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Gawd, this is extremely unpopular to say in some circles especially in California (looking at you Boomers of Sierra Club), but a West Coast Manhattan project on
by pj_mukh 1y ago
Gawd, this is extremely unpopular to say in some circles especially in California (looking at you Boomers of Sierra Club), but a West Coast Manhattan project on how to sustainably desalinate Ocean Water would make most of these “lipstick on a pig” solutions moot.
“Don’t use too much water in the dishwasher, don’t grow almonds, don’t build too many apartments, we don’t have the water”
Getting screamed at with all this while living next to a literal Ocean of water is just so tiringly frustrating.
- BugsJustFindMe 1y ago> project on how to sustainably desalinate Ocean Water would... ...be an engineering challenge that the world has not solved yet. We use a lot of water. I don't think you understand the scale of what you're talking about. All 16000 desalination plants in the entire world combined produce[0] only about 8% of the amount of fresh water the US uses[1]. [0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969718349167 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489... [1] https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/cir1441 https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/cir1441 But don't worry. We're working on improving desalination too.