So,
I have been away for a few months working in the middle of No Where, BC. at the Mica dam doing an install...
Since this install requires me to directly work with both NERC officials, AND government employees... you can imagine how this went.. ("So, of Monday we have a meeting, for the meeting, about the meeting for the meeting, that we will be having on Tuesday. Tuesday we have 6 meetings to cover the details of Wednesday's meetings.. which we will get into details about on the meeting on thursday.... maybe next week we can do some actual work. After we have a meeting to detail the work, that is." SHOOT. ME. NOW.)
But in my absolute frustration, random boredom between our much needed meetings. I got to do things...
like sit on top of the dam crest (which is actually a road)... and look 800m down into basically the start the of the Columbia river, fed by the Mica Spill way....
And I started to do some simple, wild, crazy, idle maths. Would you like to do some with me?
Lake Kinbasket, which is on the other side of the Mica dam is roughly 150km long, and averages 1 km wide, and is 700m deep on average.
1 cubic meter of water weighs 1 ton.
Uncontrolled volumes of liquid can travel up to 180km/hr...
Sleep tight!