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On Wed, 30 May 2007 08:07:13 -0700, me wrote:
Off a cliff your easiest way is a 50 lb bucket with a 60 lb counter weight all hanging on a single pulley. Fill bucket, it goes down, weight comes up. Empty bucket, weight goes down, bucket comes up. You can do something similar with a cable, a car, and a track. Other than that, my bet would be on any of the existing regenerative braking systems already in existence. Instead of a counterweight, just use two buckets. Fill the top bucket, release the brake, and the bucket descends, raising the other bucket. Set the brake, empty the lower bucket while filling the upper bucket, and so on. But that depends on the characteristics of the road - is it straight? Line-of-sight? Can you claim a lane for your cablecars? I wonder what ever happened to the OP anyway? Thanks, Rich |
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MooseFET wrote:
On May 29, 9:32 pm, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Don't forget to add enough cats to the load in the "Cat-A-Pult" to make sure it lands right side up. Tape buttered toast onto the cats back and it will spin up and fly much straighter. Well, at least till all the butter flys off. -- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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On Wed, 30 May 2007 11:17:01 -0400, Moka Java wrote:
While you were siting on you fat pot smoking ass trolling to get other people to create energy for you I bought 3 bicycles at Wal-Mart, hired a bunch of Mexicans with back packs and scooped your franchise. Yeah, but are the bezels water-proof? Now go get a job and stop wasting our time and get your fat pimply face out'a your mom's refrigerator! R "school's out for the summer" TF -- jimbo "enquiring minds want to know" @sonic.net |
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On May 30, 12:23 pm, Rich Grise wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2007 08:07:13 -0700, me wrote: Off a cliff your easiest way is a 50 lb bucket with a 60 lb counter weight all hanging on a single pulley. Fill bucket, it goes down, weight comes up. Empty bucket, weight goes down, bucket comes up. You can do something similar with a cable, a car, and a track. Other than that, my bet would be on any of the existing regenerative braking systems already in existence. Instead of a counterweight, just use two buckets. Fill the top bucket, release the brake, and the bucket descends, raising the other bucket. Set the brake, empty the lower bucket while filling the upper bucket, and so on. But that depends on the characteristics of the road - is it straight? Line-of-sight? Can you claim a lane for your cablecars? Yes, there is more left out of this problem than left in. It is also possible (especially on a vertical drop system) to put several "buckets" on a rotating system and continually fill and empty them as the "go by". Basically a solid mass version of a "water wheel". |
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On Wed, 30 May 2007 16:29:43 +0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
MooseFET wrote: On May 29, 9:32 pm, "Michael A. Terrell" Don't forget to add enough cats to the load in the "Cat-A-Pult" to make sure it lands right side up. Tape buttered toast onto the cats back and it will spin up and fly much straighter. Well, at least till all the butter flys off. I'd pay $100.00 to see somebody tape a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat. ;-) I'd have no problem covering the #100 - it'd win $10,000 on "America's Stupidest Videos". ;-) Cheers! Rich |
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On Wed, 30 May 2007 11:58:49 -0700, me wrote:
On May 30, 12:23 pm, Rich Grise wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007 08:07:13 -0700, me wrote: Off a cliff your easiest way is a 50 lb bucket with a 60 lb counter weight all hanging on a single pulley. Fill bucket, it goes down, weight comes up. Empty bucket, weight goes down, bucket comes up. You can do something similar with a cable, a car, and a track. Other than that, my bet would be on any of the existing regenerative braking systems already in existence. Instead of a counterweight, just use two buckets. Fill the top bucket, release the brake, and the bucket descends, raising the other bucket. Set the brake, empty the lower bucket while filling the upper bucket, and so on. But that depends on the characteristics of the road - is it straight? Line-of-sight? Can you claim a lane for your cablecars? Yes, there is more left out of this problem than left in. It is also possible (especially on a vertical drop system) to put several "buckets" on a rotating system and continually fill and empty them as the "go by". Basically a solid mass version of a "water wheel". Well, the OP did say a paved road uphill to the material, but didn't say what material, how heavy a bushel is, is the road switchbacks, etc., etc., etc.... Thanks, Rich |
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On Wed, 30 May 2007 20:49:02 GMT, Rich Grise wrote:
I'd pay $100.00 to see somebody tape a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat. ;-) I'd have no problem covering the #100 - it'd win $10,000 on "America's Stupidest Videos". ;-) Cheers! Rich You'd lose, on both counts. I'd anaesthetize the cat. -- ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Start at the beginning. You have a weight on top of a mountain, how
do you get it down the mountain? Funicular. The famous Denniston Incline in New Zealand was a classic case of this in action http://tinyurl.com/2pxf3l http://tinyurl.com/2gx6ph |
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Start at the beginning. You have a weight on top of a mountain, how
do you get it down the mountain? Funicular. The famous Denniston Incline in New Zealand was a classic case of putting this into action http://tinyurl.com/2pxf3l http://tinyurl.com/2gx6ph |
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