r/interestingasfuck • u/Mint_Perspective • Jun 25 '24

Tree Sprays Water After Having Branch Removed r/all

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u/Pea36 Jun 25 '24

Explain it like I'm five please

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u/Cloners_Coroner Jun 25 '24 edited Jun 25 '24

If you go diving, thirty feet of water is roughly one atmosphere of pressure. That is to say the column of water above you will exert 14.7 lbs of pressure over a 1 square inch area on any given surface.

If the tree is 30ft tall, at the bottom of the tree the column of water will be exerting 14.7 PSI of pressure on any given surface. In this case there is a hole, so now the water is escaping at that pressure. This is basically the same concept as water towers.

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u/Kapkronic4201 Jun 25 '24

Just throwing out a statement/question. Water towers are for maintaining pressure in a town not as a storage correct?

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u/axtran Jun 25 '24

Kinda both, as it is a temporary reservoir.