Boxing Tip

Body Building Magazine

i think the ships your talking about are the best one today.

actually, ships float completely differently (but better) in salt water than they do in fresh water…thats why they have freshwater and saltwater markings on the hull…

i suppose your point would be that they would still float in the canal if it was seawater…guh, because they go through the ocean to get there anyway…

I lived for several years in the rain forest and found it to be one of the most exciting places on earth.

How much do you think it would cost to pump 52 million gallons 26 meters up? Let’s see, that’s about 35 billion foot-pounds of energy, or 13,000 kilowatt-hours I reckon. At say 5 cents per kilowatt hour, that’s about $600 per ship in energy alone. Not too bad. From what I gather through google, the fee for a 60 kiloton vessel crossing the canal is over $100K, so the energy cost is a pretty small component.

So, cut down the rainforest, use some of the the wood to fuel a steam boiler to pump the water, use the rest to produce Ikea furniture, sounds like a winner to me.

Why can’t they just pump water into the canal from the oceans? at each end. Sure, its might be salinated, whereas rainforest run-off is fresh, but ships float just the same in saline water. Plus you’d have control over floods and drought, and a revenue stream from the woodchips.

Just FYI, there is at least one rain forest under the protection of the US Park Service. It is El Yunque, the Caribbean National Forest ( http://activetravel.about.com/cs/nationalparks/a/aa042602a.htm )

It is a trully gorgeous and overwhelming experience. The most interesting thing to us was how it would rain every 10-15 minutes. The rest of the island is humid, but nowhere close to that forest.