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by timonoko 1584 days ago
You dig a hole and when the water flows into it, you will get Free Energy. Thereafter you empty it with windmill-powered pump and repeat.

Water comes from the sea or large lake

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Yes, but where would water come from? What you are describing is regular pumped-hydro storage. It uses two reservoirs with different elevations. It works well when there are two naturally occurring reservoirs with elevation differences. You are suggesting to create low-elevation reservoir artificially by digging a hole. It would be very expensive because hole would need to be either very deep or very large.
How is the Underwater Cavity different from Underground Cavity? I don't get it.
Underwater Cavity doesn't require digging a hole. It's just a concrete sphere that's lowered deep underwater.