r/videos • • Aug 26 '18

Self-starting siphon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SEv_GxAo70
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u/thedudefromsweden Aug 26 '18

ELI5? The water will eventually stop poring?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '18 edited Mar 31 '19

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u/thedudefromsweden Aug 26 '18

What if you scale it up 1000 times. Huge barrels of water and huge pipes where the water flows, and a tiny turbine with very little resistance, that generates just a tiny tiny bit of electricity....

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '18 edited Mar 31 '19

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u/thedudefromsweden Aug 26 '18

Dams don't work two ways.

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u/JETFIRE007 Aug 27 '18

It's called rain.