What's the tallest human-made water spout possible?

[Bearflag70]

You dig a hole, insert your super fountain with nozzle, and let 'er rip. How high does the water go? How does it work?

Can you get a short burst of water up higher than a steady stream?

[drastic_quench]

Likely the Bellagio fountains made by a company called WET Design.

[Bearflag70]

@drastic_quench

Likely the Bellagio fountains made by a company called WET Design.

Super Shooters - send a water blast as high as 240 ft (73 m) in the air.

Hmm. That’s it? If the nations of the world put all their resources into a super shooter, they couldn’t do better?

[sitchensis]

The Warner Lawrence, a firefighting boat in Los Angeles, can shoot water 400 feet in the air

ETA: Not sure if thats 400ft straight up

[Cunctator]

The Captain Cook memorial in Canberra includes a water jet which can reach a maximum height of 147 metres (approx 482 feet).

[Bearflag70]

I was imagining some power source so powerful and a tower of water so high that drops could freeze at the top.

[Duckster]

@Bearflag70

I was imagining some power source so powerful and a tower of water so high that drops could freeze at the top.

I would think in some locations in winter the freezing would occur lower down in the spout.

[drastic_quench]

@Cunctator

The Captain Cook memorial in Canberra includes a water jet which can reach a maximum height of 147 metres (approx 482 feet).

Wow. Combine that with the Washington Monument, and I’ll have my own memorial.

[shijinn]

Angel Falls has a plunge of about 800m where the water ends up as mist before it hits the ground, so even if it does not freeze the main spout will “disappear”.

[Panurge]

According to the Wikipedia page on fountains the highest fountain in the world is King Fahd’s Fountain in Jeddah that shoots water 260 m (853 ft) into the air.

Lots of info on historical fountains as well.

[Unintentionally_Blank]

@Bearflag70

I was imagining some power source so powerful and a tower of water so high that drops could freeze at the top.

I was imagining a guy, lying on his back, who really had to pee. :smack:

[Ellen_Cherry]

This seems to be seeking a factual answer. Moving from IMHO to General Questions.

[Bearflag70]

I put it IMHO because I figured the responses would amount to WAGs, speculation, theories, and educated guesses, not facts. It doesn’t really matter to me either way though.

[Heracles]

Not really what the OP is looking for, but the turbopumps on a RS-25 (Space Shuttle/SLS main engine) could reportedly, in theory, shoot liquid hydrogen 36 miles (57 km) up.

http://www.pw.utc.com/products/pwr/propulsion_solutions/ssme.asp

[Xema]

@Panurge

According to the Wikipedia page on fountains the highest fountain in the world is King Fahd’s Fountain in Jeddah that shoots water 260 m (853 ft) into the air.

Actually, that link says that this may have been surpassed:

The Dubai Fountain, opened in 2009 next to next to Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, at 275 m long is the world’s largest musical fountain. The fountain was originally built to send bursts of water to a height of 150 meters or 492 feet. in January 2010 the owners announced the height of the bursts had been increased to 275 meters, or 902.2 feet.

[Heracles]

@Xema

Actually, that link says that this may have been surpassed:

The Dubai Fountain, opened in 2009 next to next to Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, at 275 m long is the world’s largest musical fountain. The fountain was originally built to send bursts of water to a height of 150 meters or 492 feet. in January 2010 the owners announced the height of the bursts had been increased to 275 meters, or 902.2 feet.

IMO, the worst possible spot to install the world’s tallest fountain is next to a skyscraper that’s about 3 times its height.

[Chronos]

The best possible spot, of course, being on top of that skyscraper.