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: Den (dewhitton) wrote,
2007-03-23 10:59:00

Den
dewhitton
2007-03-23 10:59:00

Mood: contemplative

Customer Query

Customer: You build automated water tanker fill stations, right?
Me: Yep! We've built them for mines.
C: Good. We have Euclids with 200 tonne* tanks we use to spray the roads.
Me: That won't be a problem, we can build to suit.
C: But there's a power problem. The fill stations will have to use gravity to move the water.
Me: That's still not a problem. We've built gravity-fed systems before.
C: And the tankers have to fill in less than 5 minutes.
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: (grabs calculator. 200,000/300=667 litres/second)
Me: Riiiight.

Over half a tonne of water per second. Fed by gravity. Time to talk to a hydraulic engineer.

*200,000 litres

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