New Orleans *is* built like the Netherlands. But a really bad North Sea storm surge (like the 1953 surge which killed 2000 people) raises sea level by 3 meters. New Orleans has had *two* storm surges *twice* that high in the last 50 years.
Dutch dykes are built with the assumption that they may fail such that a major city will be flooded every 10.000 years, in contrast those in New Orleans may fail every 230 years. Furthermore during a bad storm the North Sea level rises more than three meters. It's just, that the storm surge barriers close at that height. Rotterdam
Sigh, Too many people here proclaim that nuclear power is the solution. There is actually very little minable U-235 in the world, so at most it is a stopgap measure. Furthermore building and disposing of a safe nuclear powerplant requires so much energy, that they're not so terribly efficient.
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I don't think that will work: ;-)
http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=58&a=7
I suggest using that military grade stuff.
Off course, we can help.
The best advice is to not build your pumps below sea level. You're welcome.
Sigh, Too many people here proclaim that nuclear power is the solution. There is actually very little minable U-235 in the world, so at most it is a stopgap measure. Furthermore building and disposing of a safe nuclear powerplant requires so much energy, that they're not so terribly efficient.
Thomas Kuhn himself has also been criticized extensively.
It's a superior wavelet based codec.
With ideas from Dirac.