I recently found a website that claims a very similar design was introduced in 1929 (pat. number 1,708,807) by Frank Tatay.
His design was submitted with the appearance that it was intended as a novelty invention for fooling shop-window watchers. To the best of my knowledge my most recent design (Iteration 2) is original, or at least
contains some significant innovations, and does not require compressed gas to be pumped through hollow openings in the spokes, as Tatay claims.
Here is my criticism of Frank Tatay's design and design flaws.
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Back to the First Iteration:
DIAGRAM 1 (CONCEPT)
DIAGRAM 2 (APPLICATION)
DIAGRAM 3 (VARIATION 1)
DIAGRAM 4 (VARIATION 2)
DIAGRAM 5 (APPLICATION 2)
The general concept is that buoys have weight when falling and negative weight when submerged. Therefore, if for part of their path they are falling, and the other part submerged, there would be a potential for net-gain in power. Presumably if more than one of these buoys were rising, it could provide the power to push one buoy up into the lower end of the water tank.
I don't have the resources to test this concept as thoroughly as I would like, but of course if it is a viable source of energy we could all use cheaper power sources, and that is my intent here, foolish as it may seem. In theory, the tension in a cable with many of these buoys attached would increase, increasing power, as they cycle around.
As long as the lower rising portion of the rope is in tension--and I expect it would be from all those rising buoys--the lower of two operating wheels would allow the downward falling buoys to be pulled by that force.
The only forces to be reckoned with are
A. the resistance of the wheel axes,
B. the resistance of the weight of the wheels
C. the resistance of the single buoy entering the water from
below
D. the water resistance at greater speeds
According to Wikipedia on buoyancy, the Archimedes principle states that:
"The buoyant force is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid."
However, one experiment I conducted did not disprove that buoyancy increases with depth. A 4 inch wide sphere apparently increased as much as 0.6 ounces in buoyancy in 20 inches, suggesting that buoyancy may increase as much as an ounce for every 30 inches. If this is true, then a necklace of over 120 interlinked buoys may produce as much as 3 times the power as resistance. In order to see how I calculated this, refer to Equations 11 .
I've also been supposing that this design does not break the first rule of thermodynamics, because it consumes no heat and does not change in volume. In fact, the water has the potential to cool any extra heat energy.
(a joke, of course, since heat in this context is only waste).
See more on the relationship with thermodynamics HERE.
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