Message from @What Would Jack Conte Do?
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there was an estimate on how much it would cost, but a billion a year is a bit of a big ask
so it could be 20 meters at the deepest point, 500 at the widest, and then 50 seomwhere
there was an estimate?
billion a year?
i mean all my idea is one pumping station, though it'd take a lot of power i guess
on maintaining bushlands
also trucks, which are typical
oh maintaining bushlands? well that's obviously different
i think they could just create the evac lake
maybe 1km wide, and the smoke doesn't get to people
depends on how long fires last for too
each boat has its own toilet
you'd have maybe 1000 boats lol
i dunno, seems like an diea
you could fit like 20 people on a small boat
10,000 boats - all the boats in the world
cmon, lets make this idea work
what's the population of NSW
fleeing to the lake probably can't be done, it'd just be a local thing
and maybe very expensive but i can make this work dammit
it'd have a surface area 24960
this is going off the 500,000 cubic meters of water fill
each boat might use 6 meters surface area (beam of 1.5 meters, length 4 meters)
20 people could crouch on it
if it has a toilet, maybe the length needs to be like 6 meters tho... or i guess people could just scoop their poop and pee out with their hands... it's a survival situation so who cares
i dunno how long brush fires last for
so there's no way that you could fit 10,000 boats in the lake... maybe 1000 or 2000 (if they're all touching close together... they don't want to paddle near the shoreline)
4000 is the maximum, if they are lining the shoreline and bumping each other
so 1000 boats - 20,000 people could be saved
but that's a local preparation thing
i dunno if the brush fire would keep going until they all die of thirst (lake would be salt water, since it's sourced from the ocean)
i predict 5 years to prepare the lake
with trucks and an ocean water pumping station
archimedes screw to lift water, etc.
1000 life boats, in fireproof boat houses
near to the lake
there'd be a rescue crew helping to prepare boats
Um. Yikes