Rope Lifts Water Without a Bucket

 

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                                 February 2, 1992

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                     From Popular Science, June 1951, page 77

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       The following article  piqued  our interest since we always look for

       low tech ways of achieving what  most  think  REQUIRES  the  use  of

       motors.  It is one of the fallacies of modern thought  that work can

       ONLY be accomplished by relatively complex devices.

       In most ways,  rotary  motion  is  more efficient, yet requires more

       complicated attachments.  So what  if the techinque of accomplishing

       takes a bit  more  energy,  it  uses  less parts and  is  much  more

       reliable as well as being ecologically safe.

       Note that rotary  motion  pumps  still  require impellers, seals and

       custom made chambers, while the following  technique requires only 3

       components, 1) motor, 2) rope, 3) pulley.

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                                 Rope Lifts Water

                                 Without a Bucket

       Now you can pump water with clothesline -

                          NO pipes, NO valves, NO buckets

       - just ordinary rope clothesline sent spinning around  pulleys  by a

       motor.  Two University  of Illinois professors are already doing it,

       raising 12 gallons a minute about  25 feet.  It's not a trick.  They

       foresee many uses for such a cheap, easy-to-rig pump.

       The clothesline just races down and up through the  water at 40 feet

       per second - the speed imparted by a 6-inch pulley at 1,750 r.p.m.

       As the rope  comes  up, friction makes a quarter-inch layer of water

       stick to it.  The water is thrown  off  into  a chute by centrifugal

       force when the rope speeds over the top pulley.

       The reason it  works is the same reason you'd have  trouble  running

       down an UP  escalator.  The water is always pouring down the upbound

       rope, but so long as the rope moves  up  faster than the water moves

       down, the rope wins and water is pumped.

       Actually, rope pumps  are  centuries  old.   Professors   Henry   L.

       Langhaar and William  M.  Owen  ran  across mention of one in an old

       book on hydraulics.  The author didn't think much of the idea, and

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       neither did the  professors.   But  they  tried  it  -  at  a  total

       expenditure of 98 cents for 100 feet  of  clothesline.   The  1/4 HP

       motor and pulleys were found in the laboratory.  (lying around, thus

       no special purchase)

       To their surprise, it worked amazingly well.  Some  water drops back

       through the rope holes, but this is a minor loss.  Since there seems

       to be NO  LIMIT TO THE HEIGHT of lift, they think it could do almost

       any job, such as raising water for livestock.

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       Vangard Note...

           An excellent way of thinking of  this  is that of a Van De Graff

           machine.  If  you  are  familiar  with  this  device,  you  will

           instantly find   the   analogy   helpful.   For  those  who  are

           unfamiliar with  the operation  of  a  Van  De  Graff,  a  short

           description follows :

                Van De Graff Electrostatic Generators use  a  motor, a belt

                with the  ability  to  hold electrostatic charges, a pulley

                and an accumulator.

                The motor  spins at a high  rate  of  speed  to  cause  the

                charged belt to move through a column and  throw  off loose

                static charges.   These  charges  are  centrifugally thrown

                into the inside of an accumulator  which  allows the charge

                to build up on the outside surface.

           This principle  is  the same as the Rope Pump,  though  using  a

           different form of energy.

           In the    accumulation/replenishment   of   energy   (water   or

           electricity), the  primary   question   is   HOW   MUCH  can  be

           accumulated/replenished and over WHAT TIME FRAME?

           Modern times  emphasizes rushing around and the  hurry-up  idea.

           As a  result,  we  think everything should happen instantly.  We

           can attribute  this  partly to  the  many  interests  of  modern

           society and events which constantly draw ones' attention.  Thus,

           we try to cram whatever we can into our available time.

           When times were slower, accumulation of energy  over  long  time

           periods was accepted as the normal course of things.  The actual

           use of  the  accumulated  energy  is  over  a  relatively  short

           duration so the buildup can again resume to the maximum level of

           the storage chamber.

           This simple idea applies to electricity,  magnetism,  gas, fluid

           or any other form of matter/energy and is really  determined  by

           the method  of storage.  Indeed, in a plenum of matter or energy

           the challenge  is  to  come up  with  a  means  of  storing  the

           abundance of   matter/energy   into   higher  potentials   (i.e.

           PUMPING.)

           Of course, this also could be applied to creating a lower energy

           potential which  would  draw from the surrounding environment to

           create a well of negativity.   In seeking equilibrium, either of

           these flows can be made to do work.

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           So, for immediate concerns we should consider ways of optimizing

           the rope transfer rate.

              1)  A  spongy  texture  would  allow  more  absorption  and a

                  squeegee device  attached  at  the  dumping  stage  would

                  greatly increase the transfer.

              2)  A  polarized material with small cups parallel  with  the

                  length of  the  rope  and  all  facing the same direction

                  would also increase the transfer.

              3)  Multiple ropes to increase the flow.

           The interesting thing about simple  files  like this one is that

           it enables  one  to  appreciate and understand  simple  concepts

           which easily  apply  to  all  the  complexities  of free energy,

           levitation, etc...

           When you consider Zero Point  Energy  and  how to "milk" it from

           the surrounding energy environment, you realize  that since work

           is derived  from tapping into a difference in potential AND that

           the energy environment is relatively  constant,  then  you  must

           create a  "well"  of  high or low energy density  of  a  greater

           accumulated magnitude  than  formal  ZPE  as occurs on the micro

           levels.

           Since formal ZPE involves the  jitter effect from an essentially

           infinite number  of micro energy fluctuations  in  random  (ha!)

           patterns, then a large scale Jitter might be artifically created

           to be tapped for useable "coherent/DC" energy.

           Yes, I  know, this appears to be off the topic of the paper, but

           in truth it is not.  The idea  is  applicable across wide areas.

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