New type of gravity power plant offers chance to be landmark use of fusion

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trevor borocz johnson said:
My utility patent is filed for Canada. That's right I don't have it yet but would probably get it if I continued the patent process. so i guess i mean equity for sale to anyone who wants to take a chance, entrepreneur's.
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There is also a great opportunity for making some money helping out a Nigerian Prince that sounds equally enticing.;)
 
Hello again Trevor.
trevor borocz johnson said:
blast a cannonball up into the air catch it where gravity pauses it then use the weight of the cannonball to pull down on an elevator type generator until the ball is back to where you shot it from at which point you can re load the cannon and start the process all over again.
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1] How long do you think your supply of gunpowder will last? Gunpowder must be made, and you will expend quite a bit of energy making it, lowering your net gain of energy to near zero. Blowing all that usable heat away into the atmp will drop your net energy into the negative.

TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Well., there is.... Nice thing about wind, solar and hydro is that they are sources of energy existing freely out there to be tapped.

2] Dispense with gravity. In fact, dispense with the cannonball. Harvest the heat directly from the gunpowder explosion, instead of letting it all escape into the air.

trevor borocz johnson said:
use a much larger explosive say a fission or fusion explosive to clear the water out.
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Just harvest the heat directly. No need to blow your hard-won heat and byproducts all over the countryside. You want a self-contained system.
 
DaveC426913 said:
How long do you think your supply of gunpowder will last? Gunpowder must be made, and you will expend quite a bit of energy making it, lowering your net gain of energy to near zero. Blowing all that usable heat away into the atmp will drop your net energy into the negative
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I thought that someone might set up a cannonball powerplant near the salt peter mines in Chile and use the mined Nitro as fuel directly into the powerplant. I m not sure if that's profitable. So I could tell you most explosives aren't profitable at this time. I originally envisioned fusion lasers as the ignition source and fusion 1-8 as the fuel. Using fusion is hard in this system even like it would be for an internal combustion engine. You definitely expend a lot of energy through unused heat but could capture some of the heat with water to cool down the molten from the blast points. gathering heat isn't my focus with this idea its to gather kinetic energy in weight displacement caused by an explosion which has efficiency estimates in the upper 30's lower 40's.
 
Trevor, the cannonball does nothing for your setup except squander large amounts of otherwise usable energy.

Your enthusiasm is to be commended, but the fact that you do not recognize the limit your understanding of power generation should give you long pause for thought.
 
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DaveC426913 said:
Trevor, the cannonball does nothing for your setup except squander large amounts of otherwise usable energy.
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I know I don't have any use for the cannonball power plant unless fusion lasers become available, then the cannonball powerplant could be useful. It's pretty exciting to me you have to understand that something I thought of that's never been done before worked in experimental stage. Pre-cutting and crater elevators are my main focus for this idea and what I hope to accomplish. Not anything with the cannonball idea really.
 
Daecon said:
Just because it "worked" doesn't mean it's worthwhile.
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That all depends on who you ask for efficiency's. I got from the computer .4% eff. for a surface blast crater and.1% eff. for an underground blast crater. I used those two commonly known numbers to roughly estimate the potential efficiency's of the other ideas.
 
trevor borocz johnson said:
I know I don't have any use for the cannonball power plant
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Trevor, you did not read my post.

I did not say the "cannonball power plant does nothing", I said "the cannonball does nothing for your setup". The inclusion of the cannonball in your power plant wastes energy through friction, and heat loss. Remove it. Extract the heat directly.
 
DaveC426913 said:
The inclusion of the cannonball in your power plant wastes energy through friction, and heat loss. Remove it. Extract the heat directly.
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I gotta disagree with you on that one. Gravity power plants gather there energy from weight not heat. weight displacement conversion for an explosive is like 40% efficient in a gun. If you wanted to gather heat you could circulate water in and around the cannon after blasting. Many people have tried to convert the heat from explosions into useful electricity but known successfully or efficiently.
 
trevor borocz johnson said:
I gotta disagree with you on that one. Gravity power plants gather there energy from weight not heat. weight displacement conversion for an explosive is like 40% efficient in a gun. If you wanted to gather heat you could circulate water in and around the cannon after blasting. Many people have tried to convert the heat from explosions into useful electricity but known successfully or efficiently.
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What about the diesel engine?
 
trevor borocz johnson said:
I thought that someone might set up a cannonball powerplant near the salt peter mines in Chile and use the mined Nitro as fuel directly into the powerplant. I m not sure if that's profitable. So I could tell you most explosives aren't profitable at this time. I originally envisioned fusion lasers as the ignition source and fusion 1-8 as the fuel. Using fusion is hard in this system even like it would be for an internal combustion engine. You definitely expend a lot of energy through unused heat but could capture some of the heat with water to cool down the molten from the blast points. gathering heat isn't my focus with this idea its to gather kinetic energy in weight displacement caused by an explosion which has efficiency estimates in the upper 30's lower 40's.
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Of course it isn't profitable. Explosives are expensive. Most people that use them to make money use them to mine for other minerals which they can actually sell for a profit, like coal or some kind of ore.
 
spidergoat said:
Of course it isn't profitable. Explosives are expensive. Most people that use them to make money use them to mine for other minerals which they can actually sell for a profit, like coal or some kind of ore.
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I know that already. This system will be used long into the future with lasers. It would be most cool of the world if it peacefully threw out all its nuclear arsenal into my system. No one has yet to give me a confident answer as for energy in, energy out in using nuclear fuels, probably because no one knows. I think there is a very good chance that these ideas will be implemented in the next couple decades.
DaveC426913 said:
Including you. You are merely adding the superfluous step of a weight that further loses energy that you will not recover.
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I'm all ears if you have a new idea to gather energy from explosives it was one of my original reasons for posting. No one seems to care or care to understand that almost half of the energy resulting from an explosive is converted to blast force, not heat. this is why so many have failed before me trying to gather heat from explosives, that's not what the energy is converted into.
exchemist said:
What about the diesel engine?
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diesel engine's use an explosion of gas mixture not decomposing fuels like nitroglycerine.
 
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