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I'm sure I don't understand the scale of this. I would however think that you can bring huge industrial pumps and do some plumbing to a suitable place to dump t
by hvidgaard 8y ago
I'm sure I don't understand the scale of this. I would however think that you can bring huge industrial pumps and do some plumbing to a suitable place to dump the water and turn them on. Holland once send 7 million ton a day of pumping capacity to England to help them out. Could that not make a serious impact on the water levels in the cave?
- cr1895 8y agoMy suspicion is that it isn't so much pumping capacity that's the issue but complexity.
- bradstewart 8y agoIndustrial scale pumps certainly exist, but they aren't exactly small and easily portable. I'm not familiar with the one Holland sent England, but I suspect it was pre-assembled on a ship? The highest capacity pumps in New Orleans can move roughly 10,000 gallons a second, but they require a supply "hose" that's ~8-10 feet in diameter to reach that volume. You'd need to get an enormous hose to a low point of the cave system, which may not be near the entrance. Then there's the question of what to do with the water you pump out. Maybe there's a river nearby that can absorb it? It is doable, but it's neither simple, not particularly quick.
- grkvlt 8y agoAlso, the pumps have to be at the lowest point, pushing the water up - a siphon has a maximum height that a vacuum can draw water up of around 10m.[0] You can't just stick the pump at the entrance and then shove a pipe hundreds of meters down the cave system, you need to take the pump down there and run the hose back to the outside. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphon
- hvidgaard 8y agoI did not think of that.