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Originally Posted by robj3
Tony Stroppa wrote:
Richard's initial post suggested to me that this was an emergency relief capacity - enough to relieve a local disaster that was available to a given field team.
The 90 day food supply for 3,000 people being kicked around seems like a reasonable start, until area and regional Project assets are brought to bear on the situation.
The remark wasn't as silly as you apparently think.
Without oil extraction, refining and distribution, where's modern high-speed transport? What about roads, ports, airports? The factories that build cars, trains, planes and their supply chains? What about the common engineering and safety standards that underlie all of this?
Back to agriculture: there's a lot more to growing crops than combines and tractors.
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Pob,
If we're looking at a capacity to aid 3,000 people for 3 months per (say) a hypothetical 10 regions across the entire Project, then that's not out of the question at all.
Even with all those things you mention, high-speed transportation is not possible without mechanisation. Transportation, yes, but not the high speed kind. Likewise, without mechanisation farming is possible, just not modern farming.
Anyways, I just found your comment amusing, and thanks for the smile.
Tony