Reply to: Where are all the water towers

[TestMangler]

It was those environmentalists. They objected to water towers obscuring their view of wind turbines, so now they have to be buried underground.

Wind turbines buried underground ? Now why didn't I think of that.

Another Plan B missed.........

[Pipes]

Don't seem to see those big gas towers any more either - you know, the huge inflatable cylindrical thingies that were sometimes full and sometimes half empty. Going back to my childhood to remember that image though, which may not be accurate.

BG have been slowly decommissioning them as, for the most part, they are no longer required due to the high pressure system now prevelant
The old towers were there to cope with peak demand. Contrary to popular belief the gas in the tower is stored at very little over atomspheric pressure.

With the exception of those that have listed building status, they will continue to slowly disappear from the landscape.

(Who said that the 6 years I contracted for BG in IT were wasted? )

[Wilmslow]

Here is the one close to my St Cyprien marina apartment....

http://images-cdn.holidaylettings.co...=1299013833000

[AtW]

Don't seem to see those big gas towers any more either - you know, the huge inflatable cylindrical thingies that were sometimes full and sometimes half empty. Going back to my childhood to remember that image though, which may not be accurate.

There is a BIG one 0.5 mile away from our office!

[hyperD]

Looks like a failed unexploded SCUD missile from Iraq.

[pacharan]

Some great pics there folks. Keep 'em coming.

Here's a more artistic example:

[Troll]

now they have to be buried underground.

Never a drop of rain on Arrakis

[TimberWolf]

Nice one at Tilehurst visible from the M4

That is pretty.

[mudskipper]

Nice one at Tilehurst visible from the M4

[Wilmslow]

Plenty around the Perpignan area - getting to be my second home these days

They make navigating much easier on a flat area!

[NotAllThere]

It was those environmentalists. They objected to water towers obscuring their view of wind turbines, so now they have to be buried underground.

[CheeseSlice]

In the town where I grew up we had two water towers. They weren't the white concrete kind though.
Being on the coast, the whole town is on a slope and at the top there were two large grass mounds. Effectively these were large metal tanks built on the ground, then covered with earth and grass turf. They didn't look like natural geological features, but they certainly looked better than white concrete.

The school down the road from my house one of those UFO type water towers. Its all flat around here, so I guess that's why it needs to be free standing. Butt ugly though!

I can't believe I'm talking about water towers

[fullyautomatix]

Trainspotting, water tower spotting, land rover spotting, are you posting from some mental health instiution?

[Doggy Styles]

Don't seem to see those big gas towers any more either - you know, the huge inflatable cylindrical thingies that were sometimes full and sometimes half empty. Going back to my childhood to remember that image though, which may not be accurate.

Other questions. How far can the electrical formulas for power, resistance, voltage, amperage, etc be applied to water towers, which are batteries. The potential difference (water pressure) of a water tower for example is 1 bar (~10,000N/m^2, 1000kg/m^2, 0.1kg/cm^2)) per 10 metres height, which is the pressure that would be in a pipe at the bottom of the tower, but pipes (especially thin ones) have resistance, so a lesser pressure (voltage) will be felt at a more distant supply and with thinner pipes.

There are indeed remarkable conceptual similarities between the flows of electricity through conductors, and water through pipes.

In fact, I have sometimes used water through pipes as a metaphor when explaining the basics of Ohms Law and its derived equations to small children.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Don't seem to see those big gas towers any more either - you know, the huge inflatable cylindrical thingies that were sometimes full and sometimes half empty. Going back to my childhood to remember that image though, which may not be accurate.

Gasometers - they did away with loads of 'em when I was a kid and we changed from manufacturing our own gas from coal to pumping it out of the underside of the North Sea. No need for local storage if you don't have a local plant.