[jgoodwin]

Recovery of otherwise-wasted energy is becoming more important. The hybrid cars now on the market and an idea about placing windmills next to highways to be turned by the constant wind suggest looking into other sources. The constant water flow from municiple water systems and water towers could be used to drive turbines just as a hydroelectric dam, but to generate electricity on a smaller scale.

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[bigGmonaro]

I have had an idear that is like yours , it requirers a small turbine conected to the mains meter of all property conected to mains water . The turbine is conected to the power grid and as water flows past every property 24-7 it can give power to the grid . The contribution from each turbine may be small but times it by the population of some major cities and the power contribution could be huge .