Idea: Pump water to a basin 10 feet above ground

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Have the teams design a system to pump say a bathtub full of water into a container 10 feet above the ground without the benefit of motors.

-- Rick Gray (rgray@penn.com), April 02, 2001

Answers

Hand pump vs. wind pump!?

-- Stephen A. Binion (Stephenbinion@hotmail.com), April 03, 2001.

Suction pump vs, parabolic pump (used in hospitals and probably spelled correctly).

-- Dan Denney (rustrenegades@hotmail.com), April 03, 2001.

how about a modified archemedies(?) screw(s) like wass used at the hanging gardens of babylon

-- tim (milehiharley@hotmail.com), April 04, 2001.

water wheel ....

-- roger (ramjet@hotmail.com), April 04, 2001.

Inject air in a submerged tube. Like an aquarium filter it will raise water to any height you want.

-- Don Denhardt (desulfator@yahoo.com), January 23, 2002.


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