Thank you very much for your suggestion, Sophiecentaur! I watched quite a few siphon videos on YouTube, and I am convinced you have steered my thinking in the right direction. I was trying to figured it out by myself, and I took the time trying it; however, I am missing one item, that is, if I...
Thank your for your knowledge and willingness to help. My interests entail precisely not using sources of energy, other than those directly offered by nature. I may have misled you when I mentioned switching; I meant other natural switching devices and phenomena, such as floaters, siphons...
Ref CWatters #4 above, I agree that your suggested setup would delay the evaporation for the reason presented by you. I fail to see, though, a "thin and long" neck generating the largest possible "gulp" or "bubble" coming into the inverted bottle, which is supposed to happen once the water...
Perhaps my wording was misleading. Do you still believe the same, if you were to compare the items on the diagram below, where the height is the same? Thank you!
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I have read several threads concerning the operation of "inverted bottle dispensers", however, I have not found in any of them, the answer to my question: How can I vary or control the amount of air vs water that will exchange places at one given time, from a system at rest?
As to...