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here is probably the final video but as always let me know if something needs changing. 

I played around with an new stabilization algorithm a bit, see if you can spot it. 

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Water pump final?

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Anonymous

hi cody

Anonymous

The stabilization is a bit unsettling in the final clip with the glass squares. Otherwise I think the video is fine.

Anonymous

Looks good!

Anonymous

Shouldn't such pomp be more effective with thinner tubing (less water volume to heat and cool) ? Also, don't you think plastic tubing is too much of an heat insulator (but copper, even thin, is much more expensive) ? Also, a cheap way I've used to make solar ovens is emergency thermal blankets. They're a great way to trap heat. Basically I use them as "one way" heat surfaces. I think they would be better than your black background.

U.S. Water Rockets

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perkindo

How about a hydraulic ram pump? It would have moving parts but no power required. Well... no electricity I should say. Not sure if you could shrink it down enough for your use case though. I've never seen one that used anything smaller than 1" pipe.

Anonymous

I wonder if it has similar characteristics as an electrical solar panel where you will get an Open Circuit Voltage (Pressure) and Short Circuit Current (Flow) with some Maximum Power Point in the middle. I'm willing to bet it will. Cool project!

Ben Gruver

I think that's actually one of the cooler things I've seen you make. awesome stuff :)

Anonymous

Just saw t on YouTube, nice one. I liked the idea of the reservoir, still septical about being able to bring water up a hill but that is just me :)

Anonymous

You know i had a similar idea with the contrasting black white hot cold tubing system for potential solar powered salt water distillation. Would love to see if you could adapt that for such an result.

CodysLab

The guy across the street actually found me on reddit, he is a part time cop.

CodysLab

I catually have made one on my channel before here is a link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgEvNCfDzzs" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgEvNCfDzzs</a>

Anonymous

Maybe if you added radiators to the tubes, that would help speed it up? I guess you could also use really thins tubes to change the volume to surface area ratio. You could also use copper heat pipes which are water-filled to exchange the temperature from the top to the bottom. You would have to insulate the parts of the heat pipe that don't touch the reservoirs, but it would be doable. Also, you wouldn't have to connect each top reservoir to each bottom reservoir, you should be able to connect all top reservoirs to all bottom reservoirs, this would reduce the full length heat pipe to a single one, and it shouldn't reduce efficiency.

Anonymous

It would be interesting to see experimentation with different materials that have different thermal conductivity properties aswell as different solar response (like color diferences) on both the hot and cold sides of the pump

Anonymous

Copper on the back side of the pump would resolve much of the inefficiency in cooling.