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I had this idea "free power available from the tap" a while back and I thought it was funny and r-slurred. 200+ watts is way less r-slurred than I expected
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Imagine one of those connected to your shower and the power is stored for balancing peak demand. There's some really cool tech that became obscure when oil became so plentiful in the early 1900s. It's a shame. They even had solar panels working off Schottky diodes rather than photovoltaic cells.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-solar-panel
"George Cove, a forgotten solar power pioneer, may have built a highly efficient photovoltaic panel 40 years before Bell Labs engineers invented silicon cells."
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You do realize the power from the faucet initially comes from electric pumps right? You're just really inefficiently transferring energy from a few blocks away, causing a pump to kick on still straining the electric grid.
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Not if you live in a basement.![:!marseyindignant: :!marseyindignant:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyindignant.webp)
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Ok, if your municipality uses surface water and treatment is relatively low energy then this would technically work. You win.
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If the population is drinking from a hole in the ground, is it worthy of being called a municipality?
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You will not survive the water wars
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My family owns property literally adjacent to one of the reservoirs
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Wow, you're next to the first source of water your city will drain dry? I take back what i said.
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Surface dwellers BTFO.
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I know about energy losses from conversion I just think it's cool![:marseyindignantturn: :marseyindignantturn:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyindignantturn.webp)
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The more salient point is that they use electricity to establish the pressure so it would still drain electric from the grid.
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A water tower is just miniature pumped storage
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The current research for improving photovoltaics is doping the semiconductors with nanoparticles manufactured to specific sizes to induce plasmon resonances and thus disperse unwanted wavelengths while extending the paths of wanted wavelengths to increase their chance of absorption.
I am extremely curious to know whether the addition of something like that could make a technology like this viable. If luck permits it it could also still potentially be be low-tech and simple to manufacture, because for certain sizes and metals people have been intentionally doping different materials with nanosize particles since the times of Roman Empire.
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I think the site is very cool too!
Although since he's a
he sometimes makes rslured arguments or the foundations he's partnered have a definite
bias. It's a good read tho ![:marseyfallout: :marseyfallout:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyfallout.webp)
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Glory to Russia!
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