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Do you think he is actually batshit crazy or that he is on to something (however small) and it comes across all fucked up and gets lost in translation?
I think it's interesting but lacking all the other factors. Like sure the prepetual wirlygig plane will fly in space, but can't because there is no atmosphere type of stuff. I do enjoy reading it and it gets you thinking about things.
This guy didn’t happen to own a ginkgo farm did he?
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Have you every checked out the Taylor compressor at the Victoria dam on a trip to the UP? Some of the surface parts are still visible, when they lowered the dam for hydro plant maintenance a few years ago there were some neat pictures taken but I can't find them now. I also think I read that that most of it is still intact and could work if the water was turned back on . Some info here:
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The air get's trapped in the water as it's falling, the water is falling down a column faster than the bubbles can come back up. When they get to the bottom (hundreds of feet underground) they get trapped and are at about the same pressure as density of water*head in feet. Think about holding a cup upside down at the bottom of a waterfall and letting the bubbles get trapped in it. I'm not sure about the ragged chute unit but the one an hour south of me was rated at 40,000 CFM at 120PSI which was plenty for the rubber hoses of 1905.
I have read some of his ramblings and I have a reasonably good background in IC engines. He's crazy, and not in a good way like a mad scientist he want's to think he is. He's like 45 year old methhead neighbor down the street that thinks he can make perpetual energy by setting a wind turbine and an electric fan next to each other.
Smart enough in some respects to envision perpetual motion machines, but too deficient in others to integrate basic laws of physics into his ideas.
As you probably know screw type compressors have advanced in the last thirty years from 120 psi max to now at least 250 psi. The coalescers to dry the air of moisture and oil have also advanced as well with some great control with computers and chips.
It's also nice when people who know nothing about compressors decide one is too noisy for them while they are giving a tour so they shut off the main disconnect to your rotary screw air compressor while it's running loaded and it proceeds to puke it's guts all over the inside of the cabinet.As you probably know screw type compressors have advanced in the last thirty years from 120 psi max to now at least 250 psi. The coalescers to dry the air of moisture and oil have also advanced as well with some great control with computers and chips.
I agree, the folks operating and maintaining them ignore and bypass the alarms because it is just a air compressor. This causes big problems and shutdowns later of whole plants.
Dry air is hard if you have idiots at the control.
It's Boyle's Law at work.
Not a lot of applications that require 40,000 CFM of air that are too worried about particle size and dew points. When these were in place the mine's found that drills and motors lasted longer because the air was cleaner and drier than conventional compressors. The air would be at 100% RH at pressure but very cool in the receiver volume compared to any other compressor so once it was expanded out it probably was drier than a "normal" recip or rotary compressor that didn't have a drier. The 300+ foot climb back up to the surface in the air tube probably allowed most particles and any condensed moisture to fall back down.
You have hundreds of feet of water column. There's your source of pressure. The rest is just mechanical tricks to harness it.
but the magic is that there's only a few feet of fall between inlet and outlet
