If you have a creek on your land one of these can power your house. If you are on a slope then more the better. The trompe can be made from pipes on the ground, I am not sure if the pipes have to be vertical but is better if it is.
It consists of two pipes going down into the earth and a air tank in the middle to collect the air. Air is mixed with the incoming water in pipe one and is swept down and compressed and it flows under the tank releasing some of the air and returning to the surface in the second pipe which is lower than the intake pipe. Simple but it works the good thing is the water is in better shape than when it went in to the system.
Every 14 feet down produces one atmosphere of pressure from memory.
Check this out on wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe
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