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We should flood it with seawater.
by zelly 6y ago
We should flood it with seawater.
- nsnick 6y agoIt would evaporate leaving salt.
- zelly 6y agoDon't stop, just keep flooding it. Aren't the ice caps melting? Eventually an ecosystem will form.
- redisman 6y agoLike the Dead Sea?
- alicemaz 6y agocould call it the death sea
- anigbrowl 6y agoThere's an ecosystem there now, people just don't want to learn about it.
- refurb 6y agoOk, a better ecosystem?
- AlotOfReading 6y agoLike the Salton Sea not too far away? F that, give me the clean desert over that mud pit.
- refurb 6y agoSalton Sea is indeed gross, but it used to be a lake, but then drained, so I understand it's a mix of farm runoff and dead fish. My comment was in jest anyways, nothing wrong with the Death Valley ecosystem.
- aww_dang 6y agoOne of the proposals for flooding the Salton Sea includes using the local geothermal power for desalination and irrigation.
- kethinov 6y agoContinuous inflow isn't the problem, outflow is the problem. With no outflow aside from evaporation, it would just get continuously saltier.
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- CameronNemo 6y agoYou just described the Salton Sea. Spoiler alert: people put terrible contaminants in the water that are now dust-borne, and it smells terrible. These are unrelated phenomena.
- 01100011 6y agoWasn't the Salton Sea filled by the Colorado River? I hope someday they connect it to the sea. The area below sea level, El Centro and such, is good for farming, but another inland port seems like a reasonable trade. I'm sure the residents would disagree though. Given enough time, nature will do it for us, as that is one of the rare places where a rift valley is forming on land.
- aww_dang 6y agohttp://www.fdungan.com/salton.htm http://www.fdungan.com/salton.htm "Metcalf & Eddy, a Massachusetts based firm with almost a century of experience in large scale water resources management, has proposed building two canals, the largest of which would be navigable for ocean going vessels. The cost for digging the U.S. section is estimated at $300 million, with the final pricetag for the completed canals approaching $3 billion. While this is indeed a considerable chunk of money, it is nonetheless a good bargain, considering the increased revenue in land and commerce taxes which local governments stand to gain."
- readarticle 6y agoThe state capital of Baja California is also less than 10 miles away from El Centro containing upwards of a million people dependent on the fact truck & rail are prioritized over US waterways, which is also at the center of one of Mexico’s very few easily productive agricultural regions (which relies on a canal that would be underwater). Mexicali https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicali https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicali
- baggy_trough 6y agoBecause?
- m463 6y agoNot too far north of Death Valley is Mono Lake. You go there and the lake looks... concentrated. I recall reading something Mark Twain wrote about it: "The lake is two hundred feet deep, and its sluggish waters are so strong with alkali that if you only dip the most hopelessly soiled garment into them once or twice, and wring it out, it will be found as clean as if it had been through the ablest of washerwomen’s hands." https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3177/3177-h/3177-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3177/3177-h/3177-h.htm
- derwiki 6y agoOff topic, but the tufas at Mono are incredible. But please stay on the trail if you go!
- EricE 6y agoThe lake looks concentrated because Los Angelas took all the water. Look up the Los Angelas Aqueduct.
- m463 6y agoI didn't realize LA reached quite that far away, but you're right. amazing.
- chrismorgan 6y agohttps://what-if.xkcd.com/152/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/152/ reckons that would not end well.
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