I've been asked about a 2km long umbilical and what "overage" and the size of expansion loops at one end are required.
I heard that ordering 1% over the point to point length is appropriate and it's dependent on seabed topography.
What codes have anything on this? Is 1% too much?
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Does anyone know which plant type produces waste materials with the shortest half life?
I've heard that some produce waste with a half-life of hundreds of thousands of years which is OTT IMHO.
James Lovelock has proposed the construction of massive ocean pipes "100 to 200 metres long, 10 metres in diameter and with a one-way flap valve at the lower end for pumping by wave movement" to pump water up from below the thermocline to "fertilize algae in the surface waters and encourage them...