I wasn't thinking of anything quite so huge but obviously it's all at high pressure...is there not a design way out of this, such as inward-pointing cantilever walls? Like the load-bearing structure of a bridge. They could then in turn be braced against a containing structure that could sort of...
yes, that' right...it's a sealed system and a wacky idea but I don't know if it's Alfred E Neumann or pure genius!
The turbine is outside the unit and I envisaged two outlets spiralling in from somewhere up in the outer columns, re-entering the air chamber to discharge just above the water level!
I'll have one more go at this!
The input is the pressurised water outlet up the outer columns, but once it has all flowed through the turbine and back in, it's vented into the air body itself in the high pressure air ie above the central chamber water level where it falls into the reservoir...
ok but what about the height gradient?
Are you assuming that the water outlet from the turbine is immersed in the lower water body?
I was thinking the simple height gradient would drive the turbine, perhaps not very dynamically but even so it would run.
If the central chamber air...
Hey, new to this forum but this chimes with an idea I've dreamt up.
Re compressed air and turbines... could you not have a totally enclosed container with sufficient height to create a big head of water.
Container divided vertically into 3 columns, all linked at the bottom, outer 2 with...