Saturday, December 27, 2008

Water Storage Without a tank or Reservoir

The basic unit is described as follows. A one inch water pipe is set up perpendicular using guy wires to hold it from falling over. A water pipe that comes from a water source is buried and connected the sprinkler pipe. A fine mist sprinkler is attached to the top of the sprinkler pipe. When ever the temperature is below freezing for twelve hours or more, the water is turned on. When the temperature goes above freezing the water is turned off. This would most likely happen in December and January. It would work better at an higher elevation. The purpose is to make ice, not snow. Test would be conducted to determine the optimum flow to create the most ice per day. It may be possible to create one foot of ice per day. Over the period of two months the ice could be 60 feet high. Possibly hold 100,000 gallons of water. This would be built over a rubber pond liner that would keep the water from sinking into the ground. The water from the melting ice would be channeled into pipes for irrigation purposes. Ten units built together would store 1,000,000 gallons of water. One wonders how big an ice pile would have to be to last until it begins to freeze again the following winter. One sees a lot of ice from sprinklers on the the farms in the spring and late fall. How much ice would there be in one day if it were below freezing for 24 hours?
This could be done at parks and then carved into interesting sculptures. Or create tunnels, rooms, or any other mammoth design.

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