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Solar panels, wind turbines, renewable energy, water - life off- Your Life. Well Spent. - Repair Manifesto. Inhabitat. How to build a Water Motor. “Most of the common machines used in workshops, industry, and farms are driven by motors of only 0.5 – 5 horsepower.

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The Watermotor will produce this amount of power at an extremely low cost and with a minimum of ecological disruption.” That’s right – cheap electricity, lower cost than solar panels for example. Micro-Hydro Design Manual: A Guide to Small-Scale Water Power Schemes – buy it from Amazon USMicro-hydro Design Manual: Guide to Small-scale Water Schemes – buy it from Amazon UK A few of the nice features of this unit is that it doesn’t require a great volume of water, so the traditional dam does not need to be constructed, reducing cost, complexity, and ecological impact. It’s also designed to be locally serviced, and locally produced, enabling 3rd world villages to not only have low cost power, but a local industry.