• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, but the water pipe goes back up meaning that there is near equal pressure on either side of the U-Siphon, right? Kind of negates the siphon, in a sense?

      I’m no fluid dynamics expert. Just a casual Joe.

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        4 months ago

        Its a bad diagram, the other side needs to be lower :/

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        4 months ago

        Because it’s simpler to build siphons through large valleys instead of 100 meter high 10 kilometer long aqueducts.

        • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          But you have to keep water pressure throughout the length of that tube, how did they do that with their materials?

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            1 day ago

            There is no additional pressure besides from the height/drop, so unless so have a substantial leak where you lose a lot of water, it “just works”.

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        4 months ago

        Valley was too deep for the aqueduct but they didn’t want to make the drawing taller just for that