Power production employing buoyancy, gravity and kinetic energy

An apparatus for the production of energy employing buoyancy, gravity and kinetic energy, the apparatus comprising,

• a first pipe comprising a top end and a bottom end, and configured approximately vertically with the top end at a height above ground level;
• a liquid filling the first pipe;
• a plurality of spheres that are hollow, each such sphere configured:
• to fit within the first pipe;
• and,
• to have a weight less than the weight of a volume of the liquid displaced by a sphere in the plurality of spheres when the sphere is submerged within the liquid;
• a second pipe comprising an inbound end and an outbound end, the inbound end flowably connected to the first pipe near the top end of the first pipe and the outbound end configured to allow downward passage of a sphere in the plurality of spheres through the second pipe to exit the outbound end;
• a platform comprising an approximately planar surface, the platform configured:
• in an original position to be impacted on the approximately planar surface by the sphere exiting the outbound end of the second pipe;
• for movement in response to the impact of such sphere;
• and,
• to stop and then return by spring action to the original position after such movement;
• a rotatable flywheel operably connected to the platform to rotate with movement of the platform in response to such impact;
• a sphere injector configured to inject a sphere into the first pipe near the bottom end of the first pipe;
• and,
• a sphere-lifting mechanism configured near the top end of the first pipe and operable to move a sphere into the second pipe.