World record! Pumping 18 ft high with the Tiny (Less than 2 PSI) bubble pump and nano airlift !

Citizen Scientists, please try to beat this height using the rules in my video on the link below.
This shows pumping to 18 ft high using the little old bubble pump! This is currently the highest that anyone has pumped using the experiment "Nano airlift pump Challenge" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKtB1YKoMxk This might help windowfarmers, and has potential (with several of these bundled together) as a low tech deep well pump.

I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (http://www.youtube.com/editor)

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[brendahodgins]

Bravo!

Do you know of any good sites that describe how to harness the power generated by a simple windmill or water wheel. I have been told that car batteries work to hold the power and that you need a regulator (from a car) and something from a motorcycle because it can spin faster without over heating. I forget the conversation that took place 30 years ago... I am ok but not great under a hood but able to learn if the info is basic enough. A lead would help.

[gaiatechnician]

@brendahodgins generally you end up spending a lot of money if you produce electricity from small head sources. And especially if you connect them into the grid. Also, you have a problem because you disrupt fish going up and down river.  I am a big fan of the gravitation vortex power plant because it is cheaper to maintain and it integrates a fish ladder into the turbine chamber.

I think wind powerered airlift pump combined with stop go pumped storage hydro is an option.

[hempseed57]

What about a bank of tubes that are fed from a central air supply? Like a bundle of spaghetti standing vertically.

[gaiatechnician]

@hempseed57 Yes, that could work. Maybe one tube feeding air down in the middle and 6 around it. Some pumps might be 2 stage, with different submergence in each stage.

We need to regulate the air into each tube. Another video that shows that even with just 2 tubes, once one starts the pressure is less and more of the air tends to go that way. Regulation could be as simple as accurately measured long pinholes letting just the right amount of air to each tube. Brian

[brendahodgins]

@gaiatechnician He also used it to pump his water to a big tank at his cabin and had gravity feed plumbing. He said you could do the same with a small windmill if you had no creek. His needs were few. He was a retired teacher living his dream.

[muddymuddymuddmann]

FAR OUT BRIAN, 18 FEET IS QUITE AN ACCOMPLISHMENT. GREAT JOB!

MUDDy

[armanflint]

I wonder if you could do it with carbonated water... Sort of like every once in a while you can drink a soda and create a siphon without having the straw be below the cup of liquid.

...That was pretty impressive pump height.