Troy Rhodes wrote:"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." - Thomas A. Edison
Get a working prototype and post some cool video and data.
Just to avoid some static and misunderstandings, compressed air is more of a storage medium, and not so much an energy source.
Would love to see some sketches of photos of your device to convert water motion to compressed air.
thanks in advance,
troy
Thanks for your interest Troy! I'm afraid that by attempting to avoid misunderstanding, you seem to have caused some because any air tool would tend to disagree about where it's energy comes from and I'm not sure why there would be any "static" or disagreement in this regard honestly.The picture I included is not very clear and I did state that the project did not reach completion stage, mostly because I don't have a moving water source on my urban plots and I needed some of the parts for other projects but the concept
should not be "rocket science" to anyone, you simply rig a waterwheel to a compressor head and pipe it into a holding tank. Another alternative would be to use a weighed pendulum arm with a paddle on the end dipping into a moving water source and gang the rocking motion to a bicycle
pump pushing air in to a tank.
This would be another instance where you could use the air tank itself as part of the pendulum weight so that as the pressure increases in the tank (and against the piston), the return force (weight) of the paddle back into the water would equally increase to compensate. The "concept" shown in the Dendara carvings would be the "working prototype" proof if indeed my analysis of the device's function is correct. I'm not far off from finishing the pendulum swing and tanks to begin proving the validity of this concept, and after that, "the sky's the limit" for the number of different configurations the concept can manifest in, including vertical axis wind turbines with air tanks built right into the flywheel "base".
The main reason I'm posting my ideas is because I've sustained some pretty devastating disabilities since I first started working on these things and progress is now (literally) painfully slow, not to mention a lot of my energies and resources are being diverted to the
gardening and other aspects of the whole
permaculture system and I've made the decision that FOOD production comes before energy, but ultimately, the energy part is going to massively assist in
gardening tasks as well, especially for water circulation and
compost mixing and all kinds of other energy intensive tasks.
This picture may help a little bit, this is around the point where I was adding flotation to the device and you can see the paddle wheel with the flexible drive cables leading from each end that WOULD have reconnected to the gear box and compressor head if I hadn't begun cannibalizing parts for other projects... I'm a bit of a build by the seat of my pants and worry about details later sort of inventor who gets sidetracked WAY too often it seems... a bit of A.D.D. going on with me I guess...