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To: El Laton Caliente

There and back would be 4 times the distance through more rock and deeper depth, plus a desalination plant and steam driven pumps along with massive lift stations for any deliveries along the way, and it would not be much more than a simple gravity drain?

I’ve worked projects that had similar thoughts for cost estimates.

They didn’t go so well.


133 posted on 07/18/2014 9:51:35 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
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To: thackney

Just thinking out load here (sort of...)

The tunneling would be the major part of the project.

A reflective mirror boiler should make team so reverse osmosis would not be required.

150# or 300# steam should supply most of the power needed.

Effluent steam could be re-superheated and piped to altitude, then condensed for the down hill trip to users.

I still think it is doable and much more realistic and needed than a Gov. Moonbeam train to no where... The 64 billion for the train would be a good start on building it.


137 posted on 07/18/2014 12:25:32 PM PDT by El Laton Caliente (NRA Life Member & www.Gunsnet.net Moderator)
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