Posted by Bob Harris Jr. (12.219.241.134) on April 18, 2002 at 16:11:26:
In Reply to: Re: gravity wheels posted by Davis Landstrom on January 14, 2002 at 10:13:15:
It seems to me that there has not been enough orginal thought
connected with this device, so I have a few insights to help in
provoking some. What if you took 2 wheels and connected them with
a convaier belt type setup. using this for a basic setup, we now
add a valve to close off the larger line between tanks forceing
the gas through a smaller line, hooked to an array of small jets
to cool the upper tank, as you would in an air conditioner. This
would tend to cause a suction action for a more rapid movement of
the liquid used. At a cetain difference in pressure the valve on
the larger line would open, causeing a rapid filling of the upper
tank.
We need one side of our POWER TOWER to be say at least 1/3
heaver than the other in relation to the axels, so we design it
accordingly, with a hydrolic transmition to limit the R.P.M.'s of
the POWER TOWER. With very little thought, we could design such a
tower to be built inside a building, say with 2 elevador shafts.
This lets us use waste heat from the Air Handlers to drive the
POWER TOWER, and produce Electricity. If we also couple some of
the newer solar water heater designs with the system, we could
have what amounts to free electricity!
If in our design, we also have a 3 chamber system in use, then
we could have a more efficent exchange of gas/liquid from one side
of the tower to the other, by leaving the lower wheel almost com-
pleatly submearged in our heating soloution, be it water, or say
a light oil. This in effect leaves one side almost empty, while
the other side is nearly full of the liquid we use to drive the
Wheels... just a few thoughts. Now lets see some math on transfer
rates, and a few things on how to adapt this to work in say the
American South West. There is Much more solar energy going to
waste there than anywhere else I know of.