Backyard Aquaponics
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Me too... water flowing uphill.... this I got to see....

+1 for that Rupert

Getting water to flow uphill is easy... in the 1600s Escher drew a sketch of how to do it!

Hmmm, add some plants to the channels, fish to the tank, and you have an AP system too

And with good aeration from the waterfall... And with power generation from the waterwheel...

i was wrong it did not worked once pressurized it only pulled up water from heat transfer IE heated FT to tap water filled upper FT sorry. Ill go eat crow now

Hey... at least you'll be able to poach the crow... now you've heated the water...

Not a problem - takes a man (or woman ) to come back and admit mistakes. And you learned quite a bit I'd say so s'all good.

*grins* but I was SOOO looking forward to that video.

About the only way you'll manage this is if you seal the top (or bottom) chamber.

If both are open to the atmosphere you've got buckleys.

I was going to suggest he needed to seal the top as a joke, but then i wondered if that would even work, then i thought "hmmm i might look like an idiot if it still didnt work."

if this did work, which i doubt, it would actually make a good extra, free to run filter.

Which is fine, until the water gets too hot, since you'd have to keep heating the water to keep a thermosyphon going - the moving water is always losing energy due to friction... otherwise it is a perpetual motion machine!

It is still not a perpetual motion machine because it needed some energy input to start and it needs energy input in the form of heat.
Even if this did work the way he had it, with no heat.... its still not perpetual.

Stick a towel in a basin half filled with water and just let the edge of it overhang a bit, then wonder why your floor is wet.

like a wicking bed?

Yes, water will flow uphill given the right conditions.