Rain forces end to eastern drainage test

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Rain forces end to eastern drainage test

Published: 8 Sep 2012 at 00.00
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The government's water drainage test scheduled for eastern Bangkok yesterday was called off after several days of continuous heavy rain in the capital and nearby provinces.

Royol Chitradon, chairman of the subcommittee that monitors and analyses water management for the Water and Flood Management Commission (WFMC), said his committee, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation had jointly decided to cancel the drill.

Some low-lying areas of Bangkok and neighbouring provinces, such as Nonthaburi and Pathum Thani, had been hit by flash floods caused by the heavy rains, Mr Royol said.

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johninbkk
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Discussion 34 : 11 Sep 2012 at 09.4834
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englishbob, it's not just PTP that's clueless about these useless 'water pushers'. The Dems, the BMA, PTP, and the Thai Navy are all working on it together. Like the EM ball scam of last year (which even most farang fell for).
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Discussion 33 : 09 Sep 2012 at 01.5733
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Khun BJ #27, a boat's propeller is designed to create thrust to propel the boat forward, however, a water pump is designed to create suction, in order to move water from one place to another, via pressure differential between its two openings. They are 2 completely different applications of hydrodynamic principle. A simple illustration is to cut a straw in half, lengthwise, then try to use it to suck up water through your mouth. You can try to suck that half-cut straw as hard as you can, but all the suction is lost through the "half-pipe," and all you get is air, not water. Hope you'll see the picture!
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Discussion 32 : 08 Sep 2012 at 22.4232
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It looks like a huge Aerator... a device for mixing air into a stable body of water. It might work, but My father would have installed high capacity pumps and pipeline to get that water out of the area.
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Discussion 31 : 08 Sep 2012 at 21.0331
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is this a joke!
if they want solve the flood problem
they have to dig 2 channels around bangkok with 2 dams to open and close
very simple every dutch kid solve this problem in 1 minute
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englishbob
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Discussion 30 : 08 Sep 2012 at 19.1930
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Try Googling 'Water Pushing Machines'...
They don't come up on searches - except those linked to Peua Thai's idiotic notion that a propeller in the middle of an almost stationary body of water can speed up flow.

These are as big a scam as the divining-rod bomb detectors. Someone is laughing all the way to the bank with this one. I'd be very interested to see which company supplies them and whether there are 'connections' to Peua Thai MPs. A good case for Khun Dussadee to investigate... if he hadn't been(ahem) promoted away from investigating.
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Discussion 29 : 08 Sep 2012 at 18.5429
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banphai Discussion 24: Brilliant, funniest thing I have read in ages haha.

Have you ever thought of becoming the Minister for rash statements?....Oh wait we already have lots of them running the PTP.
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Discussion 28 : 08 Sep 2012 at 18.1328
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The really scary thing about this is that some "engineer" sat down, conceived and designed these devices. A registered engineer (presumably). Scary stuff indeed.
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Discussion 27 : 08 Sep 2012 at 15.5527
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If you fix a boat with a motor driven propellor so it cannot move, induce power through the propellor then the propellor will transfer energy to the water, this is due to Newtons 3rd law which says : When two bodies interact by exerting force on each other, these forces (termed the action and the reaction) are equal in magnitude, but opposite in direction.
And since the boat with the propellor cannot move then it will help push water, so it works....however the efficiency will be less than a turbine which is around 60% and since the obstruction the boats make for the water flow is quite large then the propellors will not have any big impact at the water flow if any at all.
However RID should now be able to release data upstream and downstream of the said pump arrangements so that it once and for all can be seen whether it works or not....so BP get the data for us, thanks.
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Discussion 26 : 08 Sep 2012 at 15.5226
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Basically this "fiasco" is the result of copying others and cheating on exams when young, lack of original ideas and rote learning tops it of. Receiving diploma's fraudulently is showing up through total and embarrassing incompetence at a later age. Cheating appears genetically locked in so the future looks bleak indeed. We are ruled by Baboons at best. I can't wait for 2015, this change will hit home in a devastating way.
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Discussion 25 : 08 Sep 2012 at 15.3625
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Time to move all your stuff upstairs.
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