Get rid of the illegals and send them back. Problem solved.
Get rid of the illegals and send them back. Problem solved.
Arizona should consider getting the water they need from the air!
https://news.mit.edu/2020/solar-extracts-drinkable-water-1014
Arizona should consider getting the water they need from the air!
https://news.mit.edu/2020/solar-extracts-drinkable-water-1014
The present production rate of about 0.8 liters of water per square meter per day
Let's say 1 liter of water per square meter per day can be produced by this method.
4 liters to a gallon, and there are 325,851 gallons in an acre-foot. So 1,303,404 liters per acrefoot. Let's say AZ uses 400,000 acre-feet of water. That's 521,361,600,000 liters, or the same number of square meters of material. That's 201,298 square miles of material. California is 155,973 square miles.
>The present production rate of about 0.8 liters of water per square meter per day
Let's say 1 liter of water per square meter per day can be produced by this method.
4 liters to a gallon, and there are 325,851 gallons in an acre-foot. So 1,303,404 liters per acrefoot. Let's say AZ uses 400,000 acre-feet of water. That's 521,361,600,000 liters, or the same number of square meters of material. That's 201,298 square miles of material. California is 155,973 square miles.
Thanks, but I was thinking that with some research dollars pointed in this direction, maybe improvements can be made. Right not getting copious amounts of water from the air is definitely not feasible, otherwise it would be in widespread use in various deserts throughout the world.
Thanks, but I was thinking that with some research dollars pointed in this direction, maybe improvements can be made. Right not getting copious amounts of water from the air is definitely not feasible, otherwise it would be in widespread use in various deserts throughout the world.
LA itself uses over 500,000 gallons per day or something IIRC. Also anyone who thinks that method is reasonable or would work is shortsighted. So we bottle up all the ramining water in the air of a farm to pour into the ground, where it then evaporates into the air... The cost, in water, of building such collection systems. The cost of transport etc. etc. etc.
You're creating a bigger problem of variety Y to solve a smaller problem of variety Y. They live next door to 352 quintillion gallons of water.
LA itself uses over 500,000 gallons per day or something IIRC.
Also anyone who thinks that method is reasonable or would work is shortsighted. So we bottle up all the ramining water in the air of a farm to pour into the ground, where it then evaporates into the air... The cost, in water, of building such collection systems. The cost of transport etc. etc. etc.
You're creating a bigger problem of variety Y to solve a smaller problem of variety Y.
They live next door to 352 quintillion gallons of water.
God forbid they built de-salinization plants along the coast. Can't have that.
God forbid they built de-salinization plants along the coast. Can't have that.
Agreed. California has a billion acre-feet of water at their disposal, they just need to get the salt out.
Agreed. California has a billion acre-feet of water at their disposal, they just need to get the salt out.
Desalinization is a cost effective and easy option. Wonder who's preventing that option.
Desalinization is a cost effective and easy option. Wonder who's preventing that option.
My guess is inertia is playing a nontrivial role. However as H2O supplies shrink, the pains of mandatory cuts to homes, businesses and agriculture will be higher than the pains of building desalination plants, and then inertia will be overcome.
My guess is inertia is playing a nontrivial role. However as H2O supplies shrink, the pains of mandatory cuts to homes, businesses and agriculture will be higher than the pains of building desalination plants, and then inertia will be overcome.
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