I rent and pay for power, but not gas or water. Hypothetically, could a man rig up some sort of mini hydro electric dam in his bathtub with the faucet?
I was thinking of feeding a tall container with a small turbine in the bottom.
Has anyone ever done anything like this? Do they even make small hydroelectric turbines or would I have to diy it?
You are far from the first person to ask this question, even on this specific board.
Short answer: You could, but it's moronic. You can't get much power even with a well-engineered turbine, and the landlord would immediately notice someone was using 1000+ gallons a day.
Free gas is interesting. In theory, you could get a nat gas generator and exhaust the thing outside. You'd have to run extension cords and power strips all over the place, since you can't tie it into the wall outlets, but it would be a lot less obvious than running the tub 24/7.
Are you moronic, or just pretending to be?
like this?
>Hypothetically, could a man rig up some sort of mini hydro electric dam in his bathtub with the faucet?
Yes, would be able to generate enough power to light up a single LED.
You'd be better of buying a cheapo solar panel of amazon and sticking it in your window.
He doesn't own the house so he can't build shit that leaves holes
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why are crossboarders like this?
>not gas
why would your go to be the water and not the gas?
just burn gas for power you can buy gas generators not sure what you plan to power with it though
Put the water in a big tank, hook up the generator to a pump and when the water comes out the bottom, pump it back up to the top.
That way you get energy without using up as much water.
Someone pays for that water. When they notice their water bill is 15x what it normally is they're going to start looking for a reason.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/91/
I have to hand it to this moron spamming these stupid question threads on here, they put a decent amount of effort into wasting everyone's time