work?
ok it wont work! i see that now. :(
Nice idea ;)
Its possible that as it moves down the tube, and comes to the waters surface, it may stop but then again, there is more upward water pull than downward water resistance. If you suck water up a straw then quickly cover the top of that straw with your thumb or finger, it creates a suction and the water holds without falling out bottom of the open straw, the design you have posted acts in the same way but to keep the water down instead of up because the top area is air tight. However it seems as though the water will want to rise up the tube and level off...
Alex
exactly, this is what i realized. it seems the water will want to level itself and will rise in the tube.
im not giving up though! :)
peace.
Yea I'm just thinking, so the water will rise up the tube and at the same time the large area of the water will lower and the water line will level off. The reason the trapped air doesn't keep the water forced down in the tube is because as the large water level lowers it allows the air pressure in the tube to rise in effect the shifting of the air pressure between the two water levers is why it fails. If the air pressure didn't shift, then I would think that it would hold its position as you have drawn, that would mean that the air pressure would have to be the same as the water tries to fall...
Alex