(word processor parameters LM=8, RM=75, TM=2, BM=2) Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501 Sponsored by Vangard Sciences PO BOX 1031 Mesquite, TX 75150 There are ABSOLUTELY NO RESTRICTIONS on duplicating, publishing or distributing the files on KeelyNet except where noted! February 2, 1992 ROPEPMP.ASC -------------------------------------------------------------------- From Popular Science, June 1951, page 77 -------------------------------------------------------------------- The following article piqued our interest since we always look for low tech ways of achieving what most think REQUIRES the use of motors. It is one of the fallacies of modern thought that work can ONLY be accomplished by relatively complex devices. In most ways, rotary motion is more efficient, yet requires more complicated attachments. So what if the techinque of accomplishing takes a bit more energy, it uses less parts and is much more reliable as well as being ecologically safe. Note that rotary motion pumps still require impellers, seals and custom made chambers, while the following technique requires only 3 components, 1) motor, 2) rope, 3) pulley. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Rope Lifts Water Without a Bucket Now you can pump water with clothesline - NO pipes, NO valves, NO buckets - just ordinary rope clothesline sent spinning around pulleys by a motor. Two University of Illinois professors are already doing it, raising 12 gallons a minute about 25 feet. It's not a trick. They foresee many uses for such a cheap, easy-to-rig pump. The clothesline just races down and up through the water at 40 feet per second - the speed imparted by a 6-inch pulley at 1,750 r.p.m. As the rope comes up, friction makes a quarter-inch layer of water stick to it. The water is thrown off into a chute by centrifugal force when the rope speeds over the top pulley. The reason it works is the same reason you'd have trouble running down an UP escalator. The water is always pouring down the upbound rope, but so long as the rope moves up faster than the water moves down, the rope wins and water is pumped. Actually, rope pumps are centuries old. Professors Henry L. Langhaar and William M. Owen ran across mention of one in an old book on hydraulics. The author didn't think much of the idea, and Page 1 neither did the professors. But they tried it - at a total expenditure of 98 cents for 100 feet of clothesline. The 1/4 HP motor and pulleys were found in the laboratory. (lying around, thus no special purchase) To their surprise, it worked amazingly well. Some water drops back through the rope holes, but this is a minor loss. Since there seems to be NO LIMIT TO THE HEIGHT of lift, they think it could do almost any job, such as raising water for livestock. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Vangard Note... An excellent way of thinking of this is that of a Van De Graff machine. If you are familiar with this device, you will instantly find the analogy helpful. For those who are unfamiliar with the operation of a Van De Graff, a short description follows : Van De Graff Electrostatic Generators use a motor, a belt with the ability to hold electrostatic charges, a pulley and an accumulator. The motor spins at a high rate of speed to cause the charged belt to move through a column and throw off loose static charges. These charges are centrifugally thrown into the inside of an accumulator which allows the charge to build up on the outside surface. This principle is the same as the Rope Pump, though using a different form of energy. In the accumulation/replenishment of energy (water or electricity), the primary question is HOW MUCH can be accumulated/replenished and over WHAT TIME FRAME? Modern times emphasizes rushing around and the hurry-up idea. As a result, we think everything should happen instantly. We can attribute this partly to the many interests of modern society and events which constantly draw ones' attention. Thus, we try to cram whatever we can into our available time. When times were slower, accumulation of energy over long time periods was accepted as the normal course of things. The actual use of the accumulated energy is over a relatively short duration so the buildup can again resume to the maximum level of the storage chamber. This simple idea applies to electricity, magnetism, gas, fluid or any other form of matter/energy and is really determined by the method of storage. Indeed, in a plenum of matter or energy the challenge is to come up with a means of storing the abundance of matter/energy into higher potentials (i.e. PUMPING.) Of course, this also could be applied to creating a lower energy potential which would draw from the surrounding environment to create a well of negativity. In seeking equilibrium, either of these flows can be made to do work. Page 2 So, for immediate concerns we should consider ways of optimizing the rope transfer rate. 1) A spongy texture would allow more absorption and a squeegee device attached at the dumping stage would greatly increase the transfer. 2) A polarized material with small cups parallel with the length of the rope and all facing the same direction would also increase the transfer. 3) Multiple ropes to increase the flow. The interesting thing about simple files like this one is that it enables one to appreciate and understand simple concepts which easily apply to all the complexities of free energy, levitation, etc... When you consider Zero Point Energy and how to "milk" it from the surrounding energy environment, you realize that since work is derived from tapping into a difference in potential AND that the energy environment is relatively constant, then you must create a "well" of high or low energy density of a greater accumulated magnitude than formal ZPE as occurs on the micro levels. Since formal ZPE involves the jitter effect from an essentially infinite number of micro energy fluctuations in random (ha!) patterns, then a large scale Jitter might be artifically created to be tapped for useable "coherent/DC" energy. Yes, I know, this appears to be off the topic of the paper, but in truth it is not. The idea is applicable across wide areas. If you happen to find anything like this, we would greatly appreciate you sharing it with others and KeelyNet. 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