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Desalination is also energy intensive. Shipping food from foreign countries is energy intensive. Starving because those countries also experience the effects
by 01100011 5y ago
Desalination is also energy intensive. Shipping food from foreign countries is energy intensive. Starving because those countries also experience the effects of global warming and decide to feed their populations first is economically and socially expensive.
Choose your costs. You're going to spend energy one way or another, or you're going to sacrifice your quality of life(or potentially your life).
I don't see this as being a convincing argument against a nationwide hydro grid, just one of many tradeoffs.
- thehappypm 5y agoHow about the argument that it’s completely unnecessary? Such a grid exists, they’re called rivers. We just happened to fuck it up and put the most water-hungry farms far away from the rivers.
- 01100011 5y agoThe places with the most sunshine and some of the most fertile land happen to be far away from places with rivers. The rivers are not a grid and we can't pull anything close to the full flow of the river for our uses without serious agricultural consequences. A national(or international) water grid allows us to distribute our impact on regional water supplies.