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Robert Boyle flask perpetual motion machine
Ok brainiacs, so I confess that I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box, but it doesn't make sense to me that this concept WON'T work. It sure should if you have all of the weight and pressure of the water in the glass pushing on the little bit of water in the tube.
So, have purchased a 2" to 3/4" adapter for my IBC tote to connect a washing machine hose (garden hose) to a small pump with a shaft intended to be driven with a hand drill. The hand-drill-driven pump has male GHT (garden hose thread) input & output. I'll attach another washing machine hose to the other side of the pump and feed it back into the top of my IBC tote. If it works I'll put a pulley on the pump and see what I can generate.
What's your best guess? Will this work?
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Robert Boyle flask perpetual motion machine
This thread was sort of a joke but I believe that where there is a will there is a way--and I'm not talking about pursuing the impossible. I'll betcha a slight modification like stacking two totes to increase pressure, but attaching the return water line to the bottom tote, for example, would get closer to an acceptable solution even though it would present new issues. I'm looking for response from a unique group of folks who don't think like society's status quo yuppie. There are many ways to get off the grid and many heads are better than one. Don't be afraid to speak up if you've got an idea. Share a link. Ask a question. We are very different nuts here--we take risks, admit we've made some whopper mistakes, and have taken big risks to accomplish great things. Call me crazy but give me some suggestions! :-)