Put it right next to a nuclear power plant.
Build a couple.
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Build a couple.
Reminds me of "Franco" in "The Dirty Dozen".... "That's what they want! THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT!!!"
You might want to research that a bit deeper.
Almonds use between 8-10% of irrigation water in CA. And yes that is a lot of water. But alfalfa, for example uses more water. And if you kill almond production - this water doesn't suddenly become free, it goes to other crops. Makes no sense when almonds are such an excellent source of nutrition.
I find some of the reactions here evirocrowd following and not well thought through.
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You are quite right in that with the water rights agreement, that water would just be used elsewhere, as they are entitled to a specific volume of water, even if it isn't sustainable in the river's present condition. That would have to change (the regulation) before any sort of recovery for the lake would be able to take place.
IMHO, the answer is desalination for CA agriculture and torpedoing that water rights agreement. The watershed can recover, Cali gets to stop worrying about water availability and a more resilient and long-term solution is implemented.
This statement is absolutely factual based on decades of scientific research.
Many aquifers take hundreds or thousands of years to renew the water.
It IS mining. It IS extraction, to draw water from them as the water in them now will not be renewed.
The Oglala aquifer is but one of them.
Read the article I linked. From 12 years ago. This is a well understood problem…sorry…couldn’t resist that…
It may not be true for your well, but it’s true for millions of people. True for many millions of people in the Front Range of Colorado as many municipalities sink deeper wells.
Many aquifers take hundreds or thousands of years to renew the water.
It IS mining. It IS extraction, to draw water from them as the water in them now will not be renewed.
The Oglala aquifer is but one of them.
Read the article I linked. From 12 years ago. This is a well understood problem…sorry…couldn’t resist that…
It may not be true for your well, but it’s true for millions of people. True for many millions of people in the Front Range of Colorado as many municipalities sink deeper wells.
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That’s nearly all California Agriculture. Given that a large percentage of America’s fresh fruit and vegetables come from California, that’s not a particularly practical, or realistic, suggestion.
Ah, the Imperial Valley. Spent so much time there - look closely, you’ll see NAF El Centro on the West side of all that green.
Now that would be silly. I'm certain there are ways to transport either the water or the energy to a safer place.Sure. Right on top of a fault line. Take your pick!
Glad you're thinking, though.
This really does seem like a no brainer when you see all that water just sitting off the coast.
Since this was brought up a couple days ago I've been doing a little reading and it seems like a good solution even though it's not perfected and can be energy-intensive and actually make things worse if not done right but they need to keep working on it to make it better. Here is a good one form what I have read.
Also about half way thru the article there is a link to a place in Iceland that is sucking C02 out of the air, very interesting stuff here, great post this one.
Wouldn't we need significantly more electrical capacity to run desalination plants? I believe that uses massive amounts of energy.
I agree it's the answer.
Right it would be silly. SoCal is the big beneficiary of water from the Colorado so it would make sense to build the plants there, but you can't put a nuke in SoCal in part due to seismic concerns which is why I posted the map of the various fault lines in the area.
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Diablo Canyon and SONGS were both fine where they were placed. Water is transportable, and so is the power, there are options.Sure. Right on top of a fault line. Take your pick!
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Yep, shouldn't have retired SONGS...
Might make a case for a few new AP1000's, depending on the load.
Right now, it appears they are between a rock and a hard place, the alternative exists, just needs to be implemented. And yes, it will be expensive.
The aquifer below me fills very soon after a big rain. The state pumps water from the aqueduct into the Mojave river to recharge the aquifer if needed. Takes 3 days. Sure some may take longer.
Well of course they're fine up until the moment the big one hits. Although Diablo risk was really really low. In any case it's not like the state is going to be building new reactors any time soon.
It's basically run through a giant Reverse Osmosis system. Like the ones they install under your sink. Only giant size. The biggest thing electrical consumption wise are the pumps.
Some take several thousand years.
Some of the water being pulled out now came from glaciers.
You simply cannot extrapolate your property and say, “That’s how wells work.”
It’s how your well works.
But that fails to account for tremendous variation in geography, geology and topography across the country.
Read the article I linked. Or Google the subject.
I can't verify your statistics, but I don't disagree. But to your nutritional quality point, growing RICE in California is foolish beyond imagination. Drive up to far northern California. The extent of the rice industry is shocking. Completely flooded rice fields for as far as the eye can see.
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