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I live in the Southwest - welcome to my world.

http://www.imakenews.com/cppa/e_article001293894.cfm?x=b11,0,w

http://www.uswaternews.com/archives/arcrights/arcrights.html

Lewis Black said it best - we took something as simple as water and have managed to completely fuck it up.

Actually I live in the great lakes region. (which is sometimes lumped into the midwest depending on who you ask) As long as you're thinking long term, why would you want to put more dependence on the aquifer which is already being depleted faster than it is being restored? It's bad enough that the great lakes states have to use legal means http://uswaternews.com/archives/arcsupply/5negorea c11.html to keep the rest of the nation from exploiting our resources in the name of business. Maybe the great plains people need to think more about protecting and using wisely what water they do have instead of better ways to deplete it all.

There are water shortages in parts of Oklahoma for one, as well as other places in the southwest United States like Las Vegas.

You can also look this kind of information up yourself if you have the Google on your internets. Ask your mom if you're not sure how to do this.

There are water shortages in parts of Oklahoma for one, as well as other places in the southwest United States like Las Vegas.

You can also look this kind of information up yourself if you have the Google on your internets. Ask your mom if you're not sure how to do this.

Ridiculous. People are against usage of Plutonium because it is much more poisonous than Uranium. (Not as a short-term poison, like some plants, there it is quite innocuous. As a long term poison, as seen in Chernobyl.) Thus final storage of Plutonium waste is even more harder to achieve than of Uranium waste.

You can call this reason political, and not technical, if you want. I don't.

Whats the cost per gallon (or litre) of desalination these days?

Get a bunch of decomissioned barges, plop a desalination rig on one, have it securely anchored in some storm resistant bay/inlet, and pump out a butt load of hydroponic produce! At the prices these asian countries are paying for fruit, I suspect there has got to be a *sweet* spot in there somewhere.

This blurb pegs a new design circa 1996 (nuke plant required) pegs in at 1000$/acre... Assuming thats per year (or even growing season), you could couple the technologies to solve alot of the problems evident in arid/thrid world countries...

Hmmmmm... anyway, back to reality...

That link refered to tires used a fill under the roadway:

From this article: ...the recycled rubber is piled to a maximum depth of 27 feet on a 4-foot gravel bed, topped with 3 feet to 5 feet of soil.

What's being proposed is a modification to the asphalt - more of a surface treatment.

...I think it has started to affect the introduction of leap seconds

Not likely. The proponent of this theory, Benjamin Fong Chao, a geophysicist at the Goddard Flight Center, estimates that dams have increased the earth's rotation by 8 millionths of a second over 24 hours in the last 40 years.

There were 22 leap seconds added in the 27 years before 1999. The Earth runs roughly 2 milliseconds per day behind a 24 hour atomic clock.