Customer Query

[den]

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

Comments

[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

That's a lotta water in a country in the middle of a drought. Can't help but ask how come they need them to fill so fast? Are they using them for fighting fires?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The site is in Weipa. Water isn't a problem, but cyclones are.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Keeping down the Dust Devils, are they?