Can you hold back a car? no

can you pick up a car's petrol tank full of fuel? yes

 

billions of years of energy! And almost halfed the worlds polution levels!!

 

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we have explained to you why this isn't worth it as we can extract all the oil from an oil well very very efficiently. this would not do it efficiently.

 

infact the only use case for this type of pump would be 1 scoop a week or less.

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Don't need the weight though, from a past idea.

 

Though could change the weight for a bar and remove the frame.

 

I also have an idea of using a door in each bucket, a shoot by the engine, spin 300 miles an hour.

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still isn't a good idea.

I need to add a stress spindle/cog above the engine spindle/cog to hold the weight of the chain and buckets.

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and it still won't expand the liftime of an oil field.

 

especially not to 'billions of years'.

 

 

using a chain pump you have to expend more energy to bring up the same amount of oil.

at the moment we use energy to suck up energy until theres no profit in it (takes more energy than we get up).

 

thats only for 1 1/2 miles.

 

my design uses next to no energy and can go down 30-100+ miles.

actually, we don't suck up anything. we pump water DOWN. this has been explained many many times.

 

and it actually uses less energy than yours as you have to deal with the friction of the chain and the fact that the weight of oil on the uptake is not balance by anything on the downtake.

 

not to mention your idea doesn't do anything to increase the amount of extractable oil at all.

 

current pumping systems could go down thousands of miles (if you ignore the impracticalities of drilling in liquid rock) and if the ground was a million miles thick we could still pump from there with the same efficiency as now.

 

quit your trolling.

are you sure they pump water down? theres a lot of weight in a caverns worth of oil.

 

what happens once the water is filled up, what about the oil underneath?

water is heavier than oil. the oil floats to the top so there is no oil underneath.

 

same thing that makes ships float.

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