Kinda seems to me that this clown needs to look at a map. It’s over 1400 miles from the Old Control Structure to Lake Powell. What kind of pumps can handle 250,000/gallons per second and maintain that flow for 1400 miles? How big would the diameter of the pipe have to be to handle that kind of load?
And how many times per week would eco-terrorists sabotage the pipeline on behalf of "Mudder Erf" (if it were even able to get past the environmental impact statements necessary to build it)?
I think the highest flow pumps are in the nuclear power field. GPM in the millions, 3000 ft + lift capability, if I’m remembering correctly.
I’d have to do the math and I don’t feel like it but for a comparison the Saturn 5 rocket (bigest to ever fly) burned at little less than 4,000 gallons/second so it would take over 63 Saturn 5’s to pump 250,000 gallons per second.
India build some very similar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkWIE3vXe_A
The friction in the pipe is not the real problem, the real problem is the gain in elevation, which is more than 3,000 feet.
It would be impossible to have a single pipe, because the pressure at the Mississippi end of the pipe would be like the pressure 3,000 feet under the ocean, about 1,300 psi.
That means sections of pipe with open reservoirs and then more pumps along the way to lift the water. The amount of energy required is enormous.