The Army Corps of Engineers has broken ground on a serious construction project: a 150,000-gallon-per-second, $500m pumping station charged with keeping the city of New Orleans a little, uh, dryer than it has been in the last few years. The pump is just a small part of a larger $14bn plan to seal up New Orleans' levees and bolster the city's disaster preparedness, but it's without a doubt the most visually impressive. PopSci's thrown together a couple of diagrams to give us a sense of scale, and trust me, they're necessary—see that little white thing next to the diesel engine? That's a full-sized human being. There aren't a whole lot of companies that make combustion engines that cartoonishly huge, so my money's on something from a company like Wartsila-Sulzer, which makes engines like this to spin the props on ultramassive cargo ships, and conceivably, pumps:
At any rate, the pump is expected to be operational—and NOLA slightly safer—by 2011.
Puri Jagannath and Gopichand combo film ‘Golimaar’ is all set for a release on 14th, May. Priyamani is playing the female lead in the movie while actress Roja is playing the role of heroine’s mother in the film. The film was earlier shot in Malaysia. Recently, Dil Raju acquired the rights of ‘Golimaar’ for Nizam region.Golimaar is produced by by Bellamkonda Suresh.The film is inspired from a real life story, where Gopichand will be playing the role of a Maharashtrian police officer. Chakri is scoring the music for the film and Shyam K Naidu will handle the camera.Other important roles in the film are done by Nassar, Roja, Shavar Ali, Pasupathi.
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