Re: Multiplier effect for energy?



G. R. L. Cowan wrote:


Or in an elevator shaft, replacing the well water with an elevator. Store energy by lifting it, recover less than 100 percent by letting it down again. As long as you pay your electric bill, and the utility has fuel, the action can continue. --- Graham Cowan, former hydrogen fan
http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/Paper_for_11th_CHC.html --
boron: how individual mobility gains nuclear cachet


Bouyancy anything is fundamentally flawed because it is hugely thermodynamically irreversible.

An earlier variation used bubbles released thousands of meters deep instead.

Besides its utter thermodynamic absurdity, the bubbles would reach terminal velocity in something like three quarters of an inch and would dissolve completely after traveling a few feet.

http://www.tinaja.com/glib/bashpseu.pdf


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