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You'd need to be able to deal with peak-flow to some extent.
by rocqua 7y ago
You'd need to be able to deal with peak-flow to some extent.
- jacquesm 7y agoEither he's already worked that in (20K cubic meters per second) or we can correct for it, the normal 'debiet' is about 600 cubic meters per second, the annual average is 2200, the peaks observed are about 12K.
- jacquesm 7y agoAnother big river to count with is the Waal, which does about 3/4 of that and then there are the Lek, the Maas and the Schelde, all of which are yet another doubling. So there would be a substantial amount of energy involved here.
- rocqua 7y agoI'd say the pump capacity and maintenance would be a bigger hurdle than the energy involved.
- jacquesm 7y agoThe largest pumps we have right now do about 250 cubic meters per second. https://deafsluitdijk.nl/projecten/vergroten-waterafvoer/hoe/ https://deafsluitdijk.nl/projecten/vergroten-waterafvoer/hoe... I'd say that that is manageable.