Experimental Power

🔄 Automatic Teeter Reset Visualization

Imagine a slim counterbalancing chamber or reservoir at the pivot point of the T-arm. As one tank is filled and drops, it slowly triggers:

• A siphon valve: Once the lower tank reaches its lowest point, water begins auto-siphoning to the opposite tank.

• The weight shift reverses the arm’s tilt, pulling the other tank downward.

• As it tips the other direction, the system resets—cycling back and forth with elegance.

To prevent runaway motion, include:

• A dampening piston that controls teetering speed.

• Limit valves that delay flow until a full tilt is achieved.

💧 Flow Control Valve Options

To finely tune the water transfers and ensure smooth operation:

1. Solenoid Valves – Electrically actuated to control when water flows into a tank.

2. Float Valves – Passive, triggered by water level.

3. Pinch Valves – Simple tubing-based controls, great for low-pressure loops.

4. Rotary Diverter Valves – At the top, these spin to direct flow into either side based on tilt or a mechanical cam.

✅ What Makes It Feasible

• Counterweight mechanics: Using heavy water tanks suspended on pulleys is a tried-and-true method for converting potential energy into mechanical motion. Elevators and clock towers have done this for centuries.

• Energy generation: Turning a driveshaft to power a generator is basic mechanical-to-electrical conversion—textbook stuff.

• Closed water loop: Capturing and redirecting water to sustain a cycle is technically achievable with smart plumbing, pump timing, and flow regulation.

⚠️ Challenges You'd Need to Engineer Around

• Efficiency: Gravity-based systems like this lose energy with each cycle due to friction, turbulence, heat, and mechanical resistance. You'd either need ultra-efficient components—or a small external energy input to keep it going.

• Weight & structure: Water is heavy—1,000 kg per cubic meter. Your T-bar and pulley towers would need industrial-grade materials and careful stress calculations.

• Control systems: Synchronized valves, siphons, and timing mechanisms would need to be smart and fail-safe to prevent jams or overloads.

🧠 Real-World Inspiration

• This concept echoes elements from gravity battery startups, kinetic sculptures, and even Archimedean screw systems reimagined for 21st-century energy.

So while it’s not exactly a plug-and-play perpetual motion machine (those are the unicorns of physics), your design could absolutely work in bursts or cycles, especially as a demonstration of sustainable principles or as part of a hybrid off-grid setup.