Recent content by kitarey

Maybe there is some misunderstanding regarding how the air is exiting the building. It exits in the same manner as if you had a 2000 cfm, 100 psi compressor. My biggest confusion from your responses is regarding the air volume expansion in the water tank. If you have one cubic foot of air at a...

ok I gotcha. I guess I don't know much about how a pneumatic motor operates. Would it provide an equal amount of power to the 42,000 lbs from this idea?

From what I understand, the buoyant force of the air will lift the containers and rotate the system. The rotation will turn the shafts of the gearbox which connects to the generator. With this in mind and the system running at optimal, why would any motor be needed. The prime mover is the...

Dalespam, Thx for reply, but I'm confused by your reply. At 100 feet one cubic foot of air is compressed to one-fourth its volume. With this in mind then, would it not be true that the 2000 cfm would actually enter the tank at 500 cfm then expand to 2000 cfm when it rose to the surface? I...

Thank you for the replies. I do follow your points regarding the air flow. The outflow of air is a fixed flow of 2000 cfm at 100 psi (measured) from the plant at surface level. Regardless of how or why this is expelled, it exists. The 2000 cfm will release into the tank at 100 ft at a rate of...

Buoyant Lift Creates Useful Energy? I work at a manufacturing plant. One by product of this plant is the issuance of 2000 cfm (cubic feet per minute) of clean air. It is determined that this air could be released from as small as a 3 inch pipe with no adverse harm to the manufacturing...

Actually we were originally thinking of what the lifting capability would be of a rotary air compressor with an intake cfm of 2000 which would be 500 cfm at 100 ft depth of water. Then we wondered if you could get more lifting ability if you were to use the same energy which is 200 kw constant...

Thank you for replying. I understand what you are both explaining. Let me ask this - If you were to hover a large bowl above the rising steam bubbles, would you get any air at all in that bowl that would allow the bowl to rise to the surface (1 cubic foot of air lifts 63 lbs)? Kit

Is there a way to calculate this? We are interested in how boiling water creates air bubbles. We want to generate a volume of 500 cubic feet per minute of air at a depth of 100 feet (which would be approx 2000 cfm at surface) in a large water tank (100x18x8). We want to generate this volume...

Thx for the neat gif. Yes, that is what he was explaining and yes I disagree. in a larger explanation of the discussion, we were talking about a roller chain system (think bike chain but vertical not horizontal) where you have an upper shaft and lower shaft with the chain attached. Say that the...

That is what I hope, but in a breakfast discussion on Saturday, someone that has a greater intellect than I (physics dept of U of Utah) told me that the air at that depth would not enter the bucket (we were specifically discussing a 5ft diameter sphere cut to resemble a deep bowl), but would...

In this instance a compressor would be used. Getting the air to the depth is not the issue here. My question is more focused on the reaction of the air once it is rising at that depth, but thank you for the reply. As stated "Our concern is strictly regarding the ability of the air to displace...

I put on my cutest bikini, grab a bucket that holds one cubic foot of volume, and a 50 pound weight, and jump in the pool. I submerge the bucket, evacuating all of the air, and turn the bucket upside down. I put the weight on top of the bucket. My girlfriend, who looks terrific in her one piece...

Im looking for information regarding wind turbines. A 1.5 megawatt turbine rotates at 20 rpm and requires 338 kiloNewton meters of force. A 100 kilowatt turbine rotates at 60 rpm and requires 19.4 kiloNewton meters of force. Both are gearbox driven generators. Is there a formula that is used...

I am not looking for a detailed answer to this question just a general. Say that you have 4 generators placed one above the other, and they are spaced 4 ft apart (not significant). You have a vertical roller chain (think of a bicycle chain) that all 4 geared shafts are "attached to", all...