Hydrostatic pressure to kinetic energy conversion system

A method of operation of a hydrostatic pressure to kinetic energy conversion system, wherein the hydrostatic pressure to kinetic energy conversion system includes:

• a hydraulic head water column;
• a lower end of the water column diverging to a pair of pressure channels;
• a valve system interfacing the water column and the pair of pressure channels so that hydrostatic pressure from the water column alternately pressurizes each pressure channel of the pair of pressure channels;
• pistons;
• racks forced by the pistons to act oppositely to rotate a driveshaft therebetween in alternating opposite directions of rotation;
• and
• furling bladders within the pair of pressure channels which forcibly unfurl under the hydrostatic pressure to force the pistons, wherein:
• for a first stroke, valves, of the valve system, of a first channel of the pair of pressure channels are open and valves, of the valve system, of a second channel of the pair of pressure channels are closed so that the hydrostatic pressure causes a first bladder, of the furling bladders, in the first channel to unfurl to force a first piston of the pistons;
• each channel of the pair of pressure channels comprises a control valve and a nonreturn valve;
• the nonreturn valve is downstream from the control valve;
• and the conversion system further includes a siphon between the control valve and the nonreturn valve;
• and
• the siphon is operated to reduce the hydrostatic pressure between the control valve and the nonreturn valve to assist closing of the nonreturn valve.