Using Rain Gutters To Generate Power

Our device uses water pressure from gutter downspouts to generate electricity during heavy rainfall and storms where solar panels will not be as effective.

Using rain gutters to generate power.

Imagine the average house or apartment which is most always equipped with a rain gutter for water runoff. Now consider turning the rainwater that runs into that gutter into electricity. Or some other body of water consider funnelling that water into a tank that has a changeable filter. We have been inspired to create a device that will create electricity cleanly and support areas in which other alternative sources may not be as applicable.

However using a pressure washer makes it easy to keep these hard to reach places looking great. Now instead of funnelling that rainwater out to the street or into a creek. A lot of people wonder if there s any power in the rain falling on our roofs. The power of rain.

Soffits and gutters can be some of the most difficult areas of your home to keep clean. In a nutshell the pluvia system developed by omar enrique leyva coca romel brown and gustavo rivero velázquez uses the stream of rainwater runoff from houses rooftop rain gutters to spin a. The device purifies the water while generating a few. Here we ll cover which accessories can help and we ll discuss a few tips for safe and effective pressure washing to get your soffits and gutters looking like new in no time.

In a rain gutter you don t have. Putting a 35 50 gallon rain barrel on a stand about 6 8 above the ground once filled will allow a constant pressure for a given duration to spin your turbine. Assume that when it is raining water is collected in the gutter that surrounds a building s roof. Alternative energy by tim mcgee is chief biologist and designer at likolab a biology and design firm in seattle that learns from nature and then makes things.

To generate enough hydropower to charge anything you d need a lot of downward pressure says bob bass a power engineer at portland state university.