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Originally Posted by red-beard View Post
The pipe is 9" in diameter. At 60,000 barrels per day, the flow rate is about 30 gallons per second (120 liters per second) and the velocity is around 9 feet per second (3 meters per second).

Somewhere down the pipe, the diameter is reduced to 7".
How much power would a radio controlled torpedo need to force its way against a flow like that? My idea is to make a torpedo/plug and drive it into the hole. Could then expand itself and get stuck in there.
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