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Stoopid CO2 melting those glaciers. Guess manbearpig is right. 😂😂😂👍
NYC has plenty of fresh water from their Catskill Mountains reservoirs and gravity aqueducts, so they don’t need to drill for offshore fresh water.
It would be a completely different matter if this underground reservoir were found off the coast of Los Angeles.
There’s water under the vast oceans?
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
Desalination would be a solution cheaper than drilling way out to sea!
There is no need to worry... 71% of the earth is water... There is approximately 326 million cubic miles of water on the planet and we have the tech to make all of it drinkable.
We will never run out of water.
“was locked in place under frigid conditions around 20,000 years ago”
It’s called the Laurentide ice sheet which formed the Great Lakes only 120 great grandmothers ago. You know, global warming caused the ice to form. /s
Do they even teach very basic geology in grade school these days? More s/
Perhaps it is time to trade that water for oil in Iran!
Nonsense. Can’t be that old. Die hard fundie Baptists have said the earth is only 6,000 years old.
Water flowing underground
Such as it ever was.
Forget the water there maybe a literal gold mine down there. Think I'll file a claim. Anyone want to invest?
Government will find a way to f*** it up.
WHY? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Transportation and exotic cribs included
Homogenization does not occur after all this time?
Salt water heavier than freshwater? Must be a ziplock🤪🤭
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life,
in the second month,
on the seventeenth day of the month,
on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open,
and the floodgates of the sky were opened.”
Gen 7:11
Translate this into Farsi and make sure it floods news outlets in Iran.
I wish oil would have been found instead of water.
Yea fossil glacial water flowed down dip in the last glacial wwhen sea levels were up too 400 feet lower so a lot of recharge zone that’s underwater was dry land at the time. Plus melting glacial runoff in huge amounts right over these recharge zones. Once covered in seawater and fresh sedimentation sealed the updip unconfined areas the water was trapped even though it was under seawater the sediments above it protects it from mixing or moving.
The real question is cost offshore drilling works for a substance that is worth $80-100 for a barrel that’s 42 freedom units worth. Water sells for $4-6 per 1000 freedom units it probably will never be economical to drill and exploit such a resource.
Desal using Israeli tech can get you a cubic commie unit (1m^3) for 53 cents that’s 264 gallons worth. That would be 200 cents per 1000 which is less thanHALF what the going rate is for fresh water in North Texas and most other palaces in the USA at that.
That 53 cents is delivered retail prices in Israel that includes, energy costs, O&M,capex, capex recovery, taxes and transmission and distribution. It’s all in. No one touches the them with desal they are the undisputed world leader. So with tech like that on the open market no you are not.going to drill baby drill in the open ocean for subsea freshwater aquifers.
Yeah I am a Hydrogeo Phd ‘12
“This is more water of the coast of New England, so why should NYC get any?”
Because NYC sucks?