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You know those little Bobbing toy birds that once you start them, they just keep Bobbing for a drink of water for a long long time? Remember those?
Why not build them on a huge scale with an electric generator in the side to harness the power generated by the bobbing motion?
Imagine a entire
Bobbing Bird Farm out in the desert somewhere, maybe where they use to explode nukes northwest of Las Vegas. What a sight it would be ... 400 foot tall contraptions bobbing away producing power at nearly no cost, day or night and with or without wind.
See the Link below for an example of a Drinking Bird Toy.
Bobber
http://yque.com/a197.html
Bobber Bird [Zorcon, Oct 21 2004]
A conversion to Solar Power for the Bobber
http://www.scitoys....olar_bird/bird.html
A simple solar powered heat engine [Zorcon, Oct 21 2004]
Place in US to order one (or Two) Birds
http://scientificso....asp_Q_pn_E_3053617
I bought two [Zorcon, Oct 21 2004]
(?) A development project
http://www.geocitie...ri3/projreport.html
A guy who made a larger one and wants to develop it. [Zorcon, Oct 21 2004]
Another Good Description
http://www.gi.alask...Forum/ASF8/854.html
How it works explained pretty well. [Zorcon, Oct 21 2004]
(?) Buy one here and be PART OF HISTORY !!!!!!
http://www.butlerla...om/drinkingbird.htm
They plan to build a really big one ... why not? [Zorcon, Oct 21 2004]
The Orginal Patent on the Toy
http://l2.espacenet...D=US+++2402463A1+I+
See the Original Drawing [Zorcon, Oct 21 2004]
Drinking Bird is a Movie Star
http://www.slipups.com/items/11797.html
His big debut on the big screen [Zorcon, Oct 21 2004]
(??) Mini Drinking Bird to Purchase
http://www.biffleys...inidrinkingbird.htm
Smaller Version [Zorcon, Oct 21 2004]
(?) Another Cool Device ... The Levitron
http://www.innovato...&Category_Code=Levi
I wonder if you could combine this with the Drinking Bird to create an even more amazing Perpetual Motion Gizmo! [Zorcon, Oct 21 2004]
(??) Giant drinking birds
http://www.drinkingbirds.com/
Worlds largest working drinking birds, 6'8"tall, 3 years in the making! [drinkingbirdman, Oct 21 2004]
6½ foot drinking bird
http://www.youtube....watch?v=gZ-zeRCUicw
[FlyingToaster, Jun 17 2013]
7 foot bird to pump water from Nile, 1967
http://www.google.c...tents/US20030218852
Background notes 0002 and 0003 [4and20, Jun 18 2013]
[link]
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Dang - beaten to the punch by minutes - I swear I was gonna do this idea today, too. ++ Good
Link checked: Hey, I used to fun-gift shop at yque! It was a 2 or 3 minute walk from where I lived prior to this shack. They still refuse to part with the vintage T'seed Electric Service Calendar behind the register. (The T'seed of unwanted notoriety was the man who James Dean plowed into- incidentally, Mr. T'seed passed away in July of 1995 - a very nice man who hated the notoriety to his dying day) |
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'Y que' is spanish for... 'and what', most commonly used in the form of a question. In the Guajira Peninsula of northern South America, near the city of Riohacha, Colombia, there is a tribe of Indians that the Spainards thought might not be worth the trouble on conquering, the Guajiro Indians.
"Yo soy Guaijro, y que?" Colombian folklore has it that this is their typical greeting for stangers.
(I am Guajiro, and what?) |
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I'm am sure the Bobbing Bird has stired a lot of imaginations through the years. I bet a lot of great ideas have been generated by this thing. |
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Wouldn't the friction involved in drawing energy from this bring it to a stop? |
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Looks like that guy Vik Rantsuri baked it. |
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I can't help but think of the Simpsons episode where Homer used one of these to control the Nuclear Reactor. |
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Without stretching your visual imagination too hard, it's not difficult to compare [Zorcon]'s Giant Drinking Birds producing kinetic electrical power to the Giant Drinking Birds which have been pumping oil to produce power in the US since 1910 from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Los Angeles, California.(link) If you wanted to convert those existing structures from oil production to some form of solar energy production, that might be a new idea, especially since most examples of that particular kind of derrick seem to be sited on treeless sun-baked grounds. In the meantime, it just seems like an inefficient means of exploiting a children's toy. |
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It seems not enough people bought the butterlabs
dream... The link is dead. |
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And so is the link for
drinkingbirds (currently has a girl as a decoy for the
drinking bird...) |
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And so are most of them. It seems drinking birds
don't continue moving forever :-( |
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The power generated by the drinking bird should be used to run a water pump that refills the cup from which the bird is drinking. |
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The Holy Writ of Physics is clear: Perpetual Motion shalt
not be Possible. |
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[swimswim], I brand thee: Blasphemer! |
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The image alone is worth a [+]. Who care if it works? |
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What do you mean perpetual motion? It's just a heat engine that uses evaporating water to keep the cold side of the engine cool. As long as the well isn't too deep, there could be enough energy produced for pumping. Now if you tried to use the energy produced to run a device to extract water from the air, that would be perpetual motion. |
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[+] and currently working youtube link. |
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// The power generated by the drinking bird should be
used to run a water pump that refills the cup from which
the bird is drinking. // |
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Assuming that the author's intent was that the recycling
pump be the only source of water for refilling the cup
(heavily implied through omission of alternative sources),
this
is a description of a perpetual motion machine and
therefore eet eez ztreektly verboten!!! |
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'snot perpetual motion: it's driven by evaporation of the water off the beak, or something like that. |
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I agree. Using the bird to run a condenser to fill the cup would be naughty. |
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It only sounds like perpetual motion because it omits the trifling details about the attached series of interconnected flywheels, billiard balls and mildly slanting ramps that keeps the thing moving. |
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Ah. Well, I suppose that's acceptable. Welcome to your
stay of execution, heretic. |
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Methyl chloride is the fluid used in the drinking bird. It may be used in a type of Stirling engine or Rankin Cycle engine. Where the fluid boils, expanded and does work. It may not necessary be in the form of a drinking bird and may be well suited for energy conversion in solar ponds and OCTC. |
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