Yep. Project Plowshares.....drill down 1000m and detonate a 100kt nuclear weapon and you get this:
Posted on 11/01/2023 10:28:56 AM PDT by bitt
The biggest problem confronting Israel in its war on Hamas is how to destroy the Gaza tunnel networks and the terrorist operations therein. Bombing works—mostly—but there’s a better way. Not only would it dramatically reduce Israeli military and Gazan civilian casualties, but it would effectively destroy the tunnel systems for the long term. That solution is to flood the tunnels with seawater from the adjacent Mediterranean.
I worked on the Gaza Strip back in the 1990s. The U.S. government was pouring tens of millions of tax dollars into development assistance there on engineering infrastructure, housing, and related projects. Part of reviewing that work on the ground involved tramping over much of the small territory on foot.
Gaza consists of a strip of beach, back beach, and coastal plain that’s flat to slightly rolling. The territory stretches for about twenty-five miles along the eastern Mediterranean. At its widest, in the south, it’s about seven and a half miles wide; most of it is far narrower, about half of that.
The Gaza tunnel system, mostly constructed over the last forty years, provides Hamas with offensive access to Israel. It also constitutes the terrorist organization’s most formidable defensive redoubt. The tunnels present by far the most difficult logistical problem for Israel in eliminating enemy targets. Open-source maps show at least eleven independent tunnel networks, some nearly adjacent to the sea. The number of independent networks, however, could far exceed that. Hamas claims that the total length of the tunnels is about three hundred miles.
The geography of Gaza argues strongly for the stratagem of flooding the tunnels. It would force the enemy above ground where they can more easily be destroyed, dramatically reduce the Israeli casualties required to accomplish that task and resolve the problem of dealing with parts of the tunnels that are too deep to destroy through bombing. Most importantly, flooding is a permanent or near-permanent solution to the Gaza tunnel problem. Once accomplished, pumping them out enough to be usable again would be both extremely costly and—especially in conjunction with bombing—exceptionally difficult. The timing of executing a flooding strategy is flexible; some could be flooded now, others later, and still others once they’re discovered.
The engineering is straightforward. Egypt flooded thirty-seven cross-border tunnels in southern Gaza back in 2015 in what stands as a practical proof of concept in this location. Seawater from the Mediterranean would be pumped directly into the tunnel openings through short pipelines. While there’s little hydrological head, there is also little topographical relief to deal with in laying the pipe. Large volumes of water are pumped long distances every day, and Israeli water technology is world class.
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That’s a good post .. excellent idea.
My thought is to pump methane into as many tunnels the IDF has access to then ignite it......
Don’t they add mercaptans to natural gas also? Anyway, he mentioned both natural gas and propane.
Better way ? Drill down 1000m and detonate a 100kt nuclear weapon. It would obliterates tunnels for miles. Low impact on the mudslimes too. Nice way to tell the world “we got nuke”.
Yep. Project Plowshares.....drill down 1000m and detonate a 100kt nuclear weapon and you get this:
"Nice tunnels you have there ... be a shame if there was an unexpected sudden earthquake ..."
Then flood the tunnels after.
How many feet would it lower the Mediterranean Sea to accomplish this? Oh, what the heck, let the pumping begin.
Might cause a problem with transiting the Suez Canal though.
I have no idea about other gas lines. I’ve got a 1000 gal propane tank behind my house for my use, and was a volunteer firefighter for 4 years or so in my rural area. Certainly aware of the dangers of propane :-)
I'm lol'ing imagining the world's tallest fountain as the Mediterranean Sea pressure travels up whatever the path of least resistance is in Hamas underground HQ under that hospital.
They started putting odorants such as mercaptan compounds into natural gas (and propane) after the New London School explosion in Texas in 1937. The school was heated with natural gas from local oil wells and a leak under the school let a lot of gas build up before it exploded one afternoon, killing around 300 children and teachers.
He stole my comment from some days ago. Flood the tunnels with the Med!
I suggested gasoline; flood it and light it up!
We must remember they are upwind of our jewish friends. Which alas rules out my Iowa solution of filling them with hog sewage. It also rules the suggestion I’ve seen multiple times online since the invasion of just nuking Gaza.
Yes, the nuke em til they glow, and shoot em in the dark option is off the table in this case. Unfortunately.
Add some UV dye so drones can pick up when/where the tunneling resumes.
They should make real and many fake tunneling sensors and flow them with the water, at least for psyops.
Genius! Pipeline it from Telaviv or US pig farms.
I had the same thought - I imagine things are getting a bit pungent in Gaza after 3 weeks of no power
It is my belief that the Israeli military already knows where the hostages can be found in these tunnels.
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