<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Great Explanation Jay. One can just feel those molecules being pulled apart to gas! One could however recover the energy needed for pumping over the hump with a small turbine on the down side but probably not worth the expense and complexity. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 28, 2022, at 9:46 AM, Jay <jay.peltz@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Hi Bill</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Ok I\u2019ll trybto explain 1 more time. </div><div dir="ltr">Let\u2019s take your example. </div><div dir="ltr">Lake level at 100\u2019, top of dam at 143\u2019 output of the pipe at 0\u2019</div><div dir="ltr">The pipe is sch 80 steel,totally filled with water, no air. There is a check valve at the lake side which will allow lake water in but not out, with the pipe intake below water level, and there is a valve at the other end. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">When you open the valve at the bottom, that 143\u2019 of water will start to move out of the bottom of the pipe. It will be pulling up on the 43\u2019 from the top of dam down to the water. 33\u2019 down from the dam top on the lake side it will turn to vacuum leaving 10\u2019 of water in the pipe. The other 33\u2019 above it will siphon over the top of the dam and slowly make its way down the pipe. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It cannot pull more than 33\u2019 at sea level. Just the way it is. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">You can find good YouTube videos of water \u201cboiling\u201dat room temperature under a vacuum, and that\u2019s what happens in that pipe. That boiling means that the water is no longer a liquid but a gas. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Jay</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 27, 2022, at 8:09 PM, frenergy <frenergy@psln.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff
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<p>This is good, I'm not yet willing to accept egg-defeat. In my
previously described scenario, the atmospheric pressure does not
play a role because I'm not evacuating the air-filled pipe with
the suction side of a pump which <i>would</i> rely on atmospheric
pressure to fill the pipe with water as the vacuum increases
inside the pipe.</p>
<p> In my scenario the pipe going over the ridge is
filled with water from the discharge side of a pump, it could be
filled from anywhere in the pipe but there must be an exhaust only
air vent at the highest point of the pipe. Both ends of the pipe
must not allow any air in and one end of the pipe must be lower
than the other. Because we are not dealing with a mere 1
atmosphere of pressure (or vacuum in this case), the "pull" of the
water on the lower side of this pipe will cause tremendous
crushing pressure on the <u>outside</u> of this pipe that's
drawing out of the well. I think the physics is right but I'm not
sure how practical it is. The pipe has to be absolutely
air-tight, completely full of water and extremely strong.</p>
<p> Now I'm really sticking my neck out. There's gotta
be an old physics teacher out there....help!<br>
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<p>Bill<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Sorry about the egg</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Here is some actual info to confirm what I and
others have said. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">You cannot vacuum water any more than 33\u2019 at sea
level. </div>
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<p>OK, I'll gamble some egg on my face. In this case though,
you would not be "pulling a vacuum" with air (a gas)
involved. If you can fill the entire pipe with a liquid
(water), the water that's down slope of the water in the
well on the other side of the ridge it would pull the water
out of the well and up over that ridge <i>as long as</i>
the pipe exit is below the dynamic water level in the well
and the pipe's intake. <br>
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<p> The caveat: the pipe would have to be filled by
pumping out of the well (one time to set-up this siphon) and
the exit end of the pipe would have to be closed to be able
to fill the pipe <i>completely</i>, which would require an
air vent (exhaust vent only, not intake) at the highest
point of the pipe going over the ridge. A valve would also
be required at the exit end for flow control and prevent the
siphon from drawing the well dry. The pipe would have to
rated to handle the crushing force of the vacuum being
pulled on the uphill section of pipe after it left the
well. There could absolutely not be any leaks in the pipe.<br>
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<p> I hope my seat-of-the-pants physics is working
today.</p>
<p>Bill</p>
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roman,serif;font-size:large">Yes, but if the rise is
greater than about 30 feet (25 feet even) the water head
is greater than atmospheric and the water will draw a
vacuum in the pipe. These numbers depend upon the
location (elevation) and temperature of the water. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new
roman,serif;font-size:large">for example at 15,000 feet
the atmosphere is about 1/2 or sea level, meaning the
water column will break at 15 feet of head. (from my
high school physics, this is the scale height) so that
at 7500 feet the water column is a maximum of 3/4 x 30
feet or 22 feet. this is from memory and mine is not so
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of our water pumping customers to date have been
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the well-head. Just now I am looking at a
system pumping to a pond that is lower than the
well-head and lower even than the bottom of the
well. The 300\u2019 well has the head at 1200\u2019
elevation and pumping to a pond at 800\u2019
elevation. The line goes over a 1500\u2019 ridge.
If there were nothing impeding the water flow,
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