Markovic Self-Propelled River Pump

[risor]

this is cool

[enticed2zeitgeist]

Wow! Great concept!

[OneBigPappa]

personally I would get about a dozen 50' garden hoses and just use the siphon method. You prime the hose by leaving it curled up, hold on to one end, putting it in the river completely, cap one end with your hand and drag it out. might want to weigh down the other end in the river and put a screen over it. if you need 100' then use 100' feet. You just need more hose on the dry side to siphon it out.

[brickster240]

@OneBigPappa ...and if you want to really pump the water, which means you want to bring it higher than the river's water level, what do you do?

[sok8888]

The efficiency is bad. Why not dam up the river for a hydro instead?

[megatwingo]

@sok8888

If you have the money, time and knowledge to dam a river up....hey let´s go! :)

And I don´t even have mentioned the ecological results for fish, river and landscape of such a dam.

I like this pump.

Especially for people with few money and need more mobile solutions than a big dam.

[TheJohn1320]

@sok8888 ROFL, wayyy off course there captain Kirk

It's SMALL scale for homes/ small farms. You go ahead and build that dam for your home, and tell me how that works out..

[PlugUlgy]

Wonder if it could be used to generate electricty? Perhaps pumping water up hill to a storage tank. Then release back down hill to a micro-hydro set up back into the river.

[windfucker26]

smart



[piespokladowy]

Very good idea!

[lslavychecker]

THESE WATER PUMP DOES NOT NEED ELECTRIC...

[lslavychecker]

THESE WATER PUMP DOES NOT NEED ELECTRIC....

[TheWindGinProject]

I really like the river pump! I can see this unit becoming an absolute necessity for many people around the world. I think it is a definite winner.

[agungk]

Similar performance could be achieved with simple half-pipe turbine (also submerged horizontally  so it can be used on shallow but fast rivers.

The benefit would be sturdier construction since no flapping mechanism, cheaper and easier to construct.

[zvonant75]

The simplest solutions are always the best. But for so simple solution as this one, is nearly unbelievable that it's coming so late.

[MladjiBata]

Brilliant

[smarkov12]

This solution is offering really great possibilities for us here. We need contact too.

[PESNetwork]

You can find contact info on the two links in the description for this video.

[FearRonPaulCultists]

Water rams are (1) less costly (2) more efficient and (3) last much longer. The device in this video is inferior to old technology.

[cunflfuf]

Odlican poso! Svaka cast - bravo! Zasluzenih 5 zvjezdica.

[schinks]

Probably the best invention so far according to water pumping!

[N3m3cis]

Cool stuff!