Big Blackout in the Big Apple!!! Is the Tiki Ohana okay? - Beyond Tiki

T tikifish Member Toronto,Canada Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2720	T tikifish Posted posted on Mon, Aug 18, 2003 6:51 AM The Straight Dope sets things straight on high rise toilet physics (this example is the Sears Tower. Not quite the Saucer house, but the same principle applies). "The real challenge in Sears Tower was not so much getting the water down--after all, gravity does most of the work--as getting it up there in the first place. Street pressure is only good for the first four or five floors in an ordinary building. Sears has a series of pumps and tanks located in the basement, the 31st floor, the 64th floor, and the 88th floor. Water is pumped up under high pressure from one tank to the next, and then drains to the faucets in bathrooms and other facilities below. A few fixtures operate directly off the high-pressure line by means of pressure-relief valves."

The Straight Dope sets things straight on high rise toilet physics (this example is the Sears Tower. Not quite the Saucer house, but the same principle applies).

"The real challenge in Sears Tower was not so much getting the water down--after all, gravity does most of the work--as getting it up there in the first place. Street pressure is only good for the first four or five floors in an ordinary building. Sears has a series of pumps and tanks located in the basement, the 31st floor, the 64th floor, and the 88th floor. Water is pumped up under high pressure from one tank to the next, and then drains to the faucets in bathrooms and other facilities below. A few fixtures operate directly off the high-pressure line by means of pressure-relief valves."

Post #48227 by tikifish on Mon, Aug 18, 2003 6:51 AM