Waterlilly Turbine

[larrie]

Found this on a click through link on another site, https://www.waterlilyturbine.com/. It is a small portable water turbine that you pit in a flowing stream. It generates power to charge USB devices or 12 volt batteries..

[Otter]

That’s cool!

[IanF]

I can see that being useful for charging a USB battery pack where you can leave it plugged in for long periods while you're out doing stuff.

[MountainBikeRoamer]

Clever contraption! Could have used that using wind power over Memorial Day weekend when we camped out in Anza Borrego, it was gusty as heck out there.

[Twoxentrix]

Cool gadget - Using the flow of virtually any water source is appealing, and that they integrated a hand crank is pretty cool. Curious how much wind you would need to actually get the blades turning fast enough to make it useful.

[shadetreevanman]

Cool product. Can't think of much use for me as we're not around freely flowing water that much here in SoCal, but now that I know it's out there, maybe I will find a use. I'm useful like that...

[optionsexplored]

You could have it strapped to the roof when you drive too!