Re:Gravitation water vortex power plant
by debacle on Saturday April 21, 2018 @05:42PM
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Would it be viable to create a vortex system that acts as a fluid flywheel?
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Re:Gravitation water vortex power plant
by LoSboccacc on Saturday April 21, 2018 @05:59PM
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Yes but centrifugal forces on the simle “rotating fluid” equivalent are too strong and require a costly casing when compared to an equivalent solid flywheel. What they do is they use the rotating part as a pump to push the fluid up a vertical pressurized storage and the pressure there plus the potential energy of the fluid store the energy in a more manageable matter than having it all in the fluid speed