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We lived off grid in the back mountains of NC for 27 years. After several years of no electricity, I put in a micro hydro system for power. With lots of vertical drop, we got more power from the pressure than the volume of water. It was really cool to see the little, maybe 1.5" high flow of water exiting a 6" pipe, and realize that was making our power. Not a lot, but about 500 watts continuous after losses adds up, and enough with careful AC motor size choices and use, wood heat, and gas refrigeration and water heat, the hot water supplemented by a water jacket in our wood cookstove firebox and power shunted from the power system batteries as they reached top voltage.
The tricky part of this sort of system was the conversion from battery storage DC to AC, requiring an inverter. And even "pure sine wave" inverters, to create a "sine wave" from DC, the complex process tends to also leave noise. I had a special "sine wave" inverter for audio, but still had some noise from the power system that showed up in the stereo...not a lot, but not perfect by any means. That was 12 years ago we left that system, and presumably the tech has improved.
However, when we looked into doing a grid-tied solar system here in NM, we got concerned that inverters, though they are well regulated voltage wise, still put out some EMF and RF, not just in the air, but in the AC lines. There may be workable solutions that are not cost prohibitive, and Tesla may have solved this. But having health problems at the time, finding little online, and pretty weak attention to these matters by the "professionals" we asked...perhaps supported by some levels of denial the dreamy goodness of solar implies, I lost steam looking into it.
For best health and serious audio though, I suspect this may be worth some research if you get serious about home energy making.
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