Could A Hydroelectric Power Station Be Created Out At Sea?

[crankfwd]

Okay, I've got another idea about hydroelectric power that I could use some help with. Imagine you have an enormous funnel that is 1km in diameter at the top. This enormous funnel is held in place by four hollow towers (that are open at the top), that are cemented into the sea bed. The top of the funnel is just below sea level so that it is always half full of seawater. The spout of the tunnel goes about 250m down, where it splits four ways into tubes that feed the four hollow towers. Where the water feeds into the tower there is a hydroelectric turbine. The water keeps on falling after going through the turbine and falls into the hollow tower

[beso]

crankfwd//Look, I know you want to section me off in your closed mind along with anti-vaxxers and 5G mast burners, but you're not just barking up the wrong tree, you're in the wrong forest! Okay?//

I'm trying to decide if your arrogance exceeds your stupidity. It's difficult because you are very high on the scale for both.

//You were on 'small teams that designed and built small hydro turbines', so basically, you needed help just to make a water wheel for a garden stream. //

Perhaps you could tell us what you have successfully designed and built yourself.

[Peter Pedant]

hi boys
play nicely

beso- oh dear. Let me comfort that bruised ego by stating that you probably know lots more about engineering, mechanics etc than I do.

yes he does
I do
NJ does

NJ has proven no nett gain see above
actually it is nett loss - some is wasted as heat in an irreversible process which this is

you may well say - oh I dont think it is

then do a mock up - model - and as we predict - it wont work !

[Peter Pedant]

and if it works ..... you will be very rich indeed

[My own disappointment is that I sought out Carnot's work
and you said " oh great, fank - oo - will read etc how good of you"
and you havent gone near it have you ?]

[and that readers is why Beso and myself and a few other know much more about engineering tthermodynamics than you do ....]

anyway - build one ! show us!

[aelmpvw]

pp has it with 'it won't work'

[crankfwd]

Beso - chill. You know much more than me about all this. Conceded.
PP- I didn't realise there was a sell-by date on your download. Also, Hydroelectric systems lose energy through heat, friction, sound etc so not a problem.
Ael- thanks
I sought out the science section of this website to spitball this idea. I thought we had got to the point that my problem is expelling the water into higher pressure water before my tower becomes a tank.
It seems that I can lose a tenth of the water with a sneaky ram pump. Now, as for the rest of the water expulsion. Could I use a Tesla valve? Do Tesla valves work better when spinning? Could I expel aerated water, then normal water in a pulse jet? Is it better to expel water downwards, sideways etc? These are the kind of out of the box (not out of my mind) suggestions I would like to discuss. So, if you don't think it will work due to the laws of thermodynamics, then don't join in, I mean that with the greatest of respect. But if you have some knowledge of Tesla valves etc then please join in.

[THECORBYLOON]

God, is this going still?

[New Judge]

//Is it better to expel water downwards, sideways etc?//

Your need to ask that question demonstrates that you did not learn basic Physics at school. You should not be troubling yourself with these projects of yours as you're wasting your time.

[crankfwd]

Ahhh NJ helpful as never.