Power from screwing the system!

[rynnor]

Whilst on the bog today I had a revelation as to what must be the worlds most environmentally destructive way to generate power.

In theory you could generate power by running your cold water tap constantly and using the water pressure to run a small dynamo - but by god would it upset the water company if they ever found out (incidentally if anyone did try this dont leave it running at night - they always do their leak detection/diagnostics in the middle of the night and will be able to pinpoint you).

Plus the water board would keep digging up the mains in your area convinced there was a major leak...

 

[Wij]

Whilst on the bog today I had a revelation as to what must be the worlds most environmentally destructive way to generate power.

In theory you could generate power by running your cold water tap constantly and using the water pressure to run a small dynamo - but by god would it upset the water company if they ever found out (incidentally if anyone did try this dont leave it running at night - they always do their leak detection/diagnostics in the middle of the night and will be able to pinpoint you).

Plus the water board would keep digging up the mains in your area convinced there was a major leak...

Unless you're on metered water

 

[Chilly]

ever stop and wonder where the pressure comed from? Big fuck off diesel pumps What you would be doing is reducing the effcieny of the process to about 2% just to get a few watts out of it

 

[rynnor]

Unless you're on metered water

Then you'd have a great reason to say your meter was broken

 

[rynnor]

What you would be doing is reducing the effcieny of the process to about 2% just to get a few watts out of it

Aye - tis an evil thought...

 

[Utini]

Not really evil, more bloody silly.

 

[xane]

Who do you think you are ? An artist ?

 

[JBP|]

"I understand we are in a drought. But I am an artist so I'm not actually wasting water for nothing."

I propose to hang this idiot in the name "art".

 

[Chilly]

Who do you think you are ? An artist ?

well lets hope thames water can send him a nice big bill at the end of it.

 

[rynnor]

Who do you think you are ? An artist ?

He's not even generating power from it... and what a ridiculous excuse for doing stupid things - when did art become about self promotion - a lot of the award winning art is shit nowadays and the artists are tossers...

I figured a refinement on my idea which would avoid wasting water - put the water wheel within a main water pipe then peoples normal usage would power it though they might experience a slight pressure difference

 

[rynnor]

I propose to hang this idiot in the name "art".

Cut him in half down the middle with a chainsaw then display him in a glass tank of formaldehyde - its the way he would have wanted to go

 

[tris-]

i killed babies and strung their guts up in glass cases.

in the name of art u c.

 

[MYstIC G]

He's not even generating power from it... and what a ridiculous excuse for doing stupid things - when did art become about self promotion - a lot of the award winning art is shit nowadays and the artists are tossers...

I figured a refinement on my idea which would avoid wasting water - put the water wheel within a main water pipe then peoples normal usage would power it though they might experience a slight pressure difference

Which would have to be resolved with bigger diesel pumps?

 

[rynnor]

Which would have to be resolved with bigger diesel pumps?

Or they just get a barely noticeable loss of pressure but aye - its not perpetual motion

 

[dysfunction]

Who do you think you are ? An artist ?

I think he stopped his "art work" as he started getting very bad press due to the water shortages.