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Suggested: 's/moving water/very reliable moving water/'.

A who lot of smaller rivers & streams have highly seasonal flow rates. And that's in years which do not qualify as "drought".




Aside from just flow, you need substantial head -- their flow chart shows that their smallest 500kw turbine needs at a minimum 1,200gpm and ~60ft head through the turbine, so you'd need a river with much more than that so you're not fully destroying the ecosystem. That really, really restricts the possible locations.


In the video they talk about installations with 5m head (300kW) and 2m head (15kW).




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