Patent ID: 7918087

Claim:
A method of relocating a water potential energy head, comprising: providing a plurality of relocation conduit having a first end at an upper elevation and a second end at a lower elevation, said second end being located at a different location from said first end, providing a manifold at said lower elevation for combining the water in said plurality of relocation conduits and feeding said water to said riser conduit, whereby water entering said relocation conduits flows through said manifold, and upward through said riser to re establish nearly its starting level of potential energy, providing a riser conduit having a bottom end coupled to and extending generally upward from said manifold to a top end of said riser conduit the level of said first end of said relocation conduit to permit water entering said first end of said relocation conduit to seek its entering level, causing water at said first end of said relocation conduit to enter said relocation conduit and flow down to said second end of said relocation conduit flow through said manifold and then up said riser conduit to said top end of said riser conduit, thereby to restore much of the potential energy that said water had at said first end of said relocation conduit so as to make said potential energy available at said different location.