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Heron's Fountain | some history & science for you this morning
Hero of Alexandria also known as Heron of Alexandria probably 1st or 2nd century AD) was a Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in Alexandria during the Roman era. He has been described as the greatest experimentalist of antiquity and a representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition Heron studied the pressure of air and steam, described the first steam engine, and built toys that would spurt water, one of them known as Herons fountain. Various versions of Herons fountain are used today in physics classes as a demonstration of principles of hydraulics and pneumatics.
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That looks suspiciously close to a Perpetuum mobile
yes very close, if in a true closed system it probably would be. with evaporation it would eventually need a top off in fluids, but aside from that, yes it is perpetual.
No, perpetuum mobile doesn't exist, no matter how closed your system is. The fluid still has friction with the pipes which will eventually lead to a drop in pressure and the ceasing of the cycle.
Technically gravity is constantly adding energy to the system so it's not truly self-sustaining, but it's pretty close. But what's up with the Wikipedia/ai-style huge block of text?
Gravity is not adding anything. https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/mobile/2014/01/08/since-gravity-is-unlimited-can-we-use-it-as-an-infinite-energy-source/
Oh duh, right. It has to fight gravity to go up the straw to the top