On 5/24/17 10:02 AM, Micky wrote:
Have any of you heard of microhydroelectric power? Do you know anyone
using it? Do you knwo anything about it?

I think it's this guy who has a hydroelectric generating station no
bigger than a big microwave oven in a little stream by his house.
https://www.homepower.com/articles/m...tric-evolution
His stream only runs some of the time, but mine runs 27/7/365. It's
only about 60 feet from the house. Burying the cable would be
difficult because there are an awful lot of rocks. I can barely
plant a flower. OTOH the cable guy had no trouble wiggling the cable
an inch or two into the ground. I just have to do the same thing 4 to
8 times.

The government might have a problem with you doing anything to the
stream. It depends on the stream being navigable. Here's a start:
http://nationalrivers.org/river-fact-or-fiction.html
Add the Clean Water Act:
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/05/27/epa-expands-clean-water-regulations
I don't know how the Clean Water Act's issues turned out. It
sounded as if they were pushing to regulate basic low spots in fields.
Could they have jurisdiction over a field if it has a spot that floods
once every few years? That sort of thing was the problem.