Why wouldn't this work?
Why wouldn't this work?
Christian Morgan
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Jose Sullivan
Because the pump needs more energy than the wheel can generate, retard.
Jason Thompson
The water wheel can't generate enough energy to run the pump.
Adam Jenkins
trips of truth
Landon Gray
but how do you know that? have you ever tried it?
Blake Barnes
Technically if you could create a pond deep enough, in a vacuum, to create enough pressure, the water could flow up the pipe itself...but I would need to do the maths...
Asher Gray
true this has never been tried and there's no way to know if we don't try
Gabriel Sanders
Have you ever had a crank flashlight?
Eli Sanchez
That's essentially sticking a straw tall enough to reach space in the ocean.
Colton Wright
don't be a retard
a non-zero amount of energy is lost from friction against the sides of the tube, friction against the wheel's axle, plus the fact that the wheel wouldn't capture 100% of the water.
if you lose any energy anywhere, you're fucked and your pump stops working
plz don't be retard
Josiah Adams
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Josiah Anderson
Why not put it where there is a stream already
OMG such awesome
many good
Oliver Thompson
Even if the water wheel is 100% efficient and the pipe frictionless, you still lose energy in the operation of the pump which produces heat.
Zachary Morris
what if we lube the inside of the pipe before doing it?
Dominic Kelly
lube =/= 0 friction
Andrew Diaz
And if we take a lot of lube?
Ethan Taylor
The water would cool the pump, you dumb fuck
Charles Gonzalez
Law of diminishing returns
Asher Mitchell
This is a good thread.
Nicholas Campbell
The technical term is "over unity"
But add and additional generator on the drain.
Ryan Powell
Why not just use a natural waterfall?
Anthony Roberts
because you would have to have a 1 - 1 energy conversion ratio, and even then its just going to be there, no infinite power
Nolan White
That's what your mom said.
Jordan Ortiz
She really wanted it. What can I say?
Brayden Diaz
The mechanical effort to lift the water up is greater than the energy generated by the water turning the turbine. A better design is two ponds one above the other. Solar panels pump water up in the day with the excess diverted to the grid and the turbine runs at night giving out free electric. Only for the same to happen the next day. Sort of like a water based energy battery.
Thomas White
what if you had multiple waterfalls? the top one flows down has multiple water wheels then falls into another resovar of water and continues the cycle? with waterwheels in the pipe to recapture energy from the moving water in the pipe
Brandon Hughes
I get the idea you're being serious. If so.
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