Terry Blanton wrote:
>Horace Heffner wrote: >> That structure with turbine is easily adapted to driving > an underwater pump >> for water lifts for irrigation. > Yes. > I am working on a public demonstration of a high efficiency motor > whose torque/load relationship must remain constant. I have suggested > a water pump as the most viable candidate in the short term; but, it > is "not elegant enough". Many people do not realize how important it > would be to the world to simply lift water for free. True, but pumping water using its own flow has been going on for hundreds of years using the hydraulic ram. It has been used in Europe for agricultural irrigation and probably elsewhere as well. You didn't think Louis XIV pumped all that water from the Seine for those fountains at the Château de Versailles using a nuclear power plant did you? M. _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!
