Interesting email relating to a slow water storage system, followed by a
fast gravity driven dump, check this out;
> I wonder if you have ever heard of a pump storage project? My Dad and
> Uncle worked on in Back Creek Virginia. I think it was called Bath
> County pump storage project. The way it was said to work that it
> had two pools of water one up high one lower. There was a series of
> tunnels built side by side, Huge!! In these tunnels were the generator
> turbines. The way it was said to work was to turn on the water at peak
> power consumption hours. And then slowly pump the water back up to the
> top pool during the off hours. This place is huge and took mucho money
> to build. I also heard that it was semi secret when it was built in
> other words they would not let just anyone around it. (Also, there is
> a possibly more higher secure area that only some workers could go. I
> am not sure about this since I heared about this only from word of
> mouth.) But one thing certain is the oddity of the place and the big
> expense it was to build , several hundred million at least, maybe in
> the billions. I don't know for sure how much. You may check into this,
> maybe it is some form of secret government project in over-unity. Or
> maybe something they was experimenting with, that needed a huge amount
> of energy for a short period of time. Or maybe it is just what they
> say it is. ? My Dad said he thought that there was more of these pump
> storage Dams elsewhere in the country. Me, I would think that they
> would spend the money to build a real dam on a river to get continous
> power knowing the energy losses in such a system. My dad had the idea
> that slowly pumping the water back up would take less energy that was
> first obtained. If so this is not normal physics. What do you think ?
> I think it may be worth some looking into if you want overunity.
The point here is of course energy over time....what if you used a siphon
process, well, more like giant capillaries to replenish the reservoir???
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