Jimski999 wrote:The pictures Bill posted on page 4 look like 42" pipe and made from Spun Cast Iron and are Collar and Spigot type joints which are usually sealed with a rubber gasket. This is standard pipe for water mains used throughout Europe and would be used shoreside while the undersea section would be welded. It wouldn't take much energy to move the water through the line as water finds its own level so if the discharge was lower than the filling point, the head of water would push the water through the line. Much of the UK's electricity comes from France under the channel and also fuel for after the D Day landings was pumped from refineries as far north as Scotland across the Channel. A final point to consider is that water absorbs air under high pressure so clearing the line of air is not a great problem to overcome. I'm not advocating for anything one way or another just trying to clarify a few disputed points
Thx for that Jimski.
Cert GB gets some electricity from France.
For those with an interest in WW2 relics, parts of the pipeline that supplied the Perfectly Legal D-Day Invasion with fuel can be seen at Shanklin Chine on the IoW, England. We've visited a couple of times. Very interesting exhibition on the project there.
... but back to "kktc su temin projesi"...
We know that there are works underway to expand the reservoir at Occupied Panagra and we also know that there are works to upgrade some parts of the very leaky water distribution system in "trnc". That these works are going on is not in contention. Further, it isn't in contention that there may be transport of water in tankers to the expanded reservoir from Turkey.
What is in contention is the cross-sea pipeline, which will not be of welded together iron pipes.
The claim is that it will be 70+ kms of 1.8m diameter HDPE tubing of 10cms wall thickness suspended at a depth of 250m from floats and anchored with tethers to anchors on the sea-bed a 1000m below.
