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re: Lakes Mead, Powell May Not Refill ‘In Our Lifetimes’
Posted on 2/6/23 at 2:43 pm to LegendInMyMind
Posted on 2/6/23 at 2:43 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Of course it will, just as soon as the pipeline is built from the Mississippi River out there, it will fill in no time.
*Note sarcasm
I was discussing this with a friend who designs nuke plants not too long ago. The back of the napkin calcs on how much energy it would take to pump the necessary volume from the Missouri River near Kansas City up to the San Luis Valley where it could then be gravity piped underground to Lake Navajo.
Costs aside, it would take 3 or 4 nuclear plants to provide enough power, each one would of course require a shitton of the water just to cool themselves to run.
Long story short, never going to happen.
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Posted on 2/6/23 at 2:46 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
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Or they may refill in one year. No one knows for sure. A few years ago California was in its worst drought ever. One winter fixed that, then it went drought again.
Did you read what the guy said?
There is just as much, if not more, snow in the Rockies as usual. The difference is they are taking a lot more water out of these reservoirs than they did in the past. This is preventing them from refilling.
This post was edited on 2/6/23 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 2/6/23 at 2:46 pm to goofball
Sorry. But I don’t believe anything that comes out of the mouths of anyone associated with a government agency. We have degraded as nation so much, that it seems only degenerates are in charge of our public agencies.
Shame on us for tolerating it.
Shame on us for tolerating it.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 2:54 pm to goofball
Just have the Chinese use water balloons next time instead of weather balloons and they can supply Cali with all the water they’ll ever need.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 3:01 pm to goofball
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Lakes Mead, Powell May Not Refill ‘In Our Lifetimes’
And they'll tie it to "climate change" and not the millions of people who shouldn't be living in a desert.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 3:04 pm to DCtiger1
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They captured less than 20% of The historic rainfall the region just experienced.
You are attributing to a different region than this.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 3:10 pm to The Boat
They should be thrilled. Nature is taking back over and the desert is becoming the desert again.
Funny how they only seem to care about preserving nature until it’s in their own backyard.
Funny how they only seem to care about preserving nature until it’s in their own backyard.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 3:29 pm to Volvagia
I believe his point was that the stupid fricks in California are doing absolutely jack shite to help a problem they created.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 4:02 pm to BuckyCheese
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Did you read what the guy said?
Yes
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There is just as much, if not more, snow in the Rockies as usual.
So what? After several years of below normal moisture, one year of around normal won't fill them up, especially when:
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The difference is they are taking a lot more water out of these reservoirs than they did in the past.
My point is, even with the added withdrawals, mother nature can flip a switch and the freaking thing would flood. We know short-term forecast (some), and long term trends in weather/climate we do not know anything for say 6 months from now with any certainty.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 5:04 pm to goofball
I do my part by only buying Florida oranges.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 5:04 pm to goofball
Maybe.
Pesky reality has a way of doing shite like flooding the hell out of these lakes at some point in the future and people will shrug and just say oh well I gues that was wrong.
The drought and the flood will both be because you drive a v8 and eat meat tho.
Pesky reality has a way of doing shite like flooding the hell out of these lakes at some point in the future and people will shrug and just say oh well I gues that was wrong.
The drought and the flood will both be because you drive a v8 and eat meat tho.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 5:10 pm to LSUBoo
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Costs aside, it would take 3 or 4 nuclear plants to provide enough power, each one would of course require a shitton of the water just to cool themselves to run.
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South Texas Nuclear Generating Station
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Cooling source Main Cooling Reservoir (7,000 acres (2,800 ha), up to 202,600 acre-feet (249,900,000 m3) of cooling water storage, filled by pumping water from the Colorado River)
Pull it up on Google satellite view and take a look at the shear size of the cooling ponds of this facility.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 5:16 pm to redstick13
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I do my part by only buying Florida oranges.
As I recall cashews, grown in CA, take a huge amount of water.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 5:28 pm to BuckyCheese
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As I recall cashews, grown in CA, take a huge amount of water.
I always thought it was almonds that required voluminous quantities of water.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 6:01 pm to Cymry Teigr
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I always thought it was almonds that required voluminous quantities of water.
We need sensible almond laws.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 6:03 pm to Cymry Teigr
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I always thought it was almonds that required voluminous quantities of water.
Especially when we keep.turning them into milk.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 6:38 pm to goofball
All that damn rain in California went right into the Pacific Ocean as fast as it fell ?? idiots
Posted on 2/6/23 at 6:44 pm to DCtiger1
They don't want to capture it, they want a pipeline to the mississippi river to get our water. They would rather 80% of the rainfall go back into the ocean than to resolve their own problems.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 7:17 pm to boxcarbarney
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Impossible. I was told climate change would eliminate snow in the Sierra Nevada.
No you weren’t. At least not in our lifetimes. You are making a caricature of your opponents’ views so that your feeble efforts can overcome them. There is no need for that. Their views can be overcome in their native form.
Posted on 2/6/23 at 7:20 pm to Volvagia
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You are attributing to a different region than this.
No, that water could’ve been captured to replenish these lakes.
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