Recent content by philo

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_effect The 2 articles do more justice than I can to the topic. Windcatchers are native to the area and can generate pressurized wind. It is appropriate to destroy the idea if it doesn’t work. I’m more of a...

Thanks for the welcome. The mechanism would be akin to something like this video. Using high psi water stream to cut the stone. I’d imagine a Venturi pump like this Finally as the for the air I’d imagine by hooking up a copper Venturi pump to the Nile, and using some form of high...

Was watching a video on the the Great Pyramid of Giza and it got me wondering how one might cut one of the stones. Doing a couple google searches, I thought that a Venturi pump would likely be the means by which the stones were cut. The problem being how would they get a large enough psi...