Lake Mead water level video

[mitsuman47]

Desalination plants are a great idea and will eventually become part of the mix. Takes a lot of power to run them. They will have to decide between power for the plants or data centers.

If Cali uses the power for desalination plants, it will cause climate change.

If they use the same power to run the data centers, it does not cause climate change.

And, we can’t have any of that climate change. So, they get data centers.

It’s actually pretty simple math.

 

[4wd]

And many will say no nuclear power options just use wind and solar but make everything electric. NY city banned the use of fossil fuels in new construction. Many details on how many story building and other but they want to roll to all of NY state. Lawsuits of course in process.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/us/new-york-natural-gas-ban-climate

Took a new backroad behind some wind turbines yesterday - think they are +/- 7 years old and the oil leaks are halfway down the blades …

 

[4wd]

If Cali uses the power for desalination plants, it will cause climate change.

If they use the same power to run the data centers, it does not cause climate change.

And, we can’t have any of that climate change. So, they get data centers.

It’s actually pretty simple math.

I can that

 

[Dave Hess]

Looks like there isn't any water to demand!

I wonder how bad it will be in 5 years.

I was thinking about moving to Vegas a decade ago.

 

[2005jettatdi]

The surrounding states need to stop California from solving California problems by raping the neighbors.

Let me explain this. The Colorado River flows out of multiple states; Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. California's border includes a stretch of the Colorado. However, the amount of water flowing from California into the Colorado River is very close to none since the border is entirely desert and mostly an immediate mountain range. Therefore, California owns as much Colorado River water as they want to take. Any questions?

 

[mitsuman47]

Took a new backroad behind some wind turbines yesterday - think they are +/- 7 years old and the oil leaks are halfway down the blades …

Everything has to be a thick v thin thread around here.

 

[CleanSump]

Let me explain this. The Colorado River flows out of multiple states; Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. California's border includes a stretch of the Colorado. However, the amount of water flowing from California into the Colorado River is very close to none since the border is entirely desert and mostly an immediate mountain range. Therefore, California owns as much Colorado River water as they want to take. Any questions?

No questions because it's still a disgrace. The answer is the fake green hypocrites in California. There is no excuse for what they are doing. Any questions?

 

[svtrit]

Took a new backroad behind some wind turbines yesterday - think they are +/- 7 years old and the oil leaks are halfway down the blades …

Same here in Iowa. It would take a lot of oil to paint the pedestals the stain of oil they have today. Some are worse than others.

 

[SubieRubyRoo]

How about they cut California off and make them build bigger desalination plants? It isn't new and unproven technology. Gosh, there's smart people who figured out how to get Mexico's poop out of the water in the 19th century.

If the U.S. had built 1000 nuclear reactors across the country like the Nixon admin originally proposed, 100% of the fresh water used in the U.S. could have been made for pennies on the million gallons. Instead, they created the NRC to essentially kill cheap, endless, carbon-neutral electricity 6 decades ago.

It’s almost like JP Morgan himself had a hand in keeping things expensive…

 

[SC Maintenance]

The Colorado river accords of 1922 - which allocates the water by state - was based on faulty data. It was both poorly measured - they only had a few stream gauges at the time, and it was one of the wettest times on record before or since.

The total average since that time is 12% less and over the last 30 years is 25% less. The simple solution is that the states need to drop there allotted amount by those percentages and adjust them by year based on snow pack. Of course the politics between the states make this impossible.

The reservoirs will fill up again some day, just no one alive now will likely be there to see it.

This article covers it if interested, but essentially it says what I wrote above.

https://eos.org/features/fixing-the-flawed-colorado-river-compact