn't this work? Or could it?
The power available from a hydropower dam is P = 9.81๐โ๐ where P is the power in kilowatts, q is the flow rate in cubic meters per second, h is the head height in meters, and ฮท is the efficiency factor. This paper claims that beaver dams have a head height from 0.3m-5m with most below 1.5m and a width up to 46m but usually 10m or less and mentions that beaver dams can withstand a flow rate of 1.34m^3/s per meter width for a dam with a height of 1.4m. So if we estimate a 75% efficiency and go with 1.34m^3/s per meter width, 10m width and 1.4m head that gives us:
P = 9.81 * 13.4 m^3/s * 1.4m * 0.75
for a power of 138kW.
that's a lot less power i'm assuming?
Less than what? For comparison, the average Amerikkkan home uses about 1.2kW.
I did not fully absorb your comment but I reread it and understand it now