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GRAVITY AS ENERGY SOURCE TRANSPORTATION
Heavy weights moving downwards contain gravitational energy. Large transport vehicles, ships and trains could be utilized as balancing weights in teeter totter systems. For example, very heavy ships, such as loaded oil tankers, container ships or cruise liners when entering a port and approaching the harbour slowly, could be directed by buoys to pass a few meters away from a straight cement wall, and at the same time press down a submergible, flexible platform, which extends into the water. The platform itself would look like a long roller ramp for boat launching turned sideways and situated along the cement wall. Each roller is an independently moving arm. The fulcrum is at the bottom of a U shaped teeter totter, resting just inside the cement wall on the ground, and the other arm on land holds a counterweight. The common point is the long immovable axel at the fulcrum. In the water the rollers are about ˝ to 1 ˝ m apart and connected to each other with flexible movable brackets, which makes them appear as a giant ammunition belt. This roller platform floats horizontally as each arm is slightly bent. Altogether the system resembles to an upright piano; the keys are the rollers in the water, the counterweights (piano hammers) located behind the board (usually with the piano mfg, name on) which is equivalent to the cement wall. As the palm of a hand slides over the entire keyboard, similarly ships would slide, between markers (buoys) over the platform.
Ships depress the arms of the platform down to the keel, the entire draught line. As soon as the ships passed through, slowly the counterweights return the platform to its original place. The counterweights are designed to be heavy enough for energy generation, but calibrated with the ships weight so as not to block their passage. Both sides of the platform start with smaller weights so that ships can slide through without the slightest obstacle in their movement in and out of harbour. Kinetic energy alone would probably help to propel ships forth to about a ship length or more. Energy is produced by each arm, moving separately, with the help of gears turning turbines or flywheels, because the pressure is intense and quick.
Using lighter counterweights separate systems would be suitable for less heavy ships. Favourable sites for such systems could be found in numerous ports around the world, but also in ports in large lakes, wide rivers, and along major canals.
TRANSPORTATION PART 2
Land transport vehicles could also be employed to lift up weights, incrementally, for the purpose of inducing gravitational energy. If with one arm it is possible to lift up a heavy car using a car jack, a series of coordinated car jacks could lift up heavier weights. For example by placing between a double track railway or a divided highway, a rectangular shaped heavy weight, and using coordinated jacks 30-40 cm apart on both sides, one could lift up the entire weight.
This would require cutting a series of grooves across the pavement (or inserting a piece of rail in the line) and placing long levers each with a spring mechanism to re-bounce the lever in the groove – and as the vehicles pass over the levers, and reach a certain cumulative weight, they move the jacks up a notch using the mechanical advantage of the lever. Under the highway braces/brackets connect the levers so they move in unison.
Engineers would have to design a new jack which is capable of heavy lifting, firmly fixed on its stand, and raises the weight as high as mechanically possible as well as resets itself as soon as a mechanism disengaged it from the weight, when the weight reached its maximum height. A difficult task but worthwhile. As the rectangular shaped weight falls in its shaft, on its free sides straight cogwheel type grooves turn turbines or flywheels. The grooves on the road should be specially designed that the vehicles passing over would feel just a small bump as if they were going through rough road. Uneven traffic in each direction must be accounted for so the jacks sense the shift of load and self-adjust (break or slow?)
Considering the total length of the world’s railways and highways, the growing number of vehicles and the ever increasing traffic, new roads and rails, there are ample opportunities for teeter totter, see saw, and “jacks” based systems. While these ideas may appear impractical they demonstrate a principle that gravitational energy can be utilized by employing natural weights and counterweights or applying mechanical advantage. Further research could modify, improve or develop entirely different concepts. see also kinetic energy ideas
Heavy weights moving downwards contain gravitational energy. Large transport vehicles, ships and trains could be utilized as balancing weights in teeter totter systems. For example, very heavy ships, such as loaded oil tankers, container ships or cruise liners when entering a port and approaching the harbour slowly, could be directed by buoys to pass a few meters away from a straight cement wall, and at the same time press down a submergible, flexible platform, which extends into the water. The platform itself would look like a long roller ramp for boat launching turned sideways and situated along the cement wall. Each roller is an independently moving arm. The fulcrum is at the bottom of a U shaped teeter totter, resting just inside the cement wall on the ground, and the other arm on land holds a counterweight. The common point is the long immovable axel at the fulcrum. In the water the rollers are about ˝ to 1 ˝ m apart and connected to each other with flexible movable brackets, which makes them appear as a giant ammunition belt. This roller platform floats horizontally as each arm is slightly bent. Altogether the system resembles to an upright piano; the keys are the rollers in the water, the counterweights (piano hammers) located behind the board (usually with the piano mfg, name on) which is equivalent to the cement wall. As the palm of a hand slides over the entire keyboard, similarly ships would slide, between markers (buoys) over the platform.
Ships depress the arms of the platform down to the keel, the entire draught line. As soon as the ships passed through, slowly the counterweights return the platform to its original place. The counterweights are designed to be heavy enough for energy generation, but calibrated with the ships weight so as not to block their passage. Both sides of the platform start with smaller weights so that ships can slide through without the slightest obstacle in their movement in and out of harbour. Kinetic energy alone would probably help to propel ships forth to about a ship length or more. Energy is produced by each arm, moving separately, with the help of gears turning turbines or flywheels, because the pressure is intense and quick.
Using lighter counterweights separate systems would be suitable for less heavy ships. Favourable sites for such systems could be found in numerous ports around the world, but also in ports in large lakes, wide rivers, and along major canals.
TRANSPORTATION PART 2
Land transport vehicles could also be employed to lift up weights, incrementally, for the purpose of inducing gravitational energy. If with one arm it is possible to lift up a heavy car using a car jack, a series of coordinated car jacks could lift up heavier weights. For example by placing between a double track railway or a divided highway, a rectangular shaped heavy weight, and using coordinated jacks 30-40 cm apart on both sides, one could lift up the entire weight.
This would require cutting a series of grooves across the pavement (or inserting a piece of rail in the line) and placing long levers each with a spring mechanism to re-bounce the lever in the groove – and as the vehicles pass over the levers, and reach a certain cumulative weight, they move the jacks up a notch using the mechanical advantage of the lever. Under the highway braces/brackets connect the levers so they move in unison.
Engineers would have to design a new jack which is capable of heavy lifting, firmly fixed on its stand, and raises the weight as high as mechanically possible as well as resets itself as soon as a mechanism disengaged it from the weight, when the weight reached its maximum height. A difficult task but worthwhile. As the rectangular shaped weight falls in its shaft, on its free sides straight cogwheel type grooves turn turbines or flywheels. The grooves on the road should be specially designed that the vehicles passing over would feel just a small bump as if they were going through rough road. Uneven traffic in each direction must be accounted for so the jacks sense the shift of load and self-adjust (break or slow?)
Considering the total length of the world’s railways and highways, the growing number of vehicles and the ever increasing traffic, new roads and rails, there are ample opportunities for teeter totter, see saw, and “jacks” based systems. While these ideas may appear impractical they demonstrate a principle that gravitational energy can be utilized by employing natural weights and counterweights or applying mechanical advantage. Further research could modify, improve or develop entirely different concepts. see also kinetic energy ideas