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This is a method for getting water out of the ground, but with no
moving parts -- no axle. Instead this iron tube is a thin vertical
screw
at one end and a thick wide coil at the other, with a rifled inside
chamber, but tapered into a vortex. Resonance with environmental
vibrations will ensure
that this Screw becomes a permanent
fountain,
pumping water out if the ground via resonance.
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I'm getting a bad vibe about the physics here. |
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The vibration of the whole device brings the water
once
around the rifled thread inside the tube for each
period,
driving it up hill. The would eventually stop vibrating
if it
wasn't for the tapered nature of the spring which
amplifies
small resonances. Most of the small resonances would
be related to the wind for the first few iterations, but
once tuned, this device could be picking up periodic
frequencies from the ground and from the
electromagnetic field. |
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You could attach feathers to the side of the pipe and
the vibration would allow them to give flapping
support. |
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Okay, I've been avoiding asking but what is it with you and feathers? |
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I take tar and feathers and make a rapture out of it. |
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Feathers are like a 3 dimensional screw because of their
s-shaped cross section and the spiral of the quill. No
matter which way you wing them around, their push gets
averaged out to be either against or with the screw and
can be directed. |
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S shaped cross section? Oh I have some searching to do |
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kind of like a 3D S. Its funny, I cant find any good pictures
online. But if you look at a feather its kind of down
curved at the front edge and up curved at the back edge,
so when your are scooping forward the feather catches as
much air as possible and on the back stroke the back edge
flips over and is a scoop in the other direction. It seems to
me you could make giant s-shaped artificial feathers out
of carbon fiber or another strong material. |
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It's called a "catastrophe" curve; a cubic with three real roots, projected back along the z-axis to a straight line. |
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The two solutions for the points of inflexion represent the transition points between the outer surfaces of the manifold. The central region between the points is inaccessible. WKTE. |
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I'm afraid I still don't understand how this thing is supposed
to drive water uphill. Water is a pretty good damper of
vibration. Vibration is a pretty lousy method of transport. |
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Upsides: economical, elegant, environmentally friendly, energy efficient, easy to maintain. |
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The really annoying bit will be one of the JHC's ideas will be profitable...leaving us HB-ers living on 1 potato a day or something. |
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Well... dang.
If a resonant chamber could be made to induce Chladni patterns on the surface of a small pool of water, could globules of water not be made to break way from the pattern to be split over and over against geometric shapes built into the sides into ever smaller droplets as they climb the walls of a frequency-increasing diameter-shrinking spiral tower? |
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Made for a cool visual anyway. (+) |
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// I'm afraid I still don't understand how this thing is
supposed to drive water uphill.// |
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I don't claim the ability to decipher Our Lord and Savior's
idea, but if you visualize a staircase with a slight lean back,
then visualize the whole thing attached to a rotating cam
water could be 'thrown' from each step onto the one above it
in succession that would work. |
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