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High altitude weather balloons are inflated with helium on
the
ground and carry vaccum canisters on strings. The balloons
reach the lennuf* of the suborbital near-space blimp station
where they slip
through a yielding sphincter into the massive blimp
envelope
where they continue expanding
until they burst. The
sphincter
closes around the strings and snips them each time. At any
one time the blimp may contain dozens of weather balloon
bubbles nudging past eachother until they burst. The
envelope of
the blimp is constructed of bellows folds that expand and
contract generating electric power with many thousands
reverse solenoid piston reciprocators. An air pump
constantly
runs filling the helium canisters with excess helium
constantly
maintaining median pressure in the envelope. The canisters
drop to Earth's surface where they are used to refill the
constant supply of balloons.
* reverse funnel
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[normzone, Apr 26 2013]
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funnily enough the tagline as i read this idea was: "Not from concentrate"... |
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You're assuming the energy needed to recompress the helium is less than the energy gained from solenoid piston reciprocators. |
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What's a solenoid piston reciprocator and how can it generate so much energy? |
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// You're assuming the energy needed to recompress the helium is less than the energy gained from solenoid piston reciprocators.// careful [Madai], you are stepping on hallowed Hullabaloon habitation. |
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I don't get it, but I like it. + |
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You say that like you know what it means, after demonstrating
you don't. |
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After submitting ideas here for over ten years? This is and has
alwayss been a site for poorly thought out ideas. You pack up
your things and get the hell out of here. |
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Can't users just answer their own questions instead of posing
questions as if they are the crucial flaws in the poorly thought
out
idea. Anyone can say anytthing but instead of imaginative
suggestions it's usually nit picking at what is really a pointillism
of
nits. |
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"Poorly thought out" isn't the sum total of the
qualifications. |
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//Generally, the more you know (and can explain!)
about the technology behind your invention, the
more interesting the posting will be.// |
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//bad science - the invention is intended as a
serious suggestion, but is based on scientific
"facts" that are widely known to be wrong. This
includes perpetuum mobiles, cloned fingerprints,
and inhaling helium to make you fly. Or as Homer
Simpson puts it, "In this house, we obey the laws
of thermodynamics!"// |
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//Get over your frustration, delete the non-
starter if you want, and come back when you've
got another invention - serious or funny - you
want to try out. It's okay. If the other users were
always funny, they'd be highly acclaimed comedy
writers and have no time to hang out on a
website.// |
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What? You've proven nothing just copy pasted from help file. |
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What is this about, filling the helium canisters? The energy
required? It's a massive space blimp powered by violently
exploding balloons and 2Quest needs someone to explain how the
coffee machine works in the balloonists lounge. |
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<shock and awe>How did you know where that was
from?</saa> |
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Being that incredulous is really only suggestive of your intellect. |
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The expansion and compression of gasses in a closed
loop is not a source of energy. Since there is no
external power source in this idea, and it involves
motion, it is, by definition, a perpetual motion
machine. Therefore [Marked-For-Deletion] Bad
Science. |
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There is a difference between poorly thought out
and unworkable. |
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Annoying. Don't you see how the bursting balloons are the power
source? You can't just say something dumb and call it a scientific
principle. Whatever in this schematic is causing the balloons to
expand is the power source. Do you think magic is doing that
dumbass? |
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The balloons burst due to the expansion of gasses at
lower pressures. Said gasses are then re-compressed
into cylinders. This takes more energy than the
expansion provides. Closed loop, no energy input.
Net result, this doesn't work. |
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