Is it possible to pump water any distance on Eath just using a Hydroram pump?

Question

If just using gravity and air pressure then a series of hydroram pumps could supply all the electricity as well as compressed air and/or vacuum for the entire worlds populace! But greed prevents this from happening! We could pump sea water to resevoirs high in the mountains and at peak demand let it flow back to the sea and make power for all to use!

Answer 1

chances are the energy needed to get the sea water up to the reservoirs would be more than what you would gain.
Cost/efficiency would make this non-feasible.

Answer 2

There is nothing magical happening in a ram pump. A different design that accomplishes the same thing might work like this:

Water flows downhill from a pond (or other source) and drives a water wheel.
The water wheel is connected to a conventional shaft-drive pump (a reciprocating pump, a centrifugal pump, etc.)
The pump moves water uphill.
This design has more moving parts, but it accomplishes the same thing and has the advantage that it scales to any size very easily. The idea of using the energy of flowing water has been around for a long time!

Answer 3

There are a lot of losses in any electro-mechanical system like this, but, believe it or not, pumped storage systems are used in many parts of the world to store energy during times of minimal demand for later use during peak demand periods.

For one example, there is a large pumped storage system used as part of the California Aquaduct system, just east of Livermore, California. During late night times, they pump water uphill, and during afternoon peaks, they let it run back through the same pump/turbine machines, to generate electricity needed to keep LA's airconditioning (and even more important) the aquaduct pumps that pump the water over the San Gabriel mountains south of Bakersfield.

Not withstanding, the losses are only worthwhile because there is surplus electrical power available during the low demand periods that can be (partially) stored by this method.

Answer 4

This idea is already in use.. They use water from a lower lake to an upper lake and generate power at peak hours. Hydro power is quick where as the thermal or nuclear power is not and has to be run at near constant output for efficiency. So the surplus non peak hour generation is stored by pumping water and used in peak hours.

Answer 5

Dude, the energy spent moving the water to the top of the mountain is the same amount you will get back when you collect it at the dam. There is no GAIN in energy.

Secondly, you need energy to create the neccessary pressure to shoot the water up before gravity can bring it back down.

what you are talking about is PERPETUAL MOTION. There is no such thing in this world.

Answer 6

There would desire to be a rigidity swap which will turn the pump on whilst the rigidity drops and swap the pump off whilst the utmost rigidity is reached. those artwork straight away and cut back on/off pressures would properly be adjusted. There additionally must be a rigidity tank and a rigidity alleviation valve to insure the tank does not burst. the two would properly be offered and put in or replaced.

Answer 7

Are you really so bigoted that you think you're the only one who ever thought of that? It's been looked into extensively, and has incredibly bad efficiency from a standpoint of capital investment per kilowatt.

Let evaporation do the lifting like it always has..... it's free.

Answer 8

Yeah unfortunately theres something called the environment that would be harmed and something called money. I dont think greed has anything more to do with it than your illogical statements

Answer 9

Friction, my friend. The amount of friction, would negate the process. It's a nice idea, but flawed........