[Scpg] How to make water go uphill with keyline?

[Permacltur at aol.com]

You are missing the point, which was a reply to a question about someone's 
claim that keyline cultivation moves water uphill.   It does not and I explained 
what it does do and the nature of the confusion.

I said that water does not flow uphill without application of external 
energy.   The EXAMPLE was a pump.   I could have given as an example a tsunami 
hitting an island, indeed any wave as the water rises, the creation of clouds, the 
example you gave, etc.   Someone else gave the one exception I didn't think 
of, which is capillary action.   In soil, this will move water laterally about 2 
feet in soil with a strong clay component or about one foot in sand.   So the 
diameter served by a drip point, moving water laterally, is 2 to 4 feet, 
depending upon the composition of the water.   Of course, this is utterly 
irrelevant to answering the original post about keyline moving water to ridges from 
valleys.

Dan Hemenway

In a message dated 2/6/08 11:45:41 AM, cory8570 at yahoo.com writes:


> Water does observably go uphill in nature via a narrowing channel, etc.  
> There are natural patterns that force water uphill at least for short 
> distances.  It depends on the vectors and forces applied.  One could call a running 
> stream a "pump" but I would call it a running stream.  You can use the natural 
> force of falling water and compression to defy gravity.  As to how practical 
> or useful this may be, I will leave that to people with more experience.  I 
> recall reading about an ancient irrigation system that used this principle, 
> but I don't recall details.  Anybody else have any data on such systems?   
> 
> Cory
> 





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