Bowling and Fireworks Power Plant
This is probably the most important drawing. The whole thing resembles a pinball machine from the side and a bowling alley at the top. One simply blasts a cannon type device and catches the 400-500 pound steel ball where gravity pauses it, then brings it over to a chain gear system attached to a turbine which gathers that gravitational energy. About thirty of these devices each blasting a 20 KW explosive, one every minute, would provide a small town with electricity. Boilers could also be used to gather the heat from the blasting. The efficiency of the blast energy alone could be up to 50% based on that of a normal sized cannon and the fact that the barrel is longer. With increase in efficiency from using boilers surrounding the blast chamber kept at maybe 250 to 300 degrees Fahrenheit it is just unknown how efficient this system could truly be without building it. Burrowing the cannons in the ground maybe 30 feet would reduce noise energy to maybe that of an airport. It would sound most like a bottle rocket going off under water. It would be dangerous but any power plant is dangerous. it might look something like a 20 story apartment building with long tubes traveling to the top for the cannonballs to travel up before they pause. It is important to note that this is a normal sized 10-50 MW power plant. It would be no different in dimensions then a coal or gas power plant of the same energy output. in order to use fusion as a fuel in this type of system something enormous has to be constructed, just as with the current laser and plasma fusion experiments, however at very minimal the cost as I will explain in the next drawing.