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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

Date: 23 Mar 2007 00:02 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sinboy.livejournal.com
You just need to change the gravitational constant of the universe. I saw it on Star Trek, TNG.

Date: 23 Mar 2007 01:32 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com
If you mention reversing the polarity, I will have to hurt you.

Date: 23 Mar 2007 01:47 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chezmax
No, but perhaps if we change the field harmonics...

Date: 23 Mar 2007 02:39 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sinboy.livejournal.com
No, but you might need to polarize the reverse baryometric oscilation on the Feynman-Lehrer comedion overthuster.

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