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And water, which is becoming more and more scarce

• s5300 4y ago
  Carve out a giant semi-cone into the oceanside, acting as a static water inlet/basin. Line surface area of cone w/heavy mirror array. Desalinate thru concentrated sunbeams. Or something like that.
  • adam-a 4y ago
    They are building giant solar desalinators in Saudi Arabia so this is maybe not far from the truth. https://wired.me/science/environment/desalination-solar-dome-saudi-arabia-neom/ https://wired.me/science/environment/desalination-solar-dome...
    • seanmcdirmid 4y ago
      Getting water from the sea up to the desert would be a huge challenge in California, and right on the coast isn’t very sunny for most of it.
    • jhgb 4y ago
      I'm not sure what they're attempting to describe in the article but so far seems to me like a child's toy compared to a proper multi-stage flash distillation plant (which uses multiple stages and decreased pressures at each stage to massively decrease energy requirements) -- and even those should use more energy than reverse osmosis plants.
  • rejor121 4y ago
    California zoning laws wouldn’t allow that. And changing it would take decades of bureaucracy. I wish I was joking.