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They presumably have a set of complex constraints on cooling towers. A hyperboloid fullfills them with less material than a cylinder.
by labawi 7y ago
They presumably have a set of complex constraints on cooling towers. A hyperboloid fullfills them with less material than a cylinder.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoCongratulations, you've repeated my question exactly while saying absolutely nothing else. I strongly suspect that they're talking about an actual mathematical minimization result, such as how a sphere minimizes surface area for constant volume, and the journalist just didn't bother to understand what the claim was before repeating half of it.
- labawi 7y agoA two page interlude on cooling tower constraints including functional cooling capabilities, height vs. width tradeoffs, manufacturability, earthquake, sabotage, plane-crash resistance etc. would not improve the article.
- bluntfang 7y agoTake a deep breath. You're getting upset over something that's very evidently implied in the article, which is about pizza. It's not a technical paper, it's a fun exercise using math and simplified real world models.