Williamson ram pump

[UniversalExpanse]

i suppose if you added a water generator in-line and feed the water back up to the reservoir it probably stop?

[zl3cat]

@UniversalExpanse It's not a free energy machine. You could get the same effect (with more moving parts) by using a waterwheel in the stream to drive a pump. It's just taking the energy of a large amount of flowing water and using that to pump a much smaller amount of water at high pressure.

[spentacle]

It's not pressure or force, it's the MOMENTUM the water builds up that does the work. Clearly stated in the video that a portion of the water is pumped up to a higher level. We had two of these on the farm for 40 plus years, made by Blakes Hydram.

[PumpManufacturers]

excellent

[alexpositivecharge]

i dont understand.

[arturodegato]

this is exactly a technology we want to promote - the so-called zero-carbon footprint technology in community development. great idea! this helps a lot in reducing carbon emmission. in the face of climate change, this is very good.

[twinman009]

its a lot older than you may think

check this link if you have time

on wikipedia

Hydraulic ram

[candr]

@twinman009 Our farm had one until the mid 1950's I don't know how long it was there before, I was born in 1936 and it was old when I first saw it as a child. Granted you keep it cleared and repaired, but it did a good job pumping the water to the cow watering tank.

[iHeartElectricalEng]

wow, that's amazing. and old.

[tekknorat]

This is beautiful, cost efficient and so on, but... if you don't have a running stream near location you want to install this pump?

[bobbobmarley27]

awesome

[jayjay87571]

do you need electricity to run this pump? does anybody know?

or does it just the the pressure of the water to run.

[tekknorat]

@jayjay87571 watch the video again... carefully :)

[candr]

@jayjay87571 Its the pressure of the water droping from a height creating pressure to pump it on up. As long as water runs it will pump a percentage of it to a higher point. Its not free energy, you need to keep it up and parts will wear out, but you can keep it running for years if you take care of it. As I stated earlier, the one we had lasted for decades before I was born (1936) and until it was replaced by an electric pump in the 1950's.

[biela0399]

@jayjay87571

This pump doesn't need electricity to run, just a water reservoir in the top of a hill.

The force of the water going down does this motion on the valve.

[SpydernD]

wow, that is really neat. Do you have a distributor in North America, or Canada?

[josephnz2000]

great idea bit what a waste of water

[candr]

@josephnz2000 Not really the water is what powers the amount pumped up, and you don't want to stop the flow anyway, just use it.

[vox1philippines]

NICE!

[rerere284]

oo! then you could put a plant with that autowatering system above it and use the spurted out water :D

[SuperMrduncan]

Good idea, good pump...

[cairun]

nice video! thx for sharing

[jjlagrito]

cool it can save me money and helps plants and things that need water

[ductonius]

Interesting design. Thanks for posting the video.

[pilothawk400]

Great demonstration on how this type of pump works!

[D4nnyTh4B0y]

Brilliant

[AcowpieB]

Absolutely fantastic video! Thanks for sharing your product.