I LIKE TO GO A LITTLE OVERBOARD SOMETIMES..............hehe....
Note: This is just looking at one of the pistons in the chain. There would be a continuous succession of pistons, each undergoing this process.
locking mechanism
process cycle
The pistons won't actually be oriented like this, i've just done it this way in this animation in order to make it easier to visualize the overall process.
This was the original idea I had about using extreme deep water pressure to try and produce energy by compressing a nitrogen filled piston. From here it evolved into the vertical piston chain idea with many interlinked pistons that form a conveyor belt-like system.......as seen above.
This is the original original idea which is basically a large tank that would be open when it's dropped to the bottom of the ocean, then it would close once it hit the bottom and then be lifted back up. At sea level It would essentially be a pressurized water bomb, at which point the pressure would be released in a controlled way to somehow produce energy. This idea was quickly abandoned for more productive ideas.
NOT REAL EDUCATED IN FLUID DYNAMICS, SO THE PHYSICS PROPERTIES THAT I AM ASSUMING FOR THIS IDEA MAY BE WRONG ALTOGETHER
JUST A POSTULATION AT THIS POINT.........IT MAY TAKE MORE ENERGY TO RAISE THE CONTAINER THAN WHAT WOULD BE GENERATED BY THE PRESSURE IN THE CONTAINER