Thanks guys I thought I was safe as long as it wasn't turning to fast .
I got to looking for ways to use " all this free gas " and I haven't even got it yet . I have a gas water heater on the back porch though lol . A good gas stove ect , ect , I'm ready for it with the exception of a few things . We have citizens gas now but really can't afford to use it much we supplement with wood . Getting ready to use this gas got me to thinking " How can I make out using this stuff " lol hell lets be honest thats how I ended up here .
I've already build a couple small kiln / blast furnace things one real small one and a bigger one in a 55 gal barrel yea you guess it " GAS FIRED " . Then I got the idea of a gas fired engine making me some electric and ended up here with a lot of big ideas and no knowledge of what I even needed . I jumped right in and had to have something so I bought big magnets and wire and will build something wether it's what I need or not . I desided to just go with a wind PMA to start with and learn somethings . However in the PMA building process/thinking process I'm not sure thats my best choise .
I drive across this bridge everyday . Most the time the water is just setting in puddles a few feet deep and looks like it sets still . It's down to a trickle now but were going through a record drought this year . This is the first year in 14 that the creek dried up . I'll have to wait till next month to measure any amount of water comming over my little rock wall . Once it does it will flow plenty of water for 9 to 10 months . It usually does slow way down in late summer but most years is already flowing by now .
It's a violent little crick though . Average it may only poor 6 maybe 8 inches of water over the complete rock wall about 12 perhaps 15 feet wide . But at times like an hour after a down poor it can be almost to the bottom of the bridge . I have seen it up over the bridge and under that storage trailer setting there . The water has never failed us . I built the wall and run my water line above ground on the solid bed rock . It's never froze in winter for 14 years now .
I'm now starting to think of a water wheel to drive a PMA not wind . If I can ever tap into my gas to produce electrical power well find . But I can count on more water than wind in my location . probably 10 fold more days of running water .
Problems I can see now .
Wheel will have to float somehow to prevent it from going underwater when the water level changes .
A lot of crapp goes down this small crick , everything from logs to kids bycicles .
I think a way to channel water to a small gate could be built in such a way as to prevent most of the floating debree from going into the wheel .
Permits , any legal ussues that have to be delt with to do a run of the river type hydro electric project .
Distance from house . On a tall enough tower I could put the tower next to my house making shorter wires . From my house to the crick is about 200 ft .
The way I see it water would be a bigger pain in the rear to construct and to get permits and so on but it would still be my best bet for 24 hour a day pma turning .I wouldn't have to worry about wearing out engines just let the wheel turn continiously . Just turning a floating wheel about 6 to 8 feet high and running about a one inch shaft to a PMA up on the bank . Looks like you could get some killer RPM's using a pullie the size of the wheel and small pullie on the PMA .
I can research most things but I found a cool little wheel someone built to pump water to a cabin here on this site once lol Can't find it now 
The guy built one to flimzy but it worked good enough he built a better one .
Anyone know how to find this again I'll save it to favorites this time ?
Plus any info on where to look or contact to find out federal, state , local regulations governing hydro electric for Tenn . Looked once but was in a hurry and didn't find much on it other that TVA and plenty of big plants no info for permits things like that .
Any help is much appreachated the PMa is comming along good THANKS
