The Humble little pump

[Roy]

While I can't take credit for this I do think its pretty good.


Not many people think about this, but the humble water pump that costs
maybe 2 to 5 hundred dollars is in reality a little marvel of
engineering.

You install it and set it running and in many cases forget about it
until something goes wrong with it, usually, in most cases a good few
years down the line.

Most people quite rightly when they purchase a pump want to know what
sort of throughput it gives them in gallons per hour, but even the
simplest of working out will tell you what it delivers in a year which
is where the real wonder that is the water pump comes in to it's own
as a piece of engineeering.

If you take a pump designed to run at 3000GPH and run it 24/7/365 you
will find that at the end of a year of running that it has moved
some..26,280,000 gallons of water.

Marvellous things aren't they, and far from humble.
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[DKat]

"Roy" > wrote in message
...
> While I can't take credit for this I do think its pretty good.
>
>
> Not many people think about this, but the humble water pump that costs
> maybe 2 to 5 hundred dollars is in reality a little marvel of
> engineering.
>
> You install it and set it running and in many cases forget about it
> until something goes wrong with it, usually, in most cases a good few
> years down the line.
>
> Most people quite rightly when they purchase a pump want to know what
> sort of throughput it gives them in gallons per hour, but even the
> simplest of working out will tell you what it delivers in a year which
> is where the real wonder that is the water pump comes in to it's own
> as a piece of engineeering.
>
> If you take a pump designed to run at 3000GPH and run it 24/7/365 you
> will find that at the end of a year of running that it has moved
> some..26,280,000 gallons of water.

I enjoyed this point to this point.