-----Forwarded Message----- From: Jerry Volland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Oct 29, 2005 10:03 PM To: Bob Paddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Keelynet] Bobbing buoys to generate electricity
Back in the 70's, the Hippie alternative lifestyle magazine, Mother Earth News, was pushing something called a hydraulic ram. This device used a pipe in a moving river, stream, or creak to pump water up to 200 feet above the water level. It seems the pipe terminated in a much smaller pipe which used a spring loaded ball bearing to prevent back flow, with some kind of pressure wave resonance in the larger pipe overcoming the spring. The flow rate was small, but I've always thought there should be some way to extract electricity from the fall back. Now we know how. -JV -----Original Message----- From: Bob Paddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Oct 29, 2005 6:45 AM To: interact <interact@listserv.capital-master.com> Subject: Re: [Keelynet] Bobbing buoys to generate electricity On Wednesday 26 October 2005 02:16 am, Jerry Decker - KN wrote: > Hola Folks! > > I LOVE THIS DESIGN! It is so simple and claims to produce large > quantities of energy just from the bobbing motion of waves. > http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_050518.html > 09/04/05 - Buoy Power from wave motion Your message on "force multiplying engine" just gave me a brain storm for a home implementation of Buoy Power from Wave Motion. Power here is usual reliable except when it rains, say during a hurricane. Something I am going to try Real Soon Now is divert a Roof Down Spout into a 4" drain pipe. At the bottom of the pipe there is a standard 1.5" Check Valve put together backwards, it opens when pulled, rather than the normal opening of being pushed from the water pressure. A float such as Styrofoam tube, maybe a water filter cartridge since it has a hole through the length of it, rides up/down a smaller .5" or .75" pipe centered in the the larger pipe. A rod/wire/string/something is attached to the float. The rising water pushes up the float which pulls the rod that causes the backwards check valve to open. The float falls down as the water drains from the pipe due to the open valve, the cycle repeats. Attach some magnets to the float, and wrap some wire around the outside of the pipe. You now have a water (rain) powered reciprocating generator! If you have a flow of water you can use a Amish Clack Pump to fill the pipe when the Sun is out. See my web site for info on those. http://www.keelynet.com/share.htm "Donations can be sent directly to the inventors chosen address" Do anything you want with this idea, except saying you came up with it, and send me a small percentage of the profits when you go into production. :-) "We, the Willing; Lead by the Unknowing; Are doing the impossible for the Ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little. We are now qualified to do anything, with nothing, forever." - Preface to Murphy's Laws. Now how do we make this idea even better? -- http://www.softwaresafety.net/ http://www.unusualresearch.com/ http://www.bpaddock.com/ http://www.designer-iii.com/ ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com
