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it would seem not only superdry are struggling, cargo ships are stacking up at the panama canal..
damn climate change..
Sounds like a boutique lager
This has been a known problem since the 1990's.
Not if but when.
That’s not climate change, that’s continental rebound.
..and that's a really dumb statement. Continental rebound is about glacial melt and its effects. Why're the glaciers melting?
Also - Is this really about rebound? The plates in question had no glaciers and even the adjacent plates which had glaciers, had glaciers well away from the zone in question. Usually this means that areas without ice, but which share a land mass actually sink, not rise, so rebound would (if it had any effect at all) actually help the canal.
Can't they just tell the ships to carry their own water and use that to refill the reservoir at the top?
Oceans at each end and there's not enough water.
STW – where (bad) humour goes to die.
FTFY - Sarcasm doesn't convey well in text without some form of assistance
Simple solution, just unload the ships at one end to reduce the draught, transport the goods across on container lorries, then re-load.
Even simpler solution. Just fill in the canal and replace it with a very large conveyer belt running from a dry dock at one end to a dry dock at the other. Load the ships onto the conveyer belt at one end and refloat them at the other.
I've seen that working on the log flume at Alton Towers.
Is there a risk of them taking off?
Does a ship on a conveyor not have to wait for the tide?
Oceans at each end and there’s not enough water.
Most of the canal is really a fresh water lake so you can't just flush sea water through though.
Each passing uses several million litre of fresh water.
Does a ship on a conveyor not have to wait for the tide?
They already do, transit is one direction at a time and there's a difference of a about 10m in height of the tides from one ocean to the other if I remember rightly. (About 1m high to low on the Atlantic side and 10-15 high low difference on the Pacific side I think).
Even simpler solution. Just fill in the canal and replace it with a very large conveyer belt running from a dry dock at one end to a dry dock at the other. Load the ships onto the conveyer belt at one end and refloat them at the other.
This. Just like a super size log flume at Alton towers. Lol,
Why the chuff are they pumping fresh water into a sea to sea canal? Surely they could just pump sea water into it?
Conveyor belts are boring, just install a massive scalextric track and that way ships could travel in either direction at the same time with the added bonus of getting flung out to see as they go round the bend at either end of the track.
Most of the canal is really a fresh water lake so you can’t just flush sea water through though.
Yes I did know that - is there an irony emoji?
Why the chuff are they pumping fresh water into a sea to sea canal?
The sea is where a great deal of fresh water ends up.
This is because all the kids are inside playing computer games instead of playing on the beach and skimming stones. It was all the stones they threw in that kept the sea levels up.
is there an irony emoji?
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Yes, but the Americans don't understand it
Each passing uses several million litre of fresh water.
...no matter how many times you flush it just... won't... go...
They just need to dig down a bit and make the full length of the canal lower than sea level.
Simple solution, just unload the ships at one end to reduce the draught, transport the goods across on container lorries, then re-load.
Now where have I heard that idea before?
They just need to dig down a bit and make the full length of the canal lower than sea level.
Then all the boats would get stuck in the middle, they can't sail up hill
Again, check out the Bude Canal... 🙂
thols2
Full MemberEven simpler solution. Just fill in the canal and replace it with a very large conveyer belt running
Pff, the ships will never get off the ground that way