Timeline for Using capillary action to bring water up to flying cities
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| Sep 3, 2017 at 20:16 | comment | added | Willk | @Garret Gang: I am glad you are using the word "hairball" enough that your autocorrect chooses it! | |
| Sep 3, 2017 at 16:37 | comment | added | Pliny | @will, it's because the gravity difference is not enough to overcome waters attraction to the tube it is in. The point where the force applied by suction from gravity is, hairball to be below the start of the capillary tube. | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 0:46 | comment | added | Willk | You could have a tube which filled itself as a capillary tube, and then use it to continue to pump water through. At which point it is just a tube under your pump. I tried to use capillarity to move water to the top of a large cap tube, then the tiniest cap tube ever to be a self starting siphon from the top of the large tube. The self starting siphon tube filled but did not drain. Water at the top of a capillary tube does not count as being higher, it would seem. | |
| Jul 22, 2017 at 11:39 | vote | accept | Zblouite | ||
| Jul 21, 2017 at 21:01 | comment | added | Zblouite | addition : And if not, then I think i'll opt for catchment vessels being pumped. I've already thought about a design using copper cloud net, it's an option I would pick. | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 20:42 | comment | added | Zblouite | Self-starting siphon.. interesting, might re-use the idea for some events in the lore of the world. Besides, if I get it good, capillarity on its own isn't suffisent to drag the water up to the city, but if there's kind of vacuum, or electric pump, to pump the water out of the capillary tubes, it would do the job ? | |
| Jul 21, 2017 at 19:58 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |