Recent content by BethNB

Thanks for the pointers! I'm curious if anyone has actually tried though? or even if the physics/math could be figured theoretically... Is there a guideline for power generation/outputs that are generally considered "efficient" or otherwise, in proportion to the money/effort put in + lack of...

Ok, well I definitely need to understand more about counterweights then. I really appreciate your descriptions and using better terminology than I'm able to, to describe what it is I am trying to describe, this is great! And I'm totally open to understanding that it's a naf idea but...

Those are good questions. I don't know anything about offering resistance but what if the whole thing was designed abit like an elevator with a counterweight on a pulley? (The counterweight would need a water-free shaft maybe so that the water doesn't influence the freedom of its up and down...

I did acknowledge nothing is free. I think what I'm trying to say is that tide waters lifting heavy things up for us for 'free', is the same idea as people climbing the stairs but taking a power-generating-elevator down, if only we could plug into the potential energy of those raised heavy...

It's buoyant weight is different I'm sure but as it's let down imagine if there were mechanisms offering resistance, designed to generate electricity as its lowered? Like the electricity generating flooring surface that Lawrence Kemball Cook came up with? Or if the object's height could be...

Thank you for pointing me to that. Let's suppose the floating object is usually 200 kg. And let's say the height at high tide is 15 meters... but now I'm having a hard time figuring it's SI, or acceleration due to gravity, because it's not free falling... not like in the illustration that shows...

We've all also seen boats left sitting on a dry coastal sea floor, when the tide is out. So what is the potential energy of such a large item when it has been lifted up to 15 meters?

Elevators are run on electricity and counterweights so yeah it would only be getting out a portion of what was put it. But the concept of how to do that with an elevator, would be the concept or principle that I would want to apply to an object being lifted and let down by rising and lowering...

How do we factor in the empty elevator that travels to pick people up when they call for it? It's moving up and down through the day and it's the motion of it moving up and down I'm interested in figuring out how to "plug" into.

Yet elevators ride empty all the time. I'm talking about viewing an up and down motion, that's happening anyway for other reasons, as a sort of engine that we can plug into. Same as the tide and anything that the water happens to hold up or let down, as an engine to plug a power generator into.

Thanks for mentioning that... I am looking into it

I'm aware of the role the counterweight plays, to some degree, but would the up and down motion being carried out through everyone's daily comings and goings not be something that an ulterior tailor made energy conversion/power generating system could "plug" into?

Hi all, this is my first post. It seems around eight years ago I was on a similar brain-wave-length as Laurence Kemball-Cook, with his idea to create a power generating flooring surface... only he had the know-how to bring the idea to market, so credit where credit is due. (though now I wonder...