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| Thread ID: 55574 | 2005-03-14 06:44:00 | Tsunami Warning Device | eef2 (1904) | PC World Chat |
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| 333892 | 2005-03-14 06:44:00 | I was about to patent this idea, but I thought, Oh, what the heck, peoples lives are more important than to make money, so I thought I would just broadcast it here. TSUNAMI WARNING DEVICE Floating Buoys would be located at strategic tidal isthmuses where water is 1 metre deep at Mean Low Water. Device is triggered from the bottom when the buoy touches bottom, an unusual event known only to occur when the water recedes out to sea in the event prior to a tsunami. The signal would be relayed to land based sirens which would give a 1 to 3 minute warning to the community upstream of an usually high tidal event, such as a tsunami. An example of a location would be a suitable place in the Tamaki River, Auckland which would save families in the Farm Cove and Half Moon Bay Areas to name but two suburbs. |
eef2 (1904) | ||
| 333893 | 2005-03-14 07:05:00 | I voted for them all, because I could! And the idea is already in use... in the Pacific Ocean. You missed out on the patent idea by a few decades. Besides a tsunami warning device in the Tamaki River is so funny, I would go there, and create a dam to set off a false alarm! Sorry! |
mister harbies (5607) | ||
| 333894 | 2005-03-14 07:10:00 | And such a warning would ensure that all the rubberneckers and boy racers would flock to the coast to watch, thereby raising the death toll and the average IQ of the country in one single event. Wonderful idea. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 333895 | 2005-03-14 07:25:00 | This just in. Someone's already designed a Tsunami warning system. www.google.co.nz |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 333896 | 2005-03-14 07:57:00 | One of them bad boys would raise the land value in Wanganui.... | Metla (12) | ||
| 333897 | 2005-03-14 10:09:00 | If Aucklanders hadn't already received word of an approaching tsunami from a Pacific warning site well before water began rushing out to sea, then godhelpem... (Our region's much better set up for that than the Indian Ocean is.) On the other hand, if a teensy weensy one suddenly looms offshore from the Tamaki River estuary, your invention could come into its own - and be the saviour of the city. Bearing that in mind, I offer some venture capital if you decide after all to apply for a patent. There is a limit of $20 - and I will of course expect to receive detailed scale working drawings in triplicate, a list of component suppliers with their prices included, an estimate of the time needed to bring the project from drawings to fruition, a copy of the Resource consent granted by your local authority ( City & Regional) and confirmation from Fish & Game that they won't contest the placing of these devices in a waterway. Naturally, you will have cleared this with the local iwi before beginning any of these processes. I assume we may postpone obtaining clearances from OSH (Someone will have to go into the water) and DOC (Someone might damage protected mangrove swamps or water worms) until the second stage. I look forward to receiving your documentation. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 333898 | 2005-03-15 11:07:00 | Thanks for all your posts. Now who's going to steal my idea and build it. 63% of you can't be wrong. LOL on the resource consent obstacle coursehttp://pressf1.pcworld.co.nz/images/smilies/lol.gif. I can relate to that as I work with a Land Development Consultancy. It's just that I'm too fat and lazy to make it happen - not that Bird and Fish would present many problems.pressf1.pcworld.co.nz hehe | eef2 (1904) | ||
| 333899 | 2005-03-15 18:37:00 | If Aucklanders hadn't already received word of an approaching tsunami from a Pacific warning site well before water began rushing out to sea, then godhelpem... (Our region's much better set up for that than the Indian Ocean is.) On the other hand, if a teensy weensy one suddenly looms offshore from the Tamaki River estuary, your invention could come into its own - and be the saviour of the city. Bearing that in mind, I offer some venture capital if you decide after all to apply for a patent. There is a limit of $20 - and I will of course expect to receive detailed scale working drawings in triplicate, a list of component suppliers with their prices included, an estimate of the time needed to bring the project from drawings to fruition, a copy of the Resource consent granted by your local authority ( City & Regional) and confirmation from Fish & Game that they won't contest the placing of these devices in a waterway. Naturally, you will have cleared this with the local iwi before beginning any of these processes. I assume we may postpone obtaining clearances from OSH (Someone will have to go into the water) and DOC (Someone might damage protected mangrove swamps or water worms) until the second stage. I look forward to receiving your documentation. You're my new hero :lol: :lol: |
pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 333900 | 2005-03-16 09:46:00 | there shud be sensors placed on sandbars or small islands out at sea... failing that, follow your pets when they go running inland... |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 333901 | 2005-03-16 11:40:00 | Ta, pixeldust :o :o :o :o |
Laura (43) | ||
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