Buoyancy Engine idea

(This video uses captions). Stringed buoyant spheres rise inside a water filled capillary tube, while those outside the tube fall due to gravity. At the top, each sphere gets pulled over the edge by those falling; at the bottom, each sphere gets pulled under water and back inside the tube by those rising. The cycle can generate work, for example, moving a turbine.

The height of the capillary action can be increased by lowering atmospheric pressure, by removing air from the container, for example.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• water engine
• capillary tube
• capillary action
• perpetual motion
• free energy
• over unity
• overunity
• buoyancy
• gravity
• perpetuum

[2515564]

А вот это проект мне нравится) Я думаю что он вполне реален) Можно добавить в конструкцию 2 ролика, сверку и снизу, чтобы точнее направлять шарики в трубу. Я так понимаю что шарики будут плотно прилегать к стенкам трубы?

[adanieltorres]

@2515564 "And here is a project I like) I think it's quite possible) may be added in the construction of two rollers, and a reconciliation from the bottom, to better guide the balls into the pipe. I understand that the balls will fit snugly to the walls of the tube?" Thank you. I agree that two rollers would help; they could also replace the turbine. The balls would have to let some water by as they go up.

[wyrrox]

Wouldn't it be easier if the there are two turbines on at the points where the balls go over and under the cylinder?

[adanieltorres]

@wyrrox Well, the turbine in the video is just an example/symbolic that energy can be obtained from the motion of the stringed beads. The model depicted clearly improves by adding pulleys, mentioned in earlier comments, at those points at the top and bottom, reducing friction and snagging. You are absolutiely right that making those very pulleys the turbines would seem the most efficient. But before getting into optimization, I'd like to see a proof/disproof of concept... :)

[thesourceofx]

@efrow I have to disagree with you about the usefulness of these types of thought experiments. The fact is that there is no proof that perpetual motion is impossible. These types of mental gymnastics help keep us on our game and expand our perceptions. People lose their ability to think divergently the more they learn about traditional methods, but most of scientific advancement, depending on how you look at it, relies on people being good at divergent thinking. That is what this exercises.

[adanieltorres]

@efrow Note that the video is one from a channel called "Thought Experiments". And realize that I'm not claiming to break any laws of physics but to help keep physics alertness. Trying to brush the experiment aside with poor or simplistic explanations speaks more to mental laziness than to the uselessness of the experiment. If not, what is the purpose of having pendulums, or miniature sterling engines, on desks?

[efrow]

@adanieltorres frankly, I dont know what is the purpose of this thought experiment. if it is merely a brain gymnastics, then it is a another good way of showing it is not possible to get energy from nowhere. but if u sincerely believe that through certain manipulations u will be able to get energy from thin air, then it is useless.

all engines are machines to convert one kind energy to another. car engines convert fuels chemical energy to mechanical...

[adanieltorres]

@efrow I hope you are not using "physics" as the basis for dissuading me from having thought experiments to help understand physics... :) Your "explanation" for instance fails to account for the fact that the same object can freefall when above water, and float upwards when under water. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that you're not explaining the "physics". In other words, show your work.

[adanieltorres]

@efrow So, inside a capillary tube, there is no up or down for an object less dense than water? If that is true, it may render this thought experiment pointless, but it seems to be a very interesting property in its own right for other thought experiments...

[efrow]

@adanieltorres weight of spheres outside= that of inside. static equilibrium. for this reason there is physics, not to bullshit urself