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Are these repurposed oil pipelines? Or dedicated fresh water pipelines built specifically to replenish water supplies? I'd imagine as oil declines, the pipelin
by symplee 6y ago
Are these repurposed oil pipelines? Or dedicated fresh water pipelines built specifically to replenish water supplies?
I'd imagine as oil declines, the pipelines from the gulf might be able to send desalinated water back inland.
Not sure how feasible this would be, thoughts?
- readmodifywrite 6y agoThe issue there is desalinating the water in an environmentally responsible way. It's hugely energy intensive.
- symplee 6y agoThere have been some encouraging results recently. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22269115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22269115 In any case, the time frame we're talking about is 10-20 years from now. Lots of time for even more breakthroughs.