How much power output is needed to be feasible?

[nwman]

I'm not sure if this is the best category to ask this question but here it goes. I have a design for a generator that I know works, and know exactly how much power it will produce given its size. And no its not along the same lines of thought as most of the designs in this category. It does use gravity but in a more conventional way. I just need help figuring out how big it would have to be. I'm just not familiar with how much power it needs to produce to be feasible. The small design of it will make about 40,000J a day. It increases equality proportionate to its size. So how many time bigger does it need to be to equal, for example, a large damn? Or how much would be needed to power a state or the whole U.S for a day?

Tim

[greendoor]

Don't be a jackass.

If you can produce a running free energy device that that outputs 1 kilowatt - you are a freaking genius and you should become rich beyond your wildest dreams.

Or get shot in the back by some oil company spook. 

Serious.

But apart from that - don't be a jackass.

[ramset]

AMEN  CHET

[fritznien]

if you have something it is making 11 watts of power.  it just needs to be 100 million times bigger to replace one nuke plant.

[nwman]

Hey, thanks for the support "all!"

I didn't say it was the typical "free" energy setup like most of the other ideas in this category. I have a few simple technical design ideas that make it unique but the basic principle is using the ocean tides. 1 cubic meter of water equal 1000Kg of weight. If you drop that 2 meters  and lift it back up 2 meters once a day (really it would be twice most days) then the math would work like this "I think".

1000Kg x 2m(down) = 2000Kgm

2000Kgm x 10 N = 20,000N

20,000N = 20,000J

20,000 x 2m (up) = 40,000J

40,000J =  11.11 Watthours

It might cost billions of dollars but I believe most damns pay themselves off in the first few years. Also, where I live it averages 6+ feet up and down a day and in Alaska some places have 50ft tides twice a day.

Tim

Fritznien, so it would really have to be 100 million cubic meters of tidal water movement needed to equal a Nuclear power plant?