"First, the process can be automated, so pumps automatically feed nutritional fluid to the tissues for three or four weeks.
Workers have already begun digging a pair of wells just outside the gash so pumps to lower the groundwater level can be installed.
The motor will be only 90 percent efficient; so pumps, motors, drive trains and throttling valves along the way will lose more, leaving the plant with 93 units of energy.
An attorney who has been both an ally and an opponent of Fields in court thinks that Fields's aggressiveness "so pumps him up that sometimes he takes noisy public positions that make it hard for him to easily extricate himself without losing face".
The most immediate tasks are to fix a valve at the bottom of a 700-foot shaft in Dutchess County so pumps will eventually be able to drain the tunnel, and to ensure that the tunnel does not crack or collapse while it is empty.
Due to a lack of available head gravity driven flow is possible only over short distances, so pumps are needed throughout the system.
