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> Los Angeles gets around a cubic kilometer of rainfall a year and if they just had a place to store it, they would not need to import water at all. Now that's
by simias 8y ago
> Los Angeles gets around a cubic kilometer of rainfall a year and if they just had a place to store it, they would not need to import water at all.
Now that's a bold idea but storing one cubic kilometer of water in an artificial reservoir seems rather complicated and I'm not really sure the technology developed by the Boring company would help greatly.
If I'm not mistaken and given a diameter of 3.8m you'd need 87 thousand kilometers of tunnels to store one cubic kilometer of water. You could circle the world more than two times with a tunnel that length.
- PaulHoule 8y agoYou don't need to store the whole 1 cubic kilometer to make a big impact. You could get that 1 cubic km of space by damming up the area where the Los Angeles River drains out out to where the depth of the ocean really drops off. Practically it can be done on a small scale. Some communities are starting to realize that they can either spend $1M on upgrading their sewer line or spend $3M and get a really nice and verdant park.
- simias 8y agoRight, I'm not saying that's a bad idea, just that it only seems tangentially related to what the Boring company is doing. If you want to store water then those tunnels don't seem very appropriate. If you want to transport water then they seem too large. Of course it's not like I have any expertise in the domain, I'd gladly be proven wrong.