Gigantic drinking birds

[FreeEnergy]

Humbugger could you please draw a picture so we can have a better idea.

also i like to build this right away and need off the shelf parts.

i was thinking of using one of those long neck 5 gallon bottle for the head and bottom, but i can't seem to find a nice fitting pipe. will fish tank glue work good for the sealing of the pipe? should i use different materials instead? should the pipe be plastic/metal/etc?

i also plan on using the flywheel idea, possibly a geared bicycle wheel?or something else? once i got a working bird then i can "close the loop" like the above picture by making the bird sealed.

"also I've read somewhere that if you paint the bird's bottom black and the head silver it will work even better too"
- should the head be silver or white? also heard white works better.



---> VIDEO OF DRINKING BIRD http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=mIjXg5fvvas

[hartiberlin]

Not a bad idea to build bigger drinking birds.
Maybe one of you guys can offer a kit, that would really be super sales item, if it is not too expensive and it will work 24/7.
Just give it every day a bit of new water and you can charge up your batteries 24/7 all day long ! Sell something like this for 200 to 300 bucks and manyvpeople would buy this, as it also  looks cool... So who is going to be the first, who is offering such a kit at this prize level ?

[lltfdaniel1]

100-200 usd sounds reasonable as long as it produces reasonable power over time.

[d3adp00l]

If it produced enough to run a 25watt lamp all the time it would prove the concept. anyone ever notice that something is really hard until one person does it then all the sudden as if an invisible barrier is broken everyone can then do it.

[FreeEnergy]

if you make the ceiling high enough i don't think you will be needing to add water to the system. should be self sustaining






peace