Syphoning Effect: Is It Possible?

[antekatavic]

Ok. first You are telling me to run numbers now not to... I do not know anymore...
does anything I wrote has any practical use anywhere on the planet or it is all nonsens

 

[antekatavic]

@ jared look what jschmidt wrote at th second page

 

[Drakkith]

Ok. first You are telling me to run numbers now not to... I do not know anymore...
does anything I wrote has any practical use anywhere on the planet or it is all nonsens

The concept is mostly fine, its just the details that could use some work.

 

[antekatavic]

The lowest exposed land on Earth is at the Dead Sea shore, at -413 meters. How about runing a pipe from mediteran sea to a dead sea... the bigest siphon ever!
you could run a turbines with the fall of wather of 423meters !

 

[antekatavic]

also you have much others depresion and they are almost all located near the sea, and where the tectonic plates colide

 

[JaredJames]

Again, you have to take into account resistive losses. The pipe itself will have a loss per meter and then every twist and turn will have one.

Particularly when considering long distances, you must factor them in.

You also need to consider the flow rate and how much power generation it would allow for.

 

[antekatavic]

I think the bigest problem would be that the pipe would had to be on big elevation from ground due to a fact that is a depresion! and that pipe fileed with water would be wery heavy... so you would have to put the pipe so it is folowing the ground and still you would have a big flow and presure because 420 meters is big elevation on a 300 km long pipe

edit but in this case it is not a siphon:(((((
edit: or maybe it can be if at the and of the pipe I have a vertical fall biger then 10 meters )