Ruff's Low Pressure Air Pump Diagram

Ruff's Low air Pressure Pump Idea

With the need to make your own electricity, comes the need to store a source of power to create it. Wind and solar are two ways to power your electricity making unit, but what happens at night with no wind?

Store your power in the form of air pressure and air tanks (or balloon bladders).

That means you have to create the air pressure to put into the tanks or the balloons. Most 12 volt air pumps require way too much power for the small amount of air pressure they deliver. That is because these devices are focused on creating higher pressures.

Whereas the low pressure pump is concentrating on efficiency.

The pump idea I have is to use the weight of water, isolated, and inside a tube. Since water is heavier than air, the "baggie" full of water sits at the bottom of the tube. If the tube is sealed, and has a release valve (to let air escape), the unit will create air pressure when the tube is inverted.

When the valve is opened to let air escape, the "baggie" full of water now falls to the floor of the tube again. That escaping air is diverted to your storage balloons (or air tank if you prefer).

To balance the system, the Air/Water Tubes are placed on a center hollow rail (12 of them) equally spaced at angles 12 o'clock, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. This allows the unit to have equal balance at all times, plus 12 times the air pressure generation capability.

The center rail is rotated in a clock wise rotation, at slow speed, by hand, solar, wind, or hydro.

"Baggies" full of water can be replaced by some other weight that will not allow air to escape between itself and the tube walls, yet remain "movable".

This is the rudimentary idea, and hopefully some engineers will come along, laugh for a moment, then explore this idea. I give my idea free to the World in hopes of better ecology.

Peace Out, The Compusician

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