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To: Simon Foxx

There are about 8 gallons per cubic foot iirc. At 50,000cfs that is 400,000 gallons or3,200,000 pounds per second moving at 20mph for a low estimate and you have an unbelievable amount of energy. Nothing we can make can withstand such force for an extended period of time.


7 posted on 02/12/2017 7:00:56 PM PST by LukeL
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To: LukeL

“Nothing we can make can withstand such force for an extended period of time.”

not true, they can plug the spillway with CO2


24 posted on 02/12/2017 7:14:59 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%fe)
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