supplying water uphill 5

[elecbradley]

how to supply water up a small hill from a pond NEAR the bottom, without the use of manpower, animal power, wind power, solar power, electricity or a heat engine?

 

[GregLocock]

The pond is NEAR the bottom. Dig an outlet put a hydraulic ram in it and the riddle is satisfied.

Alternatively wait for a giant meteor to hit the pond and splash some water up the hill.

Or exploit quantum mechanics. Cool the water to a low temperature. This means you know the velocity to some arbitrary accuracy. The Heisenberg Uncertainity principle then tells you what the probability of one of those water molecules actually being on top of the hill is, since the more accurately you know how fast it is going, the less accurately you know where it is.






Cheers

Greg Locock

SIGlease see FAQ731-376 for tips on how to make the best use of Eng-Tips.

 

[Artisi]

"The pond is NEAR the bottom. Dig an outlet put a hydraulic ram in it and the riddle is satisfied"

Provided that the inflow is sufficient to drive the hydraulic ram for sufficient time to pump water to the top.

 

[bvanhiel]

Wait for rain.

 

[cloa]

You could always heat the water using nuclear materials and the steam would quite happily go uphill. Just a matter of isolation, piping and condensation on the top of the hill.

 

[corrosionman]

Cover the pond with a polythene sheet which continues as a tunnel to the hill top where a condenser will revert the moist air back to water, or is this classed as solar heat .
Corrosionman

 

[ivymike]

wow, I wish I'd seen that site back when I had a pond to keep full, hundreds of feet above a creek.

 

[limey1]

There is no Hill

 

[mauricestoker]

Use a water wheel. The water goes down from near the bottom to the bottom, turning the wheel.

 

[Artisi]

"elecbradley (Electrical)" must have drowned in the pond- seems that he is missing in action.

 

[TVP45]

If indeed there is inflow/outflow for the pond, a hydraulic ram, as suggested by SincoTC, is a good solution. Their energy efficiencies run almost 50% and they really do last almost forever. Typical results may be found here

http://www.riferam.com/rams/deliver.htm

 

[KENAT]

Read the question, it doesn't explicitly say you have to do it perpetually etc. As such for the question as given it doesn't matter if you empty the pond in the process.

You have a body of water (qty unspecified) part way up a hill.

You want to get some water (qty unspecified) part way up a hill.

A hydraulic Ram and appropriate piping/channels would appear to be up to the job as stated.

KENAT,

Have you reminded yourself of faq731-376 recently, or taken a look at posting policies:

http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?

 

[Artisi]

As we haven't heard anything from the OP - who knows what is required, if anything other than a college homework problem.

 

[Ron]

Hot water goes on the left, payday is on Friday, and s*$t won't flow uphill...plumbing 101

 

[SnTMan]

Ron, also, don't bite your fingernails

Mike