The purpose of the T.D. Waterline is to help give people an opportunity to make a difference. It is a proactive solution to some very real problems facing the US today. Whether your goal is supplying drinking water and food crops to millions of people, or protecting our forest from fire and fighting global warming, or to simply water your lawn, we need an increase in water.
Water will be purchased from Alaska and other suppliers and will enter the pipeline by utilizing floating inlet platforms. The first platform will be located just southwest of Sitka, AK. The water will travel down an injection tube to a depth of 3000 feet where it enters the mainline on its way to southern states.
The pipeline will utilize wind turbine and wave energy to increase the water velocity in the pipeline. This highly pressurized water can revolutionize forest fire fighting efforts in coastal California with high pressure water lines, irrigated green zones for fire blocking, and fire towers in critical areas along highways in California.
The goal is to purchase water in the north for transfer to customers in the south where growing seasons are longer and the majority of people live. That is where the water is really needed. With enough water, people in the southwestern states might be able to grow crops for bio-fuel. If those crops can be grown on lands close to highways, they will acts as a consumer of the CO2 emissions left by the high volume of cars. Irrigation would keep the plants green and the land moist so carelessly tossed cigarette butts won’t cause costly and devastating wildfires.
By using a collapsible pipe made from EPDM and Nylon, the T.D. Pipeline is the cutting edge of technical advancement. By comparison to on land water pipeline projects, a lightweight, super strong and flexible pipeline will be 100 ft in diameter and capable for transferring water in a method that is less intrusive to our environment and more reliable against disruptions of water flow.
The line will have three injection platforms and will be capable of delivering 100,000 cubic feet of water per second. The water will end its trip at platform #4 off the coast of California where it will be dispersed into customer provided pipelines and directed to destinations in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and northern Texas.
The water will be used by the populations as drinking water, irrigation for biofuel crops, CO2 consuming projects, hydro-electric power generation, inline generation along highways to provide electricity to electric cars, food crop production, tree farms, nurseries, golf courses, housing projects, landscapes and wetland development and restoration projects, and many many more innovative solutions to tough economic and environmental problems.
The T.D. waterline will utilize the newest installing and anchoring systems available today. All of the platforms will borrow technology from drilling rigs and offshore oil platforms with anchoring and pontoon flotation construction. The platforms will be 4000 feet square designed to utilize wave energy in order to propel and increase the water velocity. Each platform will be anchored using suction anchoring.
The waterline itself will be constructed elsewhere and be delivered on location by special barges that will fit together with the much larger installation barge. Sections of the water line will be fastened together and inspected on the ship. Floats are attached to the water line as it enters the ocean. Anchoring ships then attach anchors to the floats and begin lowering the anchors on the east and west sides of the water line. As the water line is lowered at an angle it is important to lower it while slowly moving forward.
Six anchoring ships will be required to work at the same time. All anchoring ships and inspection ships will be equipped with underwater cameras. A plotting ship will lead the way and set the correct course for the waterline. All operations will have to be 7 days a week for 24 hour days until completion. Time estimates to install the T.D. Water Pipeline are 345 Days. Each component will have to be constructed before installation with construction beginning in May 2012 and completed by May 2014.
It is a deep water line for several reasons
- The water line uses the pressure of 3000 foot ocean depths to support the weight of the pipeline.
- Allows the pipeline to be made from EPDM rubber and nylon. These materials weigh a fraction of what other ridged materials weigh and last years longer.
- High pressure required to inflate the water line will eliminate air bubbles and flotation risks associated with other ridged pipeline material.
- Ranging from 3000 ft to 5000 ft deep, the water line is able to be designed for 100 ft diameter piping. Under water is the only place a water line of this magnitude is feasible.
- Keeping the water line at depths of up to 5000 ft shortens the distance to California by factoring the curvature of the Earth.
- The T.D. Water line will be the largest, most protected water reservoir in the world.
In order to attain the pressure required to operate the water line, each of the four platforms will be equipped with high pressure wind and wave powered pumps. These pumps are used in conjunction with injection tubes in order to pressurize and move the water through the line. Platform four in California would disburse the water through turbine pumps to increase the velocity depending on the water demands for each customer.
At a 100 food diameter, the T.D. Water Pipeline will deliver 700,000 gallons of water per second, or 42 million gallons per minute, or 2,525,000,000 gallons an hour. Because of the design, it will operate at low flows because the water has to build pressure to enter the line and to keep all the air out of it. The water line acts as a reservoir during times of flow interruptions where the collapsible pipe will squeeze the water to the exit platform like a tube of toothpaste with a total capacity of 37 trillion, 250 billion gallons of water capable of producing enough clean green energy to power millions of dreams both now and in the future.
The T.D. Water Pipeline terminates 12 miles northwest of San Miguel, CA. This location was chosen because of its deep waters and close proximity to one of the United States’ largest population centers in Los Angeles. It is also a prime location for the thousands of projects that will require workers and supply jobs in the region. This project is needed for the economy and environment, and it is needed now!
This project is designed to create short and long term jobs throughout the implementation, execution, and maintenance of the water pipeline. The amount of jobs and scope of employment is largely dependent on the number of water selling communities and the number of water purchasing communities. This is a simple supply and demand relationship. The economic impact of employing sufficient enough workers to implement such a project will be massive and long lasting.
To keep this project an environmentally positive project means it must do more good then harm. This is why there are three injection platforms for funneling water into the pipeline. Small amounts of water can be purchase from many sources in order to be sure not to deplete water resources in any area to the point of negatively impacting the environment. The limited footprint that the waterline will have is the contact made between the anchors and the seafloor. This contact is made at depths over 5000 feet below the surface and all the anchors will occupy a total area of about 500,000 square feet.
Stopping wildfires has to be our number one goal in this war on global warming. Not only are our precious forests being destroyed, but fires are releasing massive amounts of CO2 that cannot be consumed by the burnt forests. It takes many years for a burnt forest to regain its CO2 consumption ability. Fires compound the global warming problem by emitting massive amounts of chemicals into the atmosphere while eliminating the Earths natural ability to clean the air through forests.