Weird New YouTube Hobby: Building Miniature Hydroelectric Dams

CleanTechnica
By Jennifer SensibaAug 23, 2021, 5:00 pm243 pts
There’s a weird new hobby that looks like it’s becoming increasingly popular on YouTube: the construction of fully functional hydroelectric dams. They don’t just look like full-scale dams, either. They have real generators built in using small DC motors that are actually turned by water coming through the…

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