A machine to convert gravity to mechanical energy # 2

[brian334]

Dear Hans,
The piston has a lock.
Hans, at my website bsandler.com the is a description of a machine.
Maybe you should go read it.

[mondrasek]

Brian,

I'm trying to follow the progress of one cylinder all the way around the "loop".  I'll start at the bottom, where the cylinder has no velocity, but is now boyant since it has expanded and is filled with air.  I'll call this cylinder #0.  So it starts at zero velocity and begins to accelerate upwards.  But the cylinder above it (let's call it #1) has already accelerated to a velocity greater than zero and is continuing to accelerate.  So cylinder #0 will never catch cylinder #1.  In fact, the gap between them will increase on the way up.

Likewise, the gap between cylinders will increase on the way down when they are heavier than the water they displace, right?

Maybe it is the diagrams with all the cylinders in a row, end to end, that is confusing me. 

Shouldn't this work with just one cylinder (without the added efficiency of the reduced drag, due to "drafting" as it were, with the continuous loop of cylinders)?

M.

[mondrasek]

Brian,

I'm also wondering about how the air will flow down into the expanding cylinders at the bottom.  The water pressure at the bottom must be many times greater than the pressure at the top of the loop or top of the water the entire system is in.  So the air must have to compress as it goes down the tube and into the expanding cylinder, right?

M.

[brian334]

Mondrasek,
The acceleration of cylinder # 1 is restricted by the load. The acceleration of cylinder # 0 is unrestricted. Cylinder # 0 would quickly catch up to cylinder # 1.
On the way down the cylinders could be hooked together.
The answer to the last part of your question is yes, but it would work better when the tanks fall in a continuous column.

[mondrasek]

Brian,

What is the "load" on cylinder #1 that is restricting it and not cylinder #0?

If the cylinders on the way down are all hooked together how will they accelerate?  They must move at a contstant velocity then?

M.