Patent ID: 7770331

Claim:
A hydraulic power system for use with a weighted object comprising: the weighted object includes a weighted platform; an electric generating equipment carried by the weighted platform: a plurality of hydraulic support cylinders constructed and arranged to support the weighted object; a vertical guide that maintains vertical orientation of the weighted object; a fluid reservoir to retain hydraulic fluid; at least one conduit configured and dimensioned to provide fluid communication between the fluid reservoir and the plurality of hydraulic support cylinders so as to elevate and lower the weighted object during use; a motor driven generator operatively connected to the cylinders that generates electricity during a fluid discharge from the cylinders; and wherein during use the generator acts as a pump to deliver fluid from the reservoir, through the conduit and to the cylinders so as to elevate the weighted object a predetermined distance in order to create sufficient potential energy which can then be stored for retrieval and thereafter utilized as a power source.