[Assam] MIT OpenCourseWare Update: Boat Design, Thermodynamics, and more

Wed Jun 27 13:02:23 EDT 2007

Need of the hour...!! Will be one of the mega projects of Asia.

Also MM'da and I calculated during my last visit- we can reclaim minimum of
1.5 mn hectares of fertile land from baba Brahmaputra.

-manoj

On 6/27/07, mc mahant <mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> <can it improve boats on Brahmaputra river?>
>
> Not the Pleasure kinds -Yachts/Canoes/hydrofoils.
>
> We need massive ones to first-time-ever dig and straighten a  2m x100m
> guaranteed deep 365x24 hr.bargeway from Pasighat to Sea, Walong to
> Sea,Bhutan to sea, to enable plying 4 rows of 1000 ton barge trains to/from
> our Export /Import Floating Dock system at leased Bangladesh safewaters or
> at Continental Shelf.
>
> Doubt if MIT offers these.
>
> Russia, Netherlands do.
>
> mm
>
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:23:38 -0700
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> Subject: [Assam] MIT OpenCourseWare Update: Boat Design, Thermodynamics,
> and more
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>
> can it improve boats on Brahmaputra river?
>
> Umesh
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> Subject: MIT OpenCourseWare Update: Boat Design, Thermodynamics, and more
> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:09:32 -0400
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> MIT OpenCourseWare Update: June 2007
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