Customer Query
23 March 2007 10:59![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
denCustomer: 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
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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Date: 23 Mar 2007 04:45 (UTC)To start, a blog about it (http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/fire-extinguisher/jetpowered-fire-extinguisher-douses-fires-in-seconds-215604.php)...
And the blocked YouTube clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyGDxglTVgA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo%2Ecom%2Fgadgets%2Ffire%2Dextinguisher%2Fjetpowered%2Dfire%2Dextinguisher%2Ddouses%2Dfires%2Din%2Dseconds%2D215604%2Ephp).
Have the best
-=TK