Zotloterer Gravitational Vortex Power Plant

Austrian engineer, Franz Zotlöterer, has constructed a low-head power plant that makes use of the kinetic energy inherent in an artificially induced vortex. The plant can be installed with a water drop as little as 0.7 meters.

The system is similar to one set forth by Viktor Schauberger, except that it has a dual purpose of aerating water, whereas Schauberger's design was optimized for generating electricity.

In Zotlöterer's system, the water's vortex energy is collected by a slow-moving, large-surface water wheel, making the power station transparent to fish. There are no large pressure differences built up, as happens in normal turbines. The cost of construction for such a plant is half that of a conventional hydroelectric installation of similar yield; and the environmental impact is positive, instead of negative.

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• viktor
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[THATW3IRDKID]

So it is using gravity to create a vortex so the vortex will spin a turbine? brilliant.

even more brilliant if they can loop the water and make it free energy.

[Odziz]

@THATW3IRDKID

It uses the flow of the water source and gravity. If you cascade these down a hill side that's a lot of hydro power.

Yes it is free energy, after the initial build.

Please don't confuse free energy with perpetual motion.

[MrAwsome514]

@Odziz It is not free energy. It is simply a different way to do hydroelectric power. It is drawing energy off of the motion of the water. If it runs out of water it will stop and it does not put out enough energy to move the water back up to the top faster then if falls through. So the only way to keep it running is to have it be fed by a lake or stream.

[Odziz]

@MrAwsome514

Obviously your definition of free energy is different from mine.

Please don't confuse free energy with perpetual motion.

[Xaxton2]

Is it perpetual energy?

[Odziz]

@Xaxton2

It is free energy, after the initial build.

Please don't confuse free energy with perpetual motion.

[ikonxp]

i almost fell into one of these as a kid =\

[TheSpikeystuff]

This is a great video

[MrAwsome514]

@DJMC5ive Na... it was just some little punk trying to makje himself feel superior to some one. Ofcourse he failed miserably.

[DJMC5ive]

-looking below- damn. some angry people here. -moves along-

[Indygoguy]

@MrAwsome514 why don't YOU grow the fuck up and stop thinking your posts are so brilliant that people are going to go back and read every single obnoxiously boring one you posted. The post I commented on was of you saying something incredibly juvenile and your response just confirms my assessment of you.

[MrAwsome514]

@Indygoguy In short... grow the fuck up and don't jump in to troll when you have not seen the entire conversation. It will only lead to you putting your foot in your mouth.

[MrAwsome514]

@Indygoguy Idiot... Don't jump into some one else's coversation with out knowing what the context of that conversation is. I do not believe overunity is possible nor do I believe perpetual motion is. Hell I often go on to the channels of those who claim to have produced such machines to expose them for the con artists they are... What I was trying to point out to the man is that there are still maintenance costs on this thing which can be quite expensive.

[Indygoguy]

@MrAwsome514 yes, it is a different way to do hydroelectric power. There is no such thing as perpetual motion and you know this because you realize that "looping" this system would not work. It seems you want to dismiss this machine because it does not realize your impossible fantasy. Grow up, nothing is free in this world. You only build a hydroelectric power plant where there is water traveling down hill. It costs money to build and maintain but the power source costs nothing.

[37zeus37]

350MW

[tech5353]

has anyone in these comments thought to add this to existing hydroelectric setups? It would make them more efficient probably.