Reply to post: Re: The elephant in the water pipe?

Water pipes hold flood of untapped electricity potential

Richard 12 Silver badge

Re: The elephant in the water pipe?

Where does the water go afterwards?

There's only generation if it's flowing.

It almost certainly takes more energy to make potable water than you could recover in a turbine, and water for irrigation is valuable too.

So the generation only exists while the water is being used for something else.

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