Okay, hear me out, I was just looking at pictures of beavers and thought to myself, what if someone used a beaver dam for hydropower? I mean my first thought is of course that wouldn't work...unless? I mean I know nothing about dam construction or hydropower, so I can't actually disprove this to myself. Why wouldn't this work? Or could it?

  • pooh [she/her]
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    10 months ago

    Not sure if this is what you're talking about, but small-scale hydropower is definitely a thing and can be done fairly cheaply: https://youtu.be/1KyL1-0A0Gw

    You're not going to generate enough electricity from a small damn to provide power to anything for more than a very small group of people though.