Good Point, one idea is a aqueduct/canal/pipeline from the Columbia River which has a discharge rate FAR beyond all the other California aqueducts combined.
I'd say bring it down the coast at a flat elevation thus near zero energy requirements.
Would be a good project to put ppl back to work much like the CCC of the last Great Recession...
85+% of water is used for Agriculture and Industry.
The majority of California water is used by the agricultural industry. About 80-85% of all developed water in California is used for agricultural purposes. This water irrigates almost 29 million acres (120,000 km2), which grows 350 different crops.[8] Urban users consume 10% of the water, or around 8,700,000 acre feet (10.7 km3).[9] Industry receives the remnant of the water supply.[10]
I think they could setup solar thermal powered pumps.
Also the rights to the ground water are totally available to the farmer.
This is more about cheap water, then the totality of water.
There is enough groundwater to do what they need, but they will need to mind recharge rates if they switch to a major pumping operation or they end up like the Oolagah Aquifer which is becoming depleted.
"Only an idiot wants to put resources needed for the most basic survival in the market."
I think you need to replace idiot with sociopath/psychopath as most only care about themselves, and they are hard wired that way.
The mental evaluation of most corporations in the film "The Corporation" shows them to fit this mental make up quite often, as well as a large number of politicians.
Yeah alot of ppl don't realize that residential use inside the home goes to the water treatment plant, then back into the system. Things like lawn watering need to end though, its not practical.
Pool covers need to be made mandatory.
The top usage of water in California is agriculture, and a large portion of it is lost due to evaporation.
If they used a water method similar to wicking, they'd get much lower evaporation rates.
Myself and others have said a water pipeline from the Columbia river would solve their water problems, but I don't think they want spend that much money.
I think the non-operating desalination plants could be brought back online but power them via solar thermal as California has plenty of that in this drought.
Also a large amount of groundwater is available, but it needs to be used at a max rate matching the recharge rate, and no more.
The groundwater could be pumped via solar and windpower to help with long term costs.
I can imagine a world where unlimited power allows us to transform matter, and robots and nanobots can build or repair anything including us.
I can imagine a world where humans and machine merge and we become the borg.
Hopefully we will have a nicer disposition as long as the worst elements of society are not in control of the creation of this event as they currently seem to be.
Gold has been seen in the ash of LENR reactions, if we truly hit near unlimited power and Fusion is common place I see a day when the 1 electron shift from lead to gold happens.
This will happen for other elements as well, and as the universe has created these elements so well we.
We are on the verge of whole order or magnitude of shift technology wise.
At some point I think ppl will sprinkle nanobots on their trash, and it will revert to raw elements and be sent to something far more advanced then what we currently call 3D printers.
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Yeah the farmers need to shift to a water wicking method or something similar.
The high evaporation rates is what is using up a lot of the water.
http://0.tqn.com/d/gardening/1...
There are already numerous water transportation aqueducts all over that region.
Oregon can sell the water to California much the same way its done via the
other Aqueducts.
Your forgetting this is already being done from other states.
You reacted emotionally rather than looking at how it is already done.
Only 10% of the water used in California is home users, 85% is Agriculture, 5% is Industry.
Home users are not the issue here, much like politics and wall street, greed is the issue.
Yes Lake Mead is at 48% of full pool.
Unless they get a large amount of run off due to show melt, I don't see it
getting much better at current usage rates.
http://lakemead.water-data.com...
Yes 85% of water usage in California is Agriculture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Bait and switch, incremental robbery.
The politicians are all on board for doing whatever the money ppl tell them to do.
The sheeple are getting sheared year in and year out, and that game isn't
going to change til most ppl see it for what is.
The CA home user uses about 10% of the water, the other 90% is used by Agriculture and Industry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
It is a manufactured crisis, ala Rahm "never let a good crisis go to waste".
They have enough groundwater, they just don't want to pump it.
The long and short of it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
The funny thing is they could use a sand filter to 100% stop the fish being killed
and transfer the water thru the sand into the system.
Sand filter is old tech and requires zero power.
Good Point, one idea is a aqueduct/canal/pipeline from the Columbia River which has a discharge rate FAR beyond
all the other California aqueducts combined.
I'd say bring it down the coast at a flat elevation thus near zero energy requirements.
Would be a good project to put ppl back to work much like the CCC of the last Great Recession...
85+% of water is used for Agriculture and Industry.
The majority of California water is used by the agricultural industry. About 80-85% of all developed water in California is used for agricultural purposes. This water irrigates almost 29 million acres (120,000 km2), which grows 350 different crops.[8] Urban users consume 10% of the water, or around 8,700,000 acre feet (10.7 km3).[9] Industry receives the remnant of the water supply.[10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Actually per the wiki on California water most of the groundwater is not being used because it requires
energy to pump it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
I think they could setup solar thermal powered pumps.
Also the rights to the ground water are totally available to the farmer.
This is more about cheap water, then the totality of water.
There is enough groundwater to do what they need, but they will need to
mind recharge rates if they switch to a major pumping operation or they
end up like the Oolagah Aquifer which is becoming depleted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If they switched to some type of wicking method for watering it would
massively reduce their evaporation losses.
"Only an idiot wants to put resources needed for the most basic survival in the market."
I think you need to replace idiot with sociopath/psychopath as most only care about
themselves, and they are hard wired that way.
The mental evaluation of most corporations in the film "The Corporation" shows them to
fit this mental make up quite often, as well as a large number of politicians.
Yeah alot of ppl don't realize that residential use inside the home goes to the water treatment plant,
then back into the system. Things like lawn watering need to end though, its not practical.
Pool covers need to be made mandatory.
The top usage of water in California is agriculture, and a large portion of it is lost due to evaporation.
If they used a water method similar to wicking, they'd get much lower evaporation rates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Myself and others have said a water pipeline from the Columbia river would solve their water problems,
but I don't think they want spend that much money.
I think the non-operating desalination plants could be brought back online but power them via solar
thermal as California has plenty of that in this drought.
Also a large amount of groundwater is available, but it needs to be used at a max rate matching the
recharge rate, and no more.
The groundwater could be pumped via solar and windpower to help with long term costs.
I tend to like MInecraft modded FTB, its a 90+ mods add-on for base minecraft.
Check out some of the youtube vids.
I'd prefer geothermal, its been working in iceland, and with new binary cycle designs lower
temp boreholes would work.
In the not too distant future ppl will 3D print carbon nano tube graphene solar cells,
and the cost will fall over time.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
Like humans take steroids now, future humans will mod themselves via designer DNA
and cybernetic implants.
Some if not most of us of us will likely become the borg.
There will come a time when a robot can do anything that the great artistic masters
of the past did, and it will be a 100% replica.
I am not saying it will happen soon, but at some time in the distant future
an Android will exceed its human creators.
When the Android creates a better Android then we ever have we are in ... trouble...
Travel will be so fast in the distant future that our current methods will seem silly.
There are already plans for multi mach trains in vacuum tubes that have near zero
aerodynamic resistance due to the vacuum in the tube.
The hold ups at present is the power source, and super conductors.
Both are feasible and being worked toward presently.
I can imagine a world where unlimited power allows us to transform matter,
and robots and nanobots can build or repair anything including us.
I can imagine a world where humans and machine merge and we become the borg.
Hopefully we will have a nicer disposition as long as the worst elements of society
are not in control of the creation of this event as they currently seem to be.
Gold has been seen in the ash of LENR reactions, if we truly hit near unlimited power
and Fusion is common place I see a day when the 1 electron shift from lead to gold happens.
This will happen for other elements as well, and as the universe has created these elements so well we.
We are on the verge of whole order or magnitude of shift technology wise.
Some of it will even be biological.
The current TV is like to be replaced by a laser projector that will be part of their cellphone
or whatever will pass for a cellphone in the future.
That or google glasses will get retinal projection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This tech getting hacked is why I will likely be a very late adopter of it.
At some point I think ppl will sprinkle nanobots on their trash, and it will revert to raw elements
and be sent to something far more advanced then what we currently call 3D printers.
Synthetic brain project:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...