Posted on 08/04/2019 7:08:42 AM PDT by Hootowl
I think I've found a solution to several major problems in the U.S. By far the largest greenhouse gas is water vapor, 86-90% according to the EPA. I propose we build giant dehydrators on the site of crumbling U.S. cities. The dehydrators would suck water vapor out of the atmosphere which would be piped to marginally productive lands and used to irrigate giant fields of Ponderosa pines, a tree exceptionally good at using carbon dioxide. People in the affected cities who are qualified would be kept in place to maintain the dehydrators. The others would be transported to the new tree farms to tend to the pines. Thus, we reduce the two greatest greenhouse gases, water vapor and carbon dioxide, in one swell foop and at the same time make constructive use of some of our most mismanaged real estate.
And that’s your Green New Deal.
The best dehydrator is vegetation. Pump sea water into the deserts of Mex, AZ, Africa, India. Half the water evaporates into the atmosphere creating rain down stream. Half the water percolates into the ground.
Find seaweed and plants that can handle salt water.
Bingo! All of the global warming said he’s ignored water vapor
Maybe we could take all the people displaced from the city and put them on huge treadmills connected to generators.
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