Deep Water Nitro Piston Generator

[william_mills]

An Engineering Research Scientist told me this would work, and then refused to speak with me any more about it for fear of being assassinated....lol! It uses the pressure from extreme ocean depth to compress nitrogen filled pistons that are on a conveyor belt type system with ballasts that neutralize the intense weight of the system and also power the rotation of the belt.

Kinda hypothetical at this point, but take a look at my designs!!!! 

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[sm0ky2]

I like this, it poses an interesting problem.

Let's take this thing apart and look at each part of the cycle.
you have an object of mass x being lowered into the water.
there is a buoyancy effect from its displacement, lowering the effective weight as it sinks.
it gets to depth d, then has to be raised back to the surface.
in an ideal situation, you could harness the energy from gravity as it sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
then partially recycle this to raise the object back up.
so you have input and output and losses. ok

Now, internally, you have a cylinder full of nitrogen, that is compressed by the power of the ocean.
this lowers the displacement of the mass, making it slightly harder to lift back up, however....
you have stored the energy of the compressed nitrogen, in a readily usable form.

The question is, how much energy remains or is deficit between the drop-lift system, and the compressed nitrogen.
considering the change in displacement when the piston compresses, and the natural losses in the drop-lift system,
there seemingly could be a greater value of energy stored by the compression, than lost by lowering the displacement by the same volume.

[william_mills]

I guess I should specify that the piston and the ballast tank are separate systems and do not effect the functionality of each other at all. The purpose of the ballast tank is to manage the weight of the system on the "down" side and power the rotation of the belt in addition to managing the weight of the system on the "up" side.

The piston's only purpose is to compress the contained nitrogen, once compressed a locking mechanism holds it down, then when the piston makes it back to the surface and engages with the generator the lock is released and the piston is allowed to extend which transfers it's stored energy to the generator.

[william_mills]

Each piston has it's own independent ballast tank, which is NOT connected to any other ballast tank on any other piston.

[william_mills]

I've been rethinking the ballast system. I am redesigning the injector system to be a rotating device much like the generator.

By the time the piston gets to the bottom, the ballast tank will be equalized with the outside environment at which point the dump valve closes (possibly plugged when the piston rod gets pressed in far enough, or when the locking mechanism engages). The piston meets the injection system and sets into a  alignment groove on the rotating injector manifold.

What I need to figure out is........I would like to have a two part air injection process. If there is a solid line from the air compressor at the surface that runs down to the injection device at the bottom of the conveyor belt, would it be possible to have a separate environment in the system that is not influenced in any way by outside forces??

The ballast tank would have a water out valve and an air in valve,  and the injector head coupler and valves are perfectly seated achieving a leak free connection. As the water out valve is connected, most of the pressurized water would be relieved. As the air intake valve is connected the rest of the water is forced out as the tank is filled with air (i'm not even sure it would be necessary to pump the rest of the water out if enough pressure can be evacuated from the tank). If that would work then it wouldn't require such a huge air compressor to fill the ballast tanks and/or pump the water out of the purge line.

I hope I explained this properly, let me know if there are any more questions I can try to answer!!!!!