Posted on 04/22/2015 11:59:33 AM PDT by ckilmer
Would "killing communists" be categorized as Crazy, or Not Crazy?
imho a pubbie republican candidate for president would be well served to make a campaign promise to sponser a government research project to kill the cost of water desalination so California could just draw water from the pacific.
I mentioned using the Pacific to a good friend of mine, rabid lefty, sweet person, and she asked what would happen to ocean levels if we drained all of that water from the Pacific?
I temporarily lost use of my words.
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OR, governor Moonbeam can rescind his recent orders accommodating the flood of illegals into the state, ‘cause they use water, too.
Some years ago an well known inventor proposed an interesting idea to increase rainfall in arid lands adjacent to oceans.
Large bodies of water have a surface layer a few millimeters thick, of much warmer water that strongly inhibits evaporation. If you can break up this thin layer, evaporation from the water skyrockets. While higher humidity by itself won’t cause rain inland, it makes it a lot easier to happen.
His idea was to construct floating wind turbines off the coast, that pumped and sprayed a mist of sea water into the air. As the cooler mist settled on the surface, it would break up the layer inhibiting evaporation and prevent its reformation.
By itself, the idea was sound. But it had an unexpected weakness, that he called “biologicals”. Basically all the sea life that clogged the intake pipes for the turbines.
No idea if he was able to come up with a way around the problem.
You should have told your friend that desalination of Pacific water would then simultaneously solve two problems: California’s water shortage and the rise in sea level due to global warming!
You should have told your friend that desalination of Pacific water would then simultaneously solve two problems: California’s water shortage and the rise in sea level due to global warming!
Whenever a liberal uses this word, hang on to your wallets...
No idea if he was able to come up with a way around the problem.
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the field of materials research is so advanced these days that they should be able to come up with a material or surface that doesn’t allow organisms to collect on it.
Actually, Cpt. Kirk has stated that “Washington has too much water” in support of his Kickstarter campaign.
True to form.../s
1. Massive emigration out of the state, just to reduce its water usage.
2. Switch to drought-resistant agriculture.
The more longer term solution is massive-scale seawater desalinization, especially with safer forms of nuclear power to provide the electricity to do such large-scale desalinization.
Like moving the agriculture to an area of the country which isn't in a desert?
The more longer term solution is massive-scale seawater desalinization, especially with safer forms of nuclear power to provide the electricity to do such large-scale desalinization.
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Agree but to do that the R&D needs to be done that will collapse the cost of desalination and transport such that its cheap enough for desert farming.
The odd thing is that all the technology is on the table to do just that but there has been no one around to willing to express the vision and make the push in the way the liberals do for clean energy.
This is something that the pubbies should really seize because its the key to making the 21 century successful.
and she asked what would happen to ocean levels if we drained all of that water from the Pacific?
I temporarily lost use of my words.
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me too.
Use Illegals (in Chain Gangs) to dig a canal from colorado High serras to the inland vallies of california—like the canals on Mars.
Tell her all the islands would sink but it’s a small price to pay.
Look, if the Israelis can do large-scale agriculture in their homeland (which is mostly desert anyway), why not apply what the Israelis learned to California?
The trouble is that such turbines have a tremendous flow through. And as ship builders have long known, paints strong enough to prevent organisms from clinging to hulls have to be incredibly toxic.
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