pberrett

Hi all I am new to these forums. I came here because I had an idea for generating electricity but needed someone to tell me whether it would be feasible or not. First let me preface my idea by saying that I am aware of the conservation of energy rule. However I wonder if one can use other forces to kind of get around it. Here's the idea. First I build a large plant at the bottom of Mount Everest. The plant runs on electricity and turns a body of water into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis. I now dispense with the oxygen and send the hydrogen up the side of Mount Everest. I'm not sure how to get it up there - perhaps fill a blimp and the blimp tows a heavy object up the side of Mount Everest. The idea though is that as hydrogen is lighter than air I should be able to get it up the mountain and have it do some work in the process of getting there i.e. driving an electricity generator. Alternatively the heavy object (water?) I drag up to the Mount can be used to drive a turbine or other electricity generator. So I have made some electricity. Finally on top of the Mount I burn the hydrogen and use the heat to make steam which drives a turbine and makes electricity. The burning of the hydrogen also produces water as a biproduct which I feed down pipes down the side of the mountain and make more electricity (hydro electric). My question simply is - will I make more electricity than I will consume in the above set of processes? If so is this a viable, pollution free way of making electricity? cheers Peter