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Hrm. I like that with the spoons. That was spiffy and gave me ideas.

What if somebody created an artificial drop. Not to large, but, large enough to have say, concrete funnels or something like that. Water would tip off the water fall, into the funnels, and become pressurized as it was forced into a smaller space. At the bottom of the funnel, have the screw. Let gravity do all the work. In a ten foot wide creek (Used only for example) you could have three funnels, each three feet wide to collect water. Materials could be anything, but concrete I think would be best. (Also for example) Say you had 3 creeks of varying sizes, you could spread some of the funnels out, having 3 on one creek, 2 on another, and a solitary funnel on another.

I have a lot of ideas all of a sudden. But I lack the knowledge of making most of them work or even knowing if they are practical, like my idea for creating a river of wind using black rocks to creature escapable surface heat to create more wind to move the air screws.

I even have something of an idea in my head involving steam. I was thumbing through a book of Greek inventions (A good source of inspiration) and I saw one of the early steam engines / cartoon. A large hollow discus would be mounted over a water tank mounted over a fire. Out f the sides of the discus, there were two arms, with nozzles pointing in different directions. Steam would cause the discus to spin animating the picture in a very crude two frame animation. Anyhoo... What if I was to use solar power to heat water into steam somehow. Have the steam cause something to spin, like the Greek animation discus, and the spinning generated electricity. Hrm. That also involves jet power in a away... How to get the most bang from your buck with steam exhaust causing the spinning thingamajigs to do their thing. This could be dangerous with hot steam spraying out. Same idea as a water wheel, only using water in a different form to get it to spin. But could solar panels get enough juice to boil water? Not a practical system, for when the sun goes out. But it's an interesting idea. Might be a practical idea for somebody that lives in a place with a lot of natural steam vents from the earth.

My last idea was taken from a pogo stick. Say you have a large running body of water. Now, imagine, two tubes, on inside the other, filled with magnets and all that junk you need to create juice when the rub back and forth over one another. Have one end anchored to a large solid object, and, the other end down stream, where it would collect with water and pull pull pull till the spring and perhaps some sort of water release mechanism caused it to snap back, with the two tubes, one inside the other, creating much needed magnetic friction. Enough of those might generate a decent source of power. And none of this prolly made sense. I don't have a diagram :(