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Will We Have to Pump the Great Lakes to California to Feed the Nation? (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Holy hell, I swear people who write opinion pieces like this have no idea what a mountain is.

It takes about 30 Watts to move a gallon of water up one meter. Start running the numbers on what it would take to move water from the Great Lakes (500 ish feet ) over the Rocky Mountains and you should quickly realize how terrible this idea is.

Same calculations should be used to determine that farming at 1-2 thousand feet in elevation makes desalination a bad choice as well. But desalination can be used for all the people living near the coast and allow farms to use more of the water at the higher elevations.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Desalination tends not to be used by the coast because it's far more expensive than anything other than going without water.

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

It's far cheaper than it used to be