"The Snow Cave"
Very neat home!
which obviously needs moved 500 miles south.
Or 750 miles south.
I already said I don't know about hydro, but...
"I went up and down the length of the penstock and there is definitely air getting in somewhere and that can only mean one thing, a crack in the pipe. The entire thing is buried under 2 feet of snow right now though, so I'll have to wait until it manifests itself in the form of a wet spot before I start surgery."
Makes no sense to me.
If there is air getting in, will water leak out? (asuming it is not a giant hole, or very long crack)
Not sure of the overall implications of 3" pipe.
The combined flow rate in two parallel 3" pipes will be little more than half that of a single 4" pipe.
A 6" pipe will carry more than twice as much as a 4" pipe.
G-
Re: leaky pipe... I'm sure it has a long crack somewhere as has been my experience with PVC pipe and ice. The question is where? Reason says that it will be close to the intake where the pressure hasn't built up and where air could get sucked in by the vacuum created. Just a guess???
As for the pipe, please see my last post....^
And, one more thing, 500 or 750 miles south would put me in the US. Now don't get me wrong, my wife is from down there and I have met some of the nicest people ever who were Americans, but the trend seems to be to bail out of there at the moment.
Now if we were to go, say, 2500 miles south, then we'd be in Costa Rica....hmmm, that I could handle!
The problem is, no matter where you go on this planet, you're still on Earth!