Quote Originally Posted by netsecsys View Post
For instance, my wife and I are working towards purchasing south facing property on a slope. Towards the top of the property, I will use a solar pump on my well which will fill (3) 1500 gallon cisterns. We will have (3) 1500 gallon cisterns near the bottom of the property. We will run PVC piping between the two sets of cisterns and have a harris microhydro generator just in from of the bottom set to generate energy to a battery bank. Using a water ram (which does not need electricity) we will send the water back up to the upper set of cisterns and the process will start again. It will cost me a bunch of overtime at work but for me the benefit of not relying upon the "system", it is well worth it.
How is what you are describing not an over-unity device? In other words, it sounds like you're describing perpetual motion. A water ram requires a large supply of flowing water, only some portion of which is pumped. If you were trying to harness a flowing stream coming down a hill to return some of that water back up, it would work. I don't see how it'll work with two cisterns -- and certainly not in any way that will generate continuous power without violating the third law of thermodynamics.

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