Posted on 05/10/2015 7:07:34 PM PDT by knarf
Hmmmm ... hundreds of thousands of immediate jobs, very little expense ... no environmental impact ... California gets water
If they can find a place with enough water at a high enough elevation where no pumps would be necessary then it would work. It doesn’t have to be that much higher either.
Maybe I should just sit down and stop causing trouble.
I believe the Soviet Union took a run at this kind of thing. The result was the ruin of the Aral Sea.
If you drain Lake Superior, you still haven't re-engineered the desert. Plus you only get winter ski runs that descend about 1,300 feet. So the towns around Lake Superior still can't compete with Vail or Jackson Hole.
You just get the destruction of a fresh water inland sea.
Wow.
The envirowhacko’s would fight this.
“Hmmmm ... hundreds of thousands of immediate jobs, very little expense ... no environmental impact ... California gets water”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
“hundreds of thousands of immediate jobs, very little expense”
$$$ So we’re going to pay people nothing?
“no environmental impact”
$$$ Tell that to the environmentalists. They are led by people who don’t want development of any kind. In fact, they don’t want PEOPLE of any kind, except a few of themselves.
“California gets water”
$$$ And why the F### do we want to help California?
“Hmmmm ... hundreds of thousands of immediate jobs, very little expense ... no environmental impact ... California gets water”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
“hundreds of thousands of immediate jobs, very little expense”
$$$ So we’re going to pay people nothing?
“no environmental impact”
$$$ Tell that to the environmentalists. They are led by people who don’t want development of any kind. In fact, they don’t want PEOPLE of any kind, except a few of themselves.
“California gets water”
$$$ And why the F### do we want to help California?
There are farmers that used to farm farms that were intentionally turned into deserts .... THOSE, maybe
I’m too lazy to bother to look it up the details but I recall back in the 70’s the governor of Alaska wanted to build a water pipeline along with the oil pipeline. He was pretty much laughed at.
knarf, my FRiend, LA is very arid...12 inches of precipitation per year. It has been and always, sans plate tectonics, will be a desert.
BECAUSE IF IT WASN’T SUCH A POLITICAL SHITHOLE ... I WOULD MOVE FOR THE CLIMATE
They’ve welcomed water using illegals by the millions so they can grow heavily water reliant crops in the desert.
Even in the best light it was a disaster waiting to happen.
They have done this already... To provide the seething cesspool that is L.A. with water, Mulholland destroyed the Owens River Valley. Lake Mead on the Colorado River which also sends water to California is at a record low that it hasn’t seen since it was being filled.
No matter what you do... if the resource is not there a exploding population base shoukd not exist... because it is simply unsustainable.
Knarf, I’m not saying I’m right, but I’ve seen what diverted water has done in California. Northern lakes in the state are sapped of their vitality, and the recreational uses are severely curtailed.
I know this is different, because folks talk of diverting water just before it enters the ocean. I think that makes some sense so I’m not going to talk it done a lot just yet, but I think that fresh water flow into the ocean helps create a vital and thriving environment there.
Rather than have massive pipes and massive generation of suction to pull water and fish and everything else out of those rivers, I’d rather see communities provide for their own needs.
In Southern California, we should desalinize.
If it were done right, I think we could reclaim a lot of the desert. The stress on the Colorado River could be reduced.
There’s a water shortage growing across this nation.
IMO, there’s a lot of opportunity to be had for businesses to desalinize and sell the water over long distances, using pipes as you stated.
IMO< that’s the best way to go about reducing the water shortage.
I should also have mentioned that these coastal plants could also generate energy if nuclear plants were a part of the solution.
That’s an important factor IMO. Energy is also something we’ll need more of over the coming years, particularly in Southern California.
Well, I favor California Almonds. Blue Diamond is as good as any and better than most. I had some this weekend, and they repaid the effort.
Desalination. That is what you need. Not taking it ftom other areas. That is what you are doing now.
Enough water to make a difference would be tens of billions of dollars. Don’t know about the environmental impact.
Personally, I think the answer is nuke power and desal plants on the coast, possibly thorium type.
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