On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:05:12 -0600, rw
wrote:

Wolfgang wrote:

However, there is a simpler, cheaper, and much more elegant solution.

Pueblo, being at a considerably greater elevation than, say, Milwaukee, a
pipeline could be constructed to carry water downhill from Pueblo to the
shore of Lake Michigan. The enormous pressure exerted by a 4220 foot head
(~4880 foot altitude at Pueblo - ~580 at Milwaukee) could be used to push
water back through a pipeline from Lake Michigan to Colorado. Thus, a much
smaller number of staged reservoirs would be needed to distribute the water
from Pueblo to the rest of the west, and there is the added advantage of the
4000+ foot elevation gain, which would make the siphoning that much easier
and concomitantly cheaper.

Why would you push water BACK to Colorado? That's nuts. Every foot of
pipeline loses head, depending on the diameter and the current (flow
rate). The loss of head incurs a cost. Another huge cost -- probably the
dominant one -- would be the cost of building a parallel pipeline system.

If the water's in Colorado, already at high elevation, and you need it
there, use it there. Duh.


Wolfgang
who supposes that some people just never will be able to grasp basic
physics.

That's why they come up with crackpot schemes.

OK, OK, OK...here's a much better solution: wetb...er, illegal al...er,
visitors unencumbered by documentation. That loon (no, the other
one...) up in Colorado hates 'em, but maybe if they each were issued a
great big ol' bucket, they could bring a bunch of water with 'em when
they swam the Rio Grande, and he'd like 'em better. And if they knew
they were welcome in Colorado (provided, of course, they came with a
great big ol' bucket of water), more would come. Then, when every human
being what was south of the Texas is now north of Texas, you give 'em
all shovels, dig a big ol' canal between Peebalow and that place in
England with all the flooding, and TA-DA!!! the US and England are best
buddies again. And if there's any water left over, they can keep
digging and dig a canal to the Sahara and then, the radical
Islamofacists will be not only grateful to the US, but all them illegal
aliens, too. JOY TO THE WORLD, LET PEACE RING OUT!!!

HTH,
R