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The Best Low Water-Pressure Taps for You
The Tapron blog post "The Best Low Water-Pressure Taps for You" provides insights into choosing taps suitable for low water pressure environments. It explains water pressure and its importance in tap selection, emphasizing the need for low-pressure taps in certain plumbing systems. These taps are designed for efficiency and sustainability, catering to homes with gravity-fed or combination water systems. The article suggests specific tap types for low-pressure conditions, aiming to improve water flow while conserving energy. For more detailed recommendations, visit the full article here.
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Aquaponics combines two growing methods, aquaculture and hydroponics, to create a self-contained, well-balanced ecosystem. Fish are fed and raised in a tank and as gravity pulls the wastewater through a hydroponic garden, bacteria feed on the waste, breaking it down into essential nutrients for the plants to grow. The system then returns the cleaned water back to the fish reservoir so the process can begin again. Get started with your own solar kit you can set up at home: https://amzn.to/3jNGmdI In this episode, Charles Collins shares his backyard aquaponic and hydroponic gardens where he's able to grow tilapia, leafy greens, peppers, herbs and so much more, all in the suburban desert. Together we grow! You can follow Charles here: https://youtube.com/channel/UCdU6O4JjaL_jXtie6GzKkow Podcast: https://youtu.be/_pTu2HvVPP4?si=StTF95d7zNSLMrKj LIKE, COMMENT, SUBSCRIBE, & SHARE! BEHIND THE SCENES: https://www.patreon.com/PARAGRAPHIC PRODUCTS & SERVICES: https://paragraphic.io/ AMAZON STOREFRONT: https://www.amazon.com/shop/paragraphic BOKEH SUPPLEMENTS: https://bokehrola.com/ JOIN THE MULTITUDE: https://www.multitude.io FOLLOW US @theparagraphic https://www.instagram.com/theparagraphic/ • • • • • • • • ABOUT PARAGRAPHIC: Handcrafted documentaries featuring artisans of all trades. We are filmmakers who tell the stories of creators, makers, entrepreneurs, and artists. The ones who have committed everything to their craft. From garage bakeries and mushroom farms to backyard aquaponics and innovative fabricators, these stories will take you behind the brand and show an inside look at the people who make it happen. -Of the earth, from the plough #aquaponics #hydroponics #aquaculture
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Why Do You Need a Gravity-fed Water Filtration System?
Perhaps you have faced an emergency where water is needed urgently or live in an area where the water supply is unstable. Gravity-fed water filtration systems can help ease your dilemma, and they don't need electricity to work, which is convenient. So just like literally, all that is needed is a natural force - gravity.
How is a gravity-fed water filtration system constructed?
This filtration system generally consists of two chambers, an upper chamber where contaminated water is poured in and clean filtered water flows into the lower chamber. The upper chamber of a gravity-fed water filtration system contains the filter cartridge, which is responsible for filtering the contaminant-filled water. This type of cartridge generally has multiple stages of filtration material to ensure the health of the water.
Advantages of gravity-fed water filtration system
Effective and efficient filtration. They are simple to install and ready to use, have a very long life, and require no deliberate maintenance with proper cartridge replacement, and we recommend following the manufacturer's recommendations. In addition, the life cycle and price of the cartridge allow you to use it without spending too much money.
Able to be placed anywhere you want, even in a corner, the gravity-fed water filtration system is available in a variety of sizes.
No need to plug in, another sense of saving on your bills.
Disadvantages of gravity-fed water filtration system
Although they are available in different sizes of volume, it is on the large side and you need to make a reasonable assessment of the amount of water you will be taking each day.
Gravity-fed water filtration systems take some time to clean the water, which may not be done in a few seconds.
Things to consider when buying a gravity-fed water filtration system
The contaminants that need to be filtered. We recommend checking the water quality report for your area to understand what is in the water supply before you buy so that you can be more accurate in your gravity-fed water filtration system purchase. You can do this by checking the water quality report from your state's Environmental Protection Agency, or by purchasing your simple tools for long-term use.
The amount of water used. Once you know roughly how much water you consume each month, you can figure out how often you need to replace the cartridge based on the number of gallons it filters to know how well the gravity filter is meeting your water needs.
YUNDA Gravity-fed Water Filtration System
You don't need to worry, the YUNA Gravity-fed Water Filtration system can provide excellent filtration. It is designed as a 4-layer composite filtration that can remove 98.95% of residual chlorine and 98% of fluoride. At the same time, it can filter sediment, rust, heavy metals, and other large particles of contaminants. The two composite filters work together and in the end, your family will get clean, healthy, and fresh water.
Compared to other common products, YUNDA's gravity-fed water filtration systems are made of tough, hard-wearing food-grade 304 stainless steel. The 12.5" * 8.5" * 20.4" size is capable of holding 2.25 gallons of water.
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The large capacity, no need to plug in, ready to use right out of the box will be your reasons to buy the Gravity-fed Water Filtration system. Like most YUNDA water filtration systems, the quality and customer experience that comes with this gravity water filtration system is unique, and we offer a customizable service. If you have any other needs, please feel free to contact us.
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The entire Pines family + Wendy must freak the town people out so badly when they go out in public together.
You've got Stanley "was involved with organized crime from the age of 20, got into so much trouble with the law he invented new crimes, people at the bar don't like or trust me" Pines
Stanford "In every universe with a judicial system I have ever been in, I am wanted. Summoned a demon and got into a situationship with him, gave my 12 year old grand niece a crossbow" Pines
Mabel "ate outlawed candy and hallucinated in a haunted convenience store, dated a gnome and later discovered their weakness is leaf blowers, dragged my great uncle up a water tower to cure his fear of heights, beat up her own brother while he was possessed by Bill" Pines
Dipper "jumped of several cliffs, once to prove he was a man, once to save his sister from Gideon, and then in a car with Wendy during the apocalypse, broke the laws of time to impress a girl, got chewed on by a wolf and didn't go inside because his sister and her friends were annoying him" Pines.
And then we have Soos "I will do anything for the Pines Family, has been Stans duckling since he was 13, then fought Stan when he thought he was a risk to the twins, was willing to guard the vending machine from the feds when Stan was arrested, ate a man alive" Ramirez.
Wendy "survived 3 days in an apocalyptic hellscape by herself at 15, drive a car off a cliff with Dipper riding shotgun, went with Mabel to find unicorns and then helped fight them, drop kicked Lil Gideon because he annoyed her, is the only girl in her family" Corduroy.
I'll bet that they all hang out in town and the people of Gravity Falls are just HOPING they don't come into their store because Stan and Wendy are totally going to shoplift, Mabel leaves glitter everywhere, Ford and Dipper end up in the vents somehow, and Soos ends up in a fight with a mannequin the store owner didn't even know they had.
Meanwhile, they're skipping down the main drag to get up to some fuck shit like
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On a 'realistic/reasonable' weaponry kick for Mobile Frame Zero: Rapid Attack lately. Based on the Polsten/Sten WW2 era guns, the Colonial Espatier use a Colsten rifle base as their primary armament. Enough variations of this simple and inexpensive weapon exist to fill most battlefield roles. Note the overheated barrel in the & the spare barrels/ammo for the Colsten wielded by the Ruschia.
A variant of the Colsten rifle, the Colsten Maxter features a housing around the barrel containing a water based coolant system. This is particularly useful in space based combat. Colsten Maxters tend to use drum magazines as their barrels can handle higher fire rates than their air cooled predecessors. The Full Maxter is a scaled up chain fed Colsten galting gun also cooled by water. Due to the movement of the water and spinning of the interior barrels, the Full Maxter requires a stable firing position for proper accuracy, and is popular under gravity. For funsies, I threw in a break barrel grenade launcher as well. The 1x2 plate with top clip and 1x1 round plate with handle is one of my favorite brick combos, and its always nice to find another use for it!
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me and @a-forsteri were talking about how the narrator like, desperately wants someone to tell him his life is fucked up, what he does is fucked up, he desperately wants someone to respond with the gravity he desires.
Like, he tells these people on the plane what he does. Trying to fuck with them. Desperately hoping!! One of them will go: holy shit!!! That's really fucked up how do you live with that!!! But all he gets is people thinking he's the freak and just asking what car company he works for. Because it is easier to pretend he himself is the problem, maybe just his company, rather than actually face and recognize the systemic, widespread nature of what he's saying.
It leans together with his sense of where he is in his office, too. He feels separate from all these people. They feel fake. They feel like people going on as normal even though they're all working to hasten the apocalypse, and no one acknowledges it! They're all perfectly happy to turn a blind eye to any of the distant consequences of their actions. That is what their jobs are for. Keep them up in the cubicles, nicely fed and watered with inflated salaries, and then they'll have no issue with the distant sense that they may be contributing to a corrupt system. They can't change the system, but they need to feed their kids, so hell, just don't think about it too much.
But he doesn't have that option. He is the one who actually does go out into the field and he sees the direct result of all of their collective actions, but especially his. Every crash related to a faulty part he sees is because someone like him before him, or him himself, ran the formula and let this happen. He has no choice but to see the very real result of his actions.
And he feels INSANE over it. Because he returns to the office and it's just numbers. Applying the formula. Hearing your coworkers chat about a potluck. You're not contributing to a horrific system, you ARE the horrific system, and it's like you're the only one who sees that. He literally cannot sleep over it.
And when you tell people about it, they try to minimize it. To your company, to you. Because that is easier than acknowledging just how many things have to be corrupt and uncaring of human life to allow this to be the case. It's too much. Stick your head in the sand.
He desperarely wants someone to scream at him: how could you do that? How could anyone do that? Why is this allowed to happen? Doesn't anyone see something wrong here?
He imagines his plane crashing. Free him from this. The burden of every piece of normality manufactured for satiating any thought and discomfort he has about his job. It's all petty, pointless fluff. It's putting some artificial grass on the feedlot. Why does everything and everyone say it's all worth it for this garbage?
He wants someone to tell him all this. He doesn't want to be alone. He already feels catastrophically alone. In his life, whenever he talks about this, whenever he does anything. He loves the support groups because you're allowed to have abject misery there. You rejoice in it. Everyone's life is falling apart and ending and nothing means anything good ever. They're all honest about it, too. He plays coy when he talks about his job, but these people, everyone knows they're falling apart, and it's recognized and treated as the horror it is. This is freedom. Hitting bottom is freedom.
But he's supposed to be happy, because he's got his cushy little IKEA nest. It is only when people think he also has cancer and parasites causing his deep dissociation from his own life and general aura of resentment and misery that it's treated as something that isn't just... an individual flaw. Because it's easier for there to be something wrong with him than for that thing wrong with him to be how society makes him be this way. Rewards him for it.
So he invents someone. Tyler. To stop his little dance. To interrupt him. Drag him away and tell him all those little sundries are meaningless. Like he knows. But now he has someone saying it's true. The world IS falling apart. Everything is fucked up. It's everything he knows and has been too cowardly to say and now he finally has someone to say it for him and push to make some changes in his life. To expect him to actually do something. To feel his rage for him. And it's a catch-22, because a large part of what he hates about himself is that he's too cowardly and noncommittal to just do this all on his own.
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If Stardew Valley had Desert and Wetland farms, I think those could be very interesting, though they would probably be for seasoned players. I'm putting this under a read more cause I had some thoughts (tho not that many). Keep in mind, these would be pretty outside the norm of Stardew Valley farms and not necessarily true to life (in the same way farming in the game isn't true to life). Other Ideas: Terracing, Food Forests, crop rotation, etc. Some of these can be done in Stardew (or other games) but they're often not the intended method, just rp or actively discouraged.
The Desert Farm would be inspired by seasonal Egyptian farming and traditional Omani irrigation systems. The main gimmick would be the change in seasons, limitation on water and reliance on flooding/canals. It would still be focused on farming, with maybe mining.
IRRIGATION: Instead of sprinklers/watering can, water comes from three sources: Rain, Aflaj and Floods. Aflaj is a system of gravity fed canals/tunnels that would provide consistent water source but would either be limited by having to release it at certain time or expand it through construction. The other source would be floods, after the flood season, crops may be planted and don't need to be watered for a time.
RAIN: Rain is overall rarer, but stronger, think if every rain had the effects of Green Rain. There would be a monsoon season of heavy storms, where part of the farm is cut off due to flooding. The day after it rains, the entire farm blooms. When the dry riverbed floods, any crops planted are destroyed.
CROPS: You would have access to desert crops/fish/immediately, and what crops you can grow will be affected by some seasonality changes I'll mention later. Winter crops could not be grown. I think they would be of higher quality to balance the reduced production (think the soil is more nutritious).
ANIMALS: Grass is much more sparse, but part of the farm is on a dry riverbed and so when it rains, the farm blooms with blue grass. Maybe having a system where less is more, or providing benefits to farming primarily goats and sheep?
SEASONS: Instead of the traditional four seasons, the farm is under three longer seasons - Monsoon/Flood (Summer/Fall) where there are storms and the river flood constantly, Post-Monsoon/Flood (Winter-Spring) where there is no rain but riverbed is fertile, and Pre-Monsoon/Flood (Spring-Summer), where it rains somewhat but the riverbed is dry again. This will affect what crops can and cannot be grown, and productivity of farming/animals. Along with random rain, this farm is extremely seasonal for its profits.
FISHING: I think there could either be a sinkhole or a bit of ocean for fishing, with desert fish and maybe beach or cave fish. It's available but probably not that useful.
MINING: Not necessarily present on the farm, though I think having some would give the player more to do.
COMBAT: Doesn't need it I'd say, or maybe just make it seasonal?
The Wetland Farm is inspired by Florida's wetlands and climate, as well as traditional agriculture and ecosystem management. The main gimmick would be that part of the farm had to be left fallow, but still managed; removing debris, picking up foraging, etc. This would result in quality fish and crops.
IRRIGATION: Crops can be planted adjacent to the shores of the wetland and be considered irrigated, otherwise sprinklers and watering can work as normal, EXCEPT the quality of crops increases only as the farm is properly managed (more on that).
RAIN: Generally, more rain and more storms and more green rain.
CROPS: To make things interesting, crops would be split into two seasons, except winter crops which can't be grown. As the game doesn't have any real way to do salinity, that can't really be a factor sadly.
ANIMALS: Animals wouldn't be affected much, but as you have to manage the land, there probably is a limit to how many barn/coop animals you have, although you'd be able to let them out year round. Fish ponds would probably be the way to go here.
SEASONS: There would be two seasons, a strong wet season and long (relatively) dry season.
FISHING: Fishing would be a huge benefit for the farm, as there would be both river and ocean fish available, as well as fish from the swamp. As with crops, managing the farm means higher quality fish. Fishing out trash would also improve the quality of the farm, so its not horrible when you finish them out.
COMBAT: I think there would be monsters, but instead of wilderness golems its mainly insects (accurate for wetlands), and as the quality increases maybe the type of monsters or level of monsters increases/decreases.
anyway im sleepy
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The Main Component in Your Bathrooms No One Is Telling You About!
The Tapron blog post emphasizes the crucial yet often overlooked component of bathroom design—shower pumps. It guides on selecting the right shower pump to enhance your shower experience by improving water pressure. The article covers key considerations such as pump types (single or twin impeller), flow rate, and understanding your home's water system (gravity-fed, combi-boiler, or unvented). It aims to educate readers on making an informed decision to ensure their showers function optimally. For a detailed exploration of how shower pumps can transform your bathroom, visit the full guide here.
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Gravity study gives insights into hidden features beneath lost ocean of Mars and rising Olympus Mons Studies of gravity variations at Mars have revealed dense, large-scale structures hidden beneath the sediment layers of a lost ocean. The analysis, which combines models and data from multiple missions, also shows that active processes in the martian mantle may be giving a boost to the largest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons. The findings have been presented this week at the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) in Berlin by Bart Root of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).Mars has many hidden structures, such as ice deposits, but the features discovered in the northern polar plains are a mystery because they are covered with a thick and smooth sediment layer believed to deposited on ancient seabed. “These dense structures could be volcanic in origin or could be compacted material due to ancient impacts. There are around 20 features of varying sizes that we have identified dotted around the area surrounding the north polar cap – one of which resembles the shape of a dog,” said Dr Root. “There seems to be no trace of them at the surface. However, through gravity data, we have a tantalising glimpse into the older history of the northern hemisphere of Mars.”Dr Root and colleagues from TU Delft and Utrecht University used tiny deviations in the orbits of satellites to investigate the gravity field of Mars and find clues about the planet’s internal mass distribution. This data was fed into models that use new observations from NASA’s Insight mission on the thickness and flexibility of the martian crust, as well as the dynamics of the planet’s mantle and deep interior, to create a global density map of Mars.The density map shows that the northern polar features are approximately 300-400 kg/m3 denser than their surroundings. However, the study has also revealed new insights into the structures underlying the huge volcanic region of Tharsis Rise, which includes the colossal volcano, Olympus Mons. Although volcanoes are very dense, the Tharsis area is much higher than the average surface of Mars, and is ringed by a region of comparatively weak gravity. This gravity anomaly is hard to explain by looking at differences in the martian crust and upper mantle alone. The study by Dr Root and his team suggests that a light mass around 1750 kilometres across and at a depth of 1100 kilometres is giving the entire Tharsis region a boost upwards. This could be explained by huge plume of lava, deep within the martian interior, travelling up towards the surface.“The NASA InSight mission has given us vital new information about the hard outer layer of Mars. This means we need to rethink how we understand the support for the Olympus Mons volcano and its surroundings,” said Dr Root. “It shows that Mars might still have active movements happening inside it, affecting and possibly making new volcanic features on the surface.”Dr Root is part of the team proposing the Martian Quantum Gravity (MaQuls) mission, which aims to use technology developed for missions like GRAIL and GRACE on the Moon and Earth respectively to map in detail the gravity field of Mars. “Observations with MaQuIs would enable us to better explore the subsurface of Mars. This would help us to find out more about these mysterious hidden features and study ongoing mantle convection, as well as understand dynamic surface processes like atmospheric seasonal changes and the detection of ground water reservoirs,” said Dr Lisa Wörner of DLR, who presented on the MaQuIs mission at EPSC2024 this week.
TOP IMAGE: Gravity map of Mars. The red circles show prominent volcanoes on Mars and the black circles show impact crates with a diameter larger than a few 100 km. A gravity high signal is located in the volcanic Tharsis Region (the red area in the centre right of the image), which is surrounded by a ring of negative gravity anomaly (shown in blue). Credit Root et al.
LOWER IMAGE: Map highlighting the dense gravitational structures in the northern hemisphere. The regions denoted by the black lines are high mass anomalies that do not show any correlation with geology and topography. These hidden subsurface structures are covered by sediments from an old ocean. Their origin is still a mystery and a dedicated gravity mission, like MaQuIs, is needed to reveal their nature. Credit Root et al.
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Okay, here's a thought: you've probably noticed from posts by now that I'm working on some original space-fantasy material and I just thought I'd throw this your way—I've noticed that in film and television interior design for starships and starbases with simulated gravity tends to exist on a single-axis spectrum from "Grand Faux-Marble Hotel" to "Metal Piping Everywhere," neither of which strike me as particularly good actual design ideas for a place that people are going to live in for extended periods, not when there's no real outside to go and spend time in. So I'm just curious if you have any thoughts on what good urban design would look like for, say, a starbase. How could perhaps green-space be brought in to create a feel of going outdoors in hallways, for instance? What other solutions do you think there could be for making a sealed environment like that look more like something real people would be able to thrive living in?
okay. so i did some googling as to what a star base is and I am still confused, but I will endeavour to do my best anyway.
First of all, the practicalities. They need oxygen, they need food. Guess what creates both of those? Plants! And you've heard me talk about hydroponics: it's a super water and nutrient efficient way to grow All Things Green and I imagine that a starbase or whatever would want to be as self-sufficient as possible and won't have a problem getting solar energy either direct to their plants or to power artificial UV lights that do just as good a job. Also, seeing as there are humans there breathing out carbon dioxide: basic evolutionary science says, get the plants in first, get them as numerous as possible, that way they make oxygen pretty much on their own and you're saved from having to cart the stuff in which is an expensive and dangerous process (carbon dioxide is a lot more inert and safer to transport: when near a fire it will put the fire out rather than Big Burn). You could also utilise human, um, waste products in some variation of hydroponics that's a bit more like aquaponics. Nutrient cycling. Or bring in some fish and just have aquaponics as well?
So that being said, you've got the required Green Stuff in order to feel like you're going outside. Green plants growing all up the walls and bright light and the sound of running water. Maybe it's light and humid enough to grow some sort of ground cover as well with stepping stones so it doesn't get too worn by passerby? You could definitely make hallways and hallways of this, because space is so limited just utilise anywhere you have to grow food. And it will mean the air is fresher as well. You can get design inspo for this by looking up anything along the lines of 'green building' on any image search or Pinterest. Faeriecore meets futuristic technology: my favourite kind of vibe. Plants in the bathrooms, wherever is practical really, what you really want to think is: everything has to be super efficient, because gravity simulation is no doubt expensive and energy intensive to run. No silly extra space like the Grand Faux Marble Hotel. PVC pipes are a lot lighter than metal and won't rust when you've got all your necessary salts running through them to feed your plants, but they're not the most attractive so you want green to cover them wherever possible. Think of the plumbing: you want everything to flow from source to sink as efficiently as possible, and no nutrient, water, etc to ever be wasted. And then, on top of this basic skeletal framework, somewhere that feels liveable. Blues and greens to calm the nervous system when you're so far away from actual soil. A basic compost plant going on somewhere that recycles some of the nutrients fed back into the little soil pellets used for hydroponics and the juices that run through as fertiliser. Lots of chemical testing but make it cute little glass or plastic probes that are super quick and you can test anywhere. Everything sealed off well for the inevitable day that gravity does fail, and you want to make sure you don't lose all your water and dissolved nutrients when that happens. You probably just make entire walls out of growing green things, honestly, not the structural ones but between most rooms this will do. Herbs growing on the kitchen side of the wall, that kind of thing. Mint in the hallways that you can just pull off and chew to freshen your breath: access to chewing gum and the like will be limited.
Anyway, hope that gives you a few ideas! What I love about urban design as opposed to just interior is it sees the inside and the outside, the buildings and their layout and surrounds as a whole system and it's easy to slot in the framework of how do we meet all of our users' needs within this system as a whole? And to do so you want to create an ecosystem. You want to include both practical needs and the need for beauty; efficiency not only in terms of resources but also accessibility (I assume your dwelling population are hard at work doing Starship Things and don't have time to rush back and forth in a poorly designed area); and diverse areas for a diverse set of users: in real life cities, think of animals as well as people. On a starship/starbase, you have the possibility of having to house aliens for a while. Where would they feel safe, have their needs met, and if miscommunication does occur and they break something, where and how would it have minimal impact?
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Hello! That previous ask got me. Does your au have indoor plumbing or is that still an elven privilege?
Haha, yes, indoor plumbing is indeed a thing. It's not as sophisticated, and it does vary depending on location, race, etc. but we do not have (what I like to call) 'shitwizards' in MIC.
A place like Eragon's farm on the very outskirts of Carvahall would have rudimentary plumbing, requiring some priming/pumping at a well, which could also be done with livestock turning a crank in the mornings to get everything moving and pressurized. Dwarves in more mountainous areas typically use mixes of gravity, spring systems and even geothermal changes to move their water and pressurize plumbing. Elves use a mix of everything, using magic to tap into the massive varieties of pressurization at their disposal, though they can use spring fed, gravity fed and wind powered systems without expending energy just as easily.
Surdan and other city based systems are a bit trickier. I'm no plumber, but I think I have a rudimentary understanding of what's needed to move water and other things around. What I'm not too good with is how you do it on a large scale in the city, without electricity (still trying to move away from it) and without much height difference to ensure water flow.
I'll do some looking into the Romans. Might be able to tinker with some of their systems. They LOVED their plumbing and put it to work on large scales in dense urban environments, though I'm not entirely sure how effective it was when you got really packed in there. Pressure is what's needed most for the kind of stuff we're used to, so supplying it and keeping it up would be difficult 24/7. Surda is a hot climate as well, much like Italy and the surrounding areas.
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OH! Right! Welcome welcome! To Modern Inheritance! I've seen your name around a bit lately, always glad to have new people here! What a fantastic ask! I love the ones that make me think like this, it's great for lore building. And it gets me to look into engineering! Splendid! :D
#eragon#inheritance cycle#the cyclists#the world of eragon#the inheritance cycle#modern inheritance#ket's modern inheritance cycle#modern inheritance lore#water in modern inheritance#ket's going crazy again#in a good way this means i get to watch Time Team more#and experimental archeology! WHAT FUN!!!#*happy claps*
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