Sludge Watch ==> And from Google 'cache copy' - Sludgedump the Middle-East

[Maureen Reilly]

Sludgewatch Admin:

>From this lighthearted (I HOPE its a joke) commentary, several sludge whiz 
guys are putting their heads together to bring American hegemony to the 
Middle-East by bombing them with the world's payload of Class B sewage 
sludge.

Somehow the author seemz to forget that it was the lack of water that 
creates a desert, not a lack of sewer wastes.  But those wastewater guys can 
forget alot of things.


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Sludgedump the Middle-East
Refirtilize the land with sewage sludge bombs.
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This would be a stinky, albeit a nonlethal operation in order to make it 
rain sewer sludge on every square inch of the middle east. This operation 
could take an entire fleet of C-17 Globemaster III's a few weeks to a few 
months of dropping 77,000 kg loads of the stuff (25% solids by volume is 
about the consistancey of cake batter) at a few times daily, depending on 
the optimal dumping altitude. After the entire middle east is covered in 
sludge, though, then we can start changing the deserts into firtile 
grasslands and thus reversing the effects of global warming for good.

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quantum_flux, Oct 05 2007






       Sp.: fertile; fertilize. "Firtile" would be a shingle.

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MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 05 2007


       Just how much sludge do you need for this? Suppose you aim for a 
modest 1inch depth, or 2.5cm. The land area of the middle east is, what 4 
million square kilometres? If so, you will need (in total) 10^17 cubic 
centimetres of sludge, at a stated solids content of 25%.

       I don't know what the solids content of human faeces are, but I'm 
guessing they something like 25%, give or take a factor of two. So, you need 
10^17 cubic centimetres of human poo.

       I would guess that the average human produces, maybe, 200 cubic 
centimetres of poo per day. Hence, you are going to need 5 x 10^14 man-days 
of poo to accomplish this mission.

       Given that there are, what, 6 billion people on the planet, it will 
take you 83,000 days to collect this much. In other words, you will have to 
accumulate the total poo output of all humanity over a period of 228 years 
before you can start this.

       A little basic calculation at the outset could have avoided this 
embarrassing error.

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MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 05 2007


       I worry the sludge will dry up. Then it will blow around. That would 
not be good.

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bungston, Oct 05 2007


       And then there's the number of trips. Assuming that the sludge has a 
density of about 1g/cm^3, you will be able to carry 77 x 10^6 cm^3 per 
flight. Hence, you will need to make a total of 1.3 billion flights.

       I don't know how many C-17s there are, but let's guess 1000. And 
suppose they are really efficient and make 10 flights each per day. On this 
basis, it will take 130,000 days, or 356 years, to deliver the total 
payload.

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MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 05 2007


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