Trompe !!!!!

[Madeo]

Thanks for looking that up Spirit.


I think those designs are wrong in my opinion.  They are closed loop and doesn't make any sense.  I'm not sure if that's an honest mistake or deliberate. From the sources I have originally posted,  It clearly show or mentioned that there is an input and output pipe where the input is higher than the output. This allows gravity to push the water out on it's own without using external energy or the compressed air.


I read somewhere that the longest trompe ever built ran for 40 years without maintenance.  That's impressive !!

[Floor]

@spirit

Qute from Spirit  "I think this is what this guy is trying to do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv1lQA-tnwo"

I doesn't appear to me that's what he is after,  just higher pressure, while still being able to use
he water after the trompe.

            cheers

[Low-Q]

I've not seen this before. I think it's worth exploring.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9NqqDL6bkk

http://www.motherearthnews.com/renewable-energy/hydro-power-zmaz77jazbon.aspx


http://awramedia.org/mainblog/2012/07/23/russell-redux-microbubbles-water-conservation-climate-change-vive-la-trompe/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I85esMMoRa4




I'm just pasting all the information I can find out about it, but there aren't much around even on google.

This is interesting stuff. You need an open system with downstream of water to make this work.
The compressed air in the underground reservoir is at the mercy of the amount of bubbles being dragged down by the water. You can achieve high pressurized air, but if you use it to power anything, the pressure is only maintained by the amount of bubbles dragged into the reservoir. So the work done by any device that is powered by air pressure, will run down fast if the air requirements are higher than the air that is available from the bubbles.
And no, you cannot close this system into a perpetual machine or over unity machine. It needs constant supply of water from a level higher than the output. Normally the sun which is vaporizing water from the sea and return the water as rain into the mountains will maintain the downstrem of water through this trompe.


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[Madeo]

Yes,  It's not an overunity device.  It is, however, a clean renewable energy that has the following benefits:


1. Not as destructive as hydroelectric dams (much smaller footprint)
2. Enrich the water with oxygen and cleans it (to certain degree) which is beneficial to life
3. No maintenance required. Trompe built in Canada ran 40 years without maintenance.
4. Multiple trompes can be built on the same water source while dams can only be built once.


I haven't seen any cons of this ancient technology yet that I have managed to read,  but then again the information about it is fairly limited. I'd like to keep this idea in my toolbox. I believe this is worth considering as an alternative energy source than the current systems we have.

[Low-Q]

It should be easy to build a miniature trompe - just to measure the potential it has in energy capacity. When I think about it, the energy output would be little less than the potential energy in the water mass (Taking into consideration all the bubbles that makes the total density much less than pure water, hence the lighter weight of the water column) that flows down the pipe into the reservoir of air. We would need a huge trompe if it should provide energy for households.


Very interesting anyways. No moving parts :-)



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