Smart pipe - a new source of electricity
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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The new system for water pipes allows to generate electric energy, when water starts to move through pipes, it allows to reduce the general expenses for energy, thus created hydro power does not present a danger to the world around.
In the pipes are built special rotating turbines, which produce energy as soon as the pipes begin to flow water, and send it to the generator.
As the general director of the company Greg Semler, whose specialists have developed a new system, now it is rather difficult to create an energy source that will be harmless to the environment. However, the company managed to do almost impossible - experts created a source of energy inside the pipe, through which drinking water flows, while the atmosphere and the representatives of the animal world is not threatened.
As is known, water utilities use a huge amount of electricity, and the new system will significantly reduce the cost of providing the city with drinking water. As experts noted, utility companies can be hydropowered for their own needs or sold.
Greg Semler also noted that there is already a project in one of the cities of the State of California, where the new system delivers energy to illuminating night streets lanterns. In the daytime, the city may well use hydropower to recover some costs.
In one of the Portland pipelines, new systems have been introduced that generate power for the city network. Such a system is not yet capable of providing the whole city, but for the supply of individual buildings, the pipes produce enough electricity, for example, this energy can be used to provide the school, and also to apply for compensation of the city's general electricity bills.
It should be noted that the system works only in those places where there is a natural flow of water or under the influence of gravity, when pumping the system on the contrary, it starts to expend energy. However, such pipes have one distinctive ability - they have built-in sensors that control water volumes, something that was previously impossible for public utilities.
Electric infrastructure in a few decades has achieved incredible progress, but for the water of such a system has not yet been created, said Semler. As an example, he led a burst pipe near the University of California, which caused about 20 million gallons of water to be lost at the height of the drought.
The fact that the pipe burst, it became known only when informed from the university, and the new system will measure the pressure in the pipe, which will give an opportunity to learn about the tightness of the pipeline. Thanks to the introduction of the new system, it will be possible to obtain information about the current state of the pipe, and utility companies will be able to manage the infrastructure more efficiently.
Also, thanks to the sensors, it will be possible to control the quality of drinking water that is supplied to the population.
The developer company plans to cooperate with the cities and implement a new system as the old pipelines are worn out, and the possibility of cooperation with developing countries is also not ruled out.
In addition, this method of obtaining energy allows you to have a remote source, for example, outside the city, where there is no electricity.