Not enough pressure I would imagine.

but they use 'free falling' water in places like electric mountain in snowdon?

And it takes more energy to pump the water up than you get when it's flowing downhill.

The problem is that's the whole world's supply of the special green liquid used in one experiment.

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So....why cant we scale this up and chuck a turbine in there?

Because of science- it doesn't work.

Either that's a trick and something is pumping it or trick photography

Or if it works it will be heat engine, perhaps powered by the liquid changing temperature and making it expand and contract. It might be cooling as it evaporates

What it isn't is perpetual motion

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Looks like its a pump in the clamp

Pump in the bottom clamp as the first water through is clear.

It's Robert Boyle's self filling flask. Boyle was a pioneer of science and probably devised it as paradox, the resolution of which would improve understanding. Boyle lived from 1627 to 1691 so if it had any chance of actually working, somebody would have managed it in over 323 years.

Either that's a trick and something is pumping it or trick photography

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Methane is the future.

It's Robert Boyle's self filling flask. Boyle was a pioneer of science and probably devised it as paradox, the resolution of which would improve understanding. Boyle lived from 1627 to 1691 so if it had any chance of actually working, somebody would have managed it in over 323 years.

I assume that's a joke