Posted by NCWayne on September 26, 2012 at 09:07:49 from (69.40.232.132):
In Reply to: Re: Real stupid posted by paul on September 26, 2012 at 06:47:08:
For many people it may be hard to imagine due to the scale. I remember in one of my posts someone said something about how much water it would take to irrigate one acre of land. Well, one acre foot of land is 326,000 gallons of water. They currently make engine driven, portable pumps that will move over 3000 GPM. That being the case let's just go with a 3000 GPM pump and see what it will do. So, divide 326,000 gallons by 3000 gallons and you get approximately 108.6 minutes, divided that by 60 for hours and you get 1.81. So, in just under 2 hours one of these 10 inch portable pumps can cover 1 acre of your farm in a foot of water. Carry that out and it can put 1 inch over 12 acres, 1/2 inch over 24 acres, 1/4 inch over 48 acres. Let the thing run for a 24 hour stretch and you can put 1/4 inch of water on 1152 acres. Most engines, even on these large pumps aren't going to use that much fuel per hour, so lets say 2 GPH just to be safe. At that your looking at 48 gallons for a 24 hour run time so even at the current price of diesel your providing the irrigation water for 1152 acres for 200 per day. If you had an electrical service and could power the pump with a motor vs an engine, the cost would probably be even less.
Granted these numbers are an ideal and there will always be losses, etc to calculate into any large scale project like this. Still even with some losses calculated in you can clearly see that using a portable pump (and that's just a 10 inch, not the 12 inch) that you can easily provide water to well over 1000 acres quite easily once the piping and other infrastructure is in place.
I think the big problem, ultimately, is way to many people don't understand the BIG concept and are so prone to thinking small that they can't see that even a BIG project is always going to be a series of small projects. Granted none of this could be done overnight, but then again the millions of miles of storm water, drinking water, waste water, gas lines, power lines, phone lines, cable lines, etc, etc, etc, weren't alld one in a day or a week, or a year either.......Thing is they were done because we wanted them to be.
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