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card_zerolast Sunday at 9:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why can't we make pumps that withstand salt, dammit. It seems pathetic.

How about like a medical pump? Have a flexible polyurethane tube that's squidged by cams to pump the seawater through it. The cams stay in the dry.


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ColdStreamyesterday at 1:57 AM

Just because we wants something doesn't mean we can have it, or at least not at a price we will accept.

HPsquaredlast Sunday at 9:54 PM

It has to handle solids. Something more like a sewage pump.

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