Would this work

profitius

I thought of this before but have just decided to ask the question if it would work after seeing some similar question asked.

Its way of using water and gravity to get "free" energy.

So basically you put a massive pipe down into the sea or any big hole with water in it. The pressure is greater the further down you go and the water in the pipe would also take some force to push up. But, if the pipe was wider at the bottom there would be more force coming up to the top so pushing more water up.

There would be a number of ways to tap into that energy from placing an old fashioned water wheel to catch the falling water or putting some sort of turbine in the pipe that the moving water moves.

Its probably already been thought of but I'm still curious about hearing if it would/has work. Cheers.

Professor_Fink

No, it won't work. The forces exactly cancel out. Simply stick an inverted funnel in water. You'll see water doesn't come cascading out the top.

Fluffybums

Water + Gravity = HydroElectric power.

Mahatma coat

Professor_Fink wrote: »

No, it won't work. The forces exactly cancel out. Simply stick an inverted funnel in water. You'll see water doesn't come cascading out the top.

Ah But,what if you seal the top and then pull it up out of the water, wont atmospheric pressure shove the water up to about 9-10 M giving you your required height for hydro electric

Mucco

No, it wouldn't work. But don't let that stop you taking out a full page as in the Economist

profitius

I'll just have to work on my anti gravity device so!

fabbydabby

Yea guy, the width of the pipe has no bearing on the hydrostatic pressure.

That is calculated using P = Rgh

R (Rho) is the water density
g is gravity
h is the height of the column of water (i.e. depth)

Mahatma coat

profitius wrote: »

I'll just have to work on my anti gravity device so!

Oh I'm Very Anti Gravity meself

No time for it at all

Always bringin me down