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> If you situated it somewhere like the atacama desert, then you'd be right on the ocean Well, the Atacama is 8000ft above the ocean, so the energy required to
by pacificmint 11y ago
> If you situated it somewhere like the atacama desert, then you'd be right on the ocean
Well, the Atacama is 8000ft above the ocean, so the energy required to pump the water up there would be significant.
- URSpider94 11y agoIn fact, about the same as the energy to desalinate it via reverse osmosis ...
- soperj 11y ago8000 feet? I'm going to have to ask for a source on that one. For reference, Whistler & Blackcomb are both under 8000ft, and I sincerely doubt there'd be drop offs that size right into the ocean.
- ectoplasm 11y agoGoogling for "atacama elevation" yields 7K-13K feet for me depending on the result.