Gravity Powered Rail, Road and Runway transportation systems
First Claim
1. An apparatus comprising of a set of networked Gravity Power Towers, each having a set of vertically moving extremely heavy masses called Power Masses and an intelligent variable main gear system;
- the said Gravity Power Towers interconnected with one or more similar Gravity Power Towers by High Speed Power Transmission Cables, end-less, roller supported and sag-free, the said Cables having own gear systems at either Gravity Tower and the said gear system gets engaged or disengaged with the said intelligent variable main gear apparatus of the Gravity Power Tower as per direction of the intelligent microprocessor actions; and
the said High Speed Power Transmission Cables capable of gripping a rolling mass with built in microprocessors based intelligence and communicating with Gravity Power Towers;
the rolling masses running over and along transport mode pathways like existing but suitably modified rail having a hour glass shaped space frame supported on two standard rails by bogies with pair of wheels running over two rails fixed on either side of an opening at the bottom member of a rectangular box structure housing the High Speed Power Transmission cable and the bogies, road with a middle trench carrying the High Speed Power transmission cable and electromagnetic coupling capability with the road vehicle and runways having a middle of the runway a trench to house the High Speed Power transmission cable, extending from one Gravity Power Tower to another, the said pathways generally in a horizontal plane;
the said Gravity Power Towers with built in microprocessor based intelligence and inter communication among towers and rolling masses, the microprocessor intelligence controlling gear ratio and direction of the variable a gear system thus inter connecting the vertical motions of the said heavy power masses in the Gravity Power Tower and the rolling units, causing automatic transportation of rolling mass units attached to the power transmission cables traveling on the transport pathways, in such a manner that the vertically moving heavy masses called Power Masses, typically of the order of ten times that of the rolling mass unit, in the said Gravity Power Towers and the rolling mass units can run eternally, on the pathways, starting from one gravity Power Tower to stopping at another, practically almost entirely based on the gravity with the least input of external energy to cover friction losses in rolling and gears, constantly balancing the variation in potential energy of the set of masses in Gravity Power Tower with inverse variation of kinetic energy of set of the connected rolling masses, the rolling mass units drawing the needed tractive effort from the Power Masses in a controlled manner to accelerate away from a Gravity Power Tower, but the set of Power Masses gain back the lost potential energy by taking away the kinetic energy of other rolling mass units approaching the Gravity Power Tower, thus stopping the said approaching rolling mass units while raising back the said Power Masses;
the shortfall in recovering the height lost of the Power masses because of frictional losses alone needs external energy, thus converting existing rail, road or runway in to an automated, practically perpetual and self-sustained linearly oscillating Gravity Powered transportation systems, once set off with a one time initial charge of potential energy of the sets of Heavy Power Masses, thus effectively saving a major portion of currently used energy in the transportation of people and goods.
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Abstract
A set of Gravity Power Towers with built in intelligence and connected with each other with a transport guide ways or path ways for the mass to be transported on wheels, form the transport network for transporting people and cargo point to point, powered by gravity. A Gravity Power Tower is a gravity based embodiment for storing substantial potential energy in a number of relatively heavy and vertically moving masses, embodied as Power Mass Modules; release the said potential energy in a controlled manner using a continuously variable intelligent gear system and high speed traveling power transmission cable; the force so applied to accelerate at a fraction of acceleration due to gravity or sustain at steady speed any rolling mass of relatively of a fraction of the size of the masses in said Power Mass module; along a generally horizontal or graded path way; and when the said rolling mass needs to come to halt, the embodiment converts the kinetic energy back to augmenting the potential energy of the vertically moving masses in the Power Mass Module; any shortfall to gain back original status of the potential energy of the masses is made up using external energy like electrical motors; thus the embodiment creates new gravity powered elevated and underground railway, gravity powered road way and gravity powered runway at airports.
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1. An apparatus comprising of a set of networked Gravity Power Towers, each having a set of vertically moving extremely heavy masses called Power Masses and an intelligent variable main gear system;
- the said Gravity Power Towers interconnected with one or more similar Gravity Power Towers by High Speed Power Transmission Cables, end-less, roller supported and sag-free, the said Cables having own gear systems at either Gravity Tower and the said gear system gets engaged or disengaged with the said intelligent variable main gear apparatus of the Gravity Power Tower as per direction of the intelligent microprocessor actions; and
the said High Speed Power Transmission Cables capable of gripping a rolling mass with built in microprocessors based intelligence and communicating with Gravity Power Towers;
the rolling masses running over and along transport mode pathways like existing but suitably modified rail having a hour glass shaped space frame supported on two standard rails by bogies with pair of wheels running over two rails fixed on either side of an opening at the bottom member of a rectangular box structure housing the High Speed Power Transmission cable and the bogies, road with a middle trench carrying the High Speed Power transmission cable and electromagnetic coupling capability with the road vehicle and runways having a middle of the runway a trench to house the High Speed Power transmission cable, extending from one Gravity Power Tower to another, the said pathways generally in a horizontal plane;
the said Gravity Power Towers with built in microprocessor based intelligence and inter communication among towers and rolling masses, the microprocessor intelligence controlling gear ratio and direction of the variable a gear system thus inter connecting the vertical motions of the said heavy power masses in the Gravity Power Tower and the rolling units, causing automatic transportation of rolling mass units attached to the power transmission cables traveling on the transport pathways, in such a manner that the vertically moving heavy masses called Power Masses, typically of the order of ten times that of the rolling mass unit, in the said Gravity Power Towers and the rolling mass units can run eternally, on the pathways, starting from one gravity Power Tower to stopping at another, practically almost entirely based on the gravity with the least input of external energy to cover friction losses in rolling and gears, constantly balancing the variation in potential energy of the set of masses in Gravity Power Tower with inverse variation of kinetic energy of set of the connected rolling masses, the rolling mass units drawing the needed tractive effort from the Power Masses in a controlled manner to accelerate away from a Gravity Power Tower, but the set of Power Masses gain back the lost potential energy by taking away the kinetic energy of other rolling mass units approaching the Gravity Power Tower, thus stopping the said approaching rolling mass units while raising back the said Power Masses;
the shortfall in recovering the height lost of the Power masses because of frictional losses alone needs external energy, thus converting existing rail, road or runway in to an automated, practically perpetual and self-sustained linearly oscillating Gravity Powered transportation systems, once set off with a one time initial charge of potential energy of the sets of Heavy Power Masses, thus effectively saving a major portion of currently used energy in the transportation of people and goods. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
- the said Gravity Power Towers interconnected with one or more similar Gravity Power Towers by High Speed Power Transmission Cables, end-less, roller supported and sag-free, the said Cables having own gear systems at either Gravity Tower and the said gear system gets engaged or disengaged with the said intelligent variable main gear apparatus of the Gravity Power Tower as per direction of the intelligent microprocessor actions; and
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