Evaporation Driven Self-Sustaining System

[gravityblock]

One pound of dry spores and moisture can lift a car 1 meter off the ground.  These spores expand with a remarkable force that is 1000 times stronger than a human muscle with just a little bit of moisture evaporating off a surface. 

Reference:  Bacterial Spores Harness Evaporation Energy

Gravock

[Nink]

Columbia University is calling the moisture mill a form of Renewable Energy based on evaporation and I would have to agree with them on this.  Also, nobody is spraying mist on one side of the wheel as you have falsely asserted, once again.

Gravock

I have no issues correcting school children.  This is not renewable energy unless the assumption is it only works when it rains.

Mist  https://youtu.be/Vj2kuZm-aCA?t=218

[gravityblock]

I have no issues correcting school children.  This is not renewable energy unless the assumption is it only works when it rains.

Mist  https://youtu.be/Vj2kuZm-aCA?t=218

Evaporation is happening all over the planet at all times!  This will work even when it's not raining, unlike wind or solar.  I think nearly everyone here will agree that this is a form of renewable energy and has a much greater potential than solar, wind, etc.

A person isn't spraying mist on one side of the wheel to make the spores heavier as you continue to falsely assert!   What you're seeing in the video is a reservoir being filled with water at the top and center of the wheel (see image below), which supplies the spores with humidity as the wheel rotates.   

Gravock

[Nink]

As I originally stated the energy to get the water to the top of the container is 10 x actual energy created.  You have a water wheel and nothing more.

[citfta]

As I originally stated the energy to get the water to the top of the container is 10 x actual energy created.  You have a water wheel and nothing more.

I think you will have a hard time proving that statement.  You don't know how much water is in the top container.  You don't know how long it will last and you don't know how much torque is being produced.  You are making a lot of remarks about something based only on your apparent dislike of this device.  Deciding the merits of something you only know a little about is not a sign of logical thinking.

I don't have any idea if this will ever be a useful device or not.  But I won't make my decision based on my emotions.  If a device interests me enough I will do  the research on it and then decide if I like the idea or not.

Carroll