4 ms·
Dumb question: could we build a big pipeline from the Pacific Coast and just pump billions (trillions?) of gallons of ocean water to the Great Salt Lake?
by CyanLite2 4y ago
Dumb question: could we build a big pipeline from the Pacific Coast and just pump billions (trillions?) of gallons of ocean water to the Great Salt Lake?
- masklinn 4y ago> just pump billions (trillions?) of gallons The deficit is ~1.5 million acre-feet. That's 488 000 000 000 gallons / year. Or 1.3 billion gallons per day. As far as I'm aware, the largest pipeline in the US has around 1/10th that capacity (Colonial has a capacity of 3 million barrels or 126 million gallons a day). Also pumping that much from the pacific would likely annihilate whatever's on the other end of that pipe.
- gremlinsinc 4y agoWhat if we built a huge gulf basically down the plains just on the other side of the rocky's so basically there's a gulf splitting America into two completely by waters from the artic ocean or north pacific, I'm talking we dissect all the way north through canada all the way down through mexico etc. This would maybe create new weather patterns, in combination we'd need to plant LOTS of trees which also creates weather patterns to change, but we could terraform the utah desert to be more like the midwest, but it would be defense-budget costly to do so, but if it worked it could be worth it.