Posted on 06/11/2024 6:20:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
Just wait until they drain The Great Lakes. That would be the quickest way to starve out the entire population of the USA. Canada, too.
Luckily, people were smart enough to devise The Great Lakes Compact - but that doesn’t mean that Socialists will stop trying to drain them! Surprised that CA and the Desert Southwest haven’t been building vast pipelines to do so!
https://greatlakes.org/campaigns/defending-the-great-lakes-compact/
Is Idaho’s water authority located in Boise (blue city), by any chance? Has it been infiltrated by the Left?
We have the same problem in my medium-sized California city - we have been under strict water restrictions for years now due to a never-ending, “ongoing drought” - the the point where we have “water vans” going around looking to see if people are watering their yards when they’re not supposed to be. We’ve been under enormous pressure to “conserve” water - tear out our lawns, get rid of bathtubs, get rid of our swimming pools, not wash our cars. Our aged electric grid is also under enormous strain and is often at capacity, especially during heat waves - I get notices from my city during the day not to run large appliances or plug in EVs.
Yet, we are also under state mandate to built tens of thousands of new apartments in each city - these monster buildings are going up on the edges of my town - guess they don’t need water or electricty...
The latest local kerfluffle comes from a Utah real estate development company that wants to build 80 "town homes" on a plot of land adjacent to Ammon Park. The developer is very clear that these will never be sold. Rentals only. Pocatello city council is dominated by Democrats with questionable morals and financial motives. I don't expect the wailing from the citizens will have any effect on that development going forward.
You can’t drain the Great Lakes the outlet river beds are shallower in depth by hundreds of feet vs the deep center water bodies. Those are glacial lakes where the water is melt water from the miles thick ice that used to be filling those holes. The rivers between them are modern overflow features made by natural overflow on the last 12,000 years. In theory you could sink submersible pumps into the deeps and pump water out but even ten meter diameter pipes about the largest that can be made would only flow 6 million acrefeet per year and you would need a half dozen nuclear reactors running 24/7/365 at max output to pump the water up hill out of the glacial basins. So no it’s not possible to drain the lakes sleep well. You could at most take the top 100 feet then you have to pump against gravity the other 1800+ feet of water depth. The flow of the saint Laurence River is outflow and overflow from the lakes think about the size and volume of that flow that’s how much surplus water those lakes get every year via rainfall and snowmelt in the HUGE capture area of the Great Lakes region.
You could take 10 million acrefeet per year and send it down the Chicago River to the Mississippi River system and not make a dent in the st Laurence River outflows most years. Capture that extra flow at Cairo Ohio and send it via two ten meter wide pipes up hill to Denver 860 miles away and 5200 feet up hill. You need six 1000 megawatt reactors to move that much water uphill. It would cost 400 billion and solve the water crisis in the southwest forever. Denver already has tunnels through the continental divide reverse the flow and the water hits the Colorado basin and flows downhill via gravity all the way to Mexico. Yes I am a hydro geologist and have done the math and used ARCGIS to model this very project for the USGS. For less than what we are giving to the corrupt Ukes we could double the average flow of the Colorado River forever.
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