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> In reality, water availability is mostly an economic issue. We don’t so much run out as we just use more expensive ways to get it I don’t think so. In realit
by gauviv 4y ago
> In reality, water availability is mostly an economic issue. We don’t so much run out as we just use more expensive ways to get it
I don’t think so. In reality, it is a major enegitical issue.
Desalination plants need a lot of energy. If tomorrow we lack of petrolum, how do you get water? Not with $
- sneak 4y agoOne thing the area around Lake Mead is not short on is cheap energy; it's a solar paradise now that PV costs are coming down so much. The issue is just getting seawater there, but that is a tractable problem.
- gauviv 4y agoThe PV costs are down, but you still need energy to extract material used in solar pannel. Thinking in $ instead of limited ressources (energy, metal, ...) in dangerous for plannification of the futur