capillair pump

[drspark]

Creativity, group,

Creativity I decided to post my reply to you here also...

Funny it hasn't been a week since a wondered about refilling that
and restarting it.

1st thing. The enclosure MUST be airtight sealed...
Another person tried and tried to make it work open, evaporation was
a problem

I did not understand his setup until after he was totally discouraged.

I could not get mine to drip. BUT a droplet would form at the bottom of the
wick and hang there. My cap-tube was not tiny enough to raise the alcohol
far enough, for the alcohol on the wick to become heavy enough, to break the
surface tension. What i did was raise the lower surface until the droplet as
it was forming contacted it and it oscillated like that for years. Sitting on a
window sill and the disturbance was reflected on the wall or ceiling.

The droplet would form, grow, make contact drain away repeat...

DrSpark

[carsten888]

BUT a droplet would form at the bottom of the
wick and hang there. My cap-tube was not tiny enough to raise the alcohol
far enough, for the alcohol on the wick to become heavy enough, to break the
surface tension. What i did was raise the lower surface until the droplet as
it was forming contacted it and it oscillated like that for years.

brilliant! If that would be scaled up, maybe with the tiny wave the drop makes we could have wave-energy. It is not a lot, but it would be a true free energy machine.