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My Teenagers Built a Waterwheel (in a day)

Name: My Teenagers Built a Waterwheel (in a day)
Uploaded: 2023-01-19T23:09:37+00:00
Duration: 27 s
Channel: Justin Rhodes
Description: In this brief excerpt from Victor Justin Rhodes’s YouTube video, a parent (Speaker A) proudly showcases a watermill that their teenage children (Speakers…

19 Jan 2023 · 0 min

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In this brief excerpt from Victor Justin Rhodes’s YouTube video, a parent (Speaker A) proudly showcases a watermill that their teenage children (Speakers B and C) constructed in a single day. The teens explain that the waterwheel is intended to be coupled to a gear system and a generator to convert flowing water into electricity for a pole barn on the property. The dialogue is informal and supportive, with the parent encouraging the teens to keep refining the prototype despite it not yet producing power. The exchange highlights hands‑on learning, family collaboration, and a DIY approach to small‑scale renewable energy.

Look at what my young teenagers just built. What is that? A watermill. Watermill? What are you gonna do with a watermill?
Convert it to electricity.
For what? For the pole barn. The pole barn!
Why are you yelling at me? If it will convert, you're acting very hopeful.
Well, it might not convert today, but you keep working at this, you can do it! You built all this in a day. You keep at it, you'll be able to do it. Show me how it works.
The water turns the wheel, which goes to the gear, which will go to there and go to the converter. He had the brain full of it.
Well, what was your job?
Doing what he said.
You guys keep it up.