[Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcement
Rajib Das
rajibdas at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 22 06:48:06 PDT 2006
The big problem is there is no water under your land
in Guwahati. As there are areas, including my house,
where city water supply does not reach. Not that it
would help greatly. At least 3 to 4 months of a year,
it is the same problem.
So the problem exists. The solution is not under your
plot of land. If Brahmaputra water can be
appropriately filtered and sold, that is a different
animal all together.
--- Barua25 <barua25 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's bamboo-reinforcementBhar
> water costs at Rs 20/-. Bhar= 30 litres.
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> Interesting.
> If this is delivered drinking water to your flat, it
> is rather cheap, I would say. Less than a rupee per
> litre.
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> Here is a business tip to the local youth in
> Guwahati.
> If you have a plot of land in Guwahati, all you need
> to do is dig a deep well and produce free drinking
> water. You may need little or no filtration at all.
> Sell the produced water to the buildings in the
> city by a water tanker by pumping the water to the
> roof top tanks. (You will be called whenever the
> city water supply will fail or there is extra demand
> of water in parties). You have unlimited supply of
> free water. You may not even need a license. You do
> the math how much profit you will make.
>
> I would like to hear comments from learned MM if I
> am doing it wrong.
> RB
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chan Mahanta
> To: assam at assamnet.org
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 3:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's
> bamboo-reinforcement
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> That is high math, reserved only for
> "--civil/structural/hydraulic engineer" types, like
> Himendra Kwaiti perhaps? Not nice to tread on
> specialists territory :-).
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> At 11:20 PM +0530 8/21/06, mc mahant wrote:
> <B: Rainwater stored on roof-tops being infested
> by algae due to the heat.>
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> For those who are unfamiliar with algae,
> it is a plant organism
> and needs light to survive and multiply.
> Water tanks are usually dark
> ( at least the kind I have seen) and
> thus would not allow algae growth.
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> Where is our resident scientist, Tilok
> Hatimuria, when we need him most
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> A little arithmetic is called for.Say you have a
> roof area= 100 sq mtr. and annual normal rainfall
> =2m.You catch every drop and store.
> So to store 200 cu.mtr water in a 2.5 mtr deep
> underground tank below your house, you need Rs 5
> Lakhs etra over just the house cost.
> You have a 10 member family -need 2 cu mtr water
> daily. So your annualHarvest of Stale rainwater goes
> for 100 days! And for 265 days you buy-because you
> did not dig your ring-well for Rs 10,000/-. At Gau
> today,Bhar water costs at Rs 20/-. Bhar= 30 litres.
> Hence you buy water--costing dailyRs 1200/-
> So much for today.
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> From: Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net>
> To: assam at assamnet.org
> CC: mikemahant at hotmail.com, Chan Mahanta
> <cmahanta at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [Assam] MC Mahanta's
> bamboo-reinforcement
> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:23:02 -0500
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> Himendra Thakur charging others of personal
> attacks is a classic example of the pot calling the
> kettle black.
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> No one in Assam net ( other than a couple of
> 'seraa-paagols' who are obviously not quite together
> ) has indulged in personal attacks of the kind that
> Himendra Thakur has been engaging in. And that while
> sermonizing Assam Netters on vedic virtues and
> spouting love for all humanity ( except them Muslims
> of course). Talk about 'bhondo toposyi'! Talk about
> hypocrisy!!
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> Engineers are expected to be rational people,
> not to be taken by 'fake-science'
> or old wives' tales. And here we are, HT, from
> the cutting-edge of engineering excellence from
> Boston, telling us things like:
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> A: Rasendra Barua's 'mercury' valve
> holding the water back from
> leaking right out of Xiboxagor pukhuri
> into the artesian wells
> that supposedly feeds it!
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> No doubt it has not been verified yet,
> not because the 'rox' --mercury
> detection is not yet possible --but
> obviously because it is more
> likely the 'rox' that replaces the
> ability to reason.
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> High science it surely must be; in the
> great traditions of the earth
> being held aloft in the firmament by
> 'gojendra', standing on the back
> of a 'kaaso'. The fertile minded
> cartoonist who authors the
> BC comic strip in which the apteryx
> with a lazy tongue rides the turtle
> could not use the imagery more
> effectively.
>
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> B: Rainwater stored on roof-tops being
> infested by algae due to the
> heat.
>
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> For those who are unfamiliar with
> algae, it is a plant organism
> and needs light to survive and
> multiply. Water tanks are usually dark
> ( at least the kind I have seen) and
> thus would not allow algae growth.
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> Where is our resident scientist, Tilok
> Hatimuria, when we need him most.
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> C: Engineers are also the kinds of
> people who, when shown info.
> that they may not be familiar with,
> learn to change their minds.
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> HT implied ( if not told) us once that
> bamboo and cement do not
> bond. In response I posted the website
> of US Naval Engineering which
> explains and provides extensive
> examples of how bamboo and cement
> do bond and can be used effectively
> for certain applications.
>
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> Obviously this cutting-edge engineer's
> edge has become dull from
> dealing with too much adha-khunda
> bidya, to have asserted, once
> again:"--considering the lack of bond
> between bamboo & concrete",
> unless it was never too sharp to begin
> with.
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> D: Engineers could be expected to
> verify their source of info.,
> before charging others with
> engineering
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