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Aug 1, 2022
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Richardo
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It will be crazy expensive and take too long, but I think it’s absolutely
Necessary.
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Interesting idea to divert water from the Mississippi to lake powell/Colo. River
CrashMcLarson
8/1/22 8:46pm
It will be crazy expensive and take too long, but I think it’s absolutely
Richardo
8/1/22 8:50pm
I've been saying this for years. We used to build ambitious projects like this in America.
byuluvr
8/1/22 8:54pm
Desalination is ambitious. A mississippi pipeline is nonsensical.
Backcountry
8/1/22 9:12pm
I believe it’s already been deemed feasible in conceptual studies. It’s a
The Pope
8/1/22 9:34pm
The environmental costs should be a nonstarter.
Baylorbears11
8/1/22 9:39pm
The same people who are horrified at the environmental aspects that you mention
kotacoug
8/1/22 9:44pm
I agree that water usage should wel thought out and not
The Pope
8/2/22 8:50am
Building dams and waterways that are all within a 500' elevation difference is one thing. Getting water to flow uphill
unctoothman
8/1/22 10:14pm
Lake Powell elevation: 3,652 feet. Mississippi headwaters elevation: 1,475 feet.
Corn Pop
8/1/22 8:55pm
Ms Lippy’s car: green
Mike Honcho
8/1/22 8:56pm
1.02 kWh to lift 1 acre-foot of water 1 whole foot. Lake Powell is over 161,000
Corn Pop
8/1/22 9:12pm
One plant would raise it 10 ft a year correct?
kotacoug
8/1/22 9:28pm
Keep in mind, that was extremely rough, it's after 11 pm kind of math.
Corn Pop
8/2/22 5:55am
How many days do you think they plan to use?
Ted Lasso
8/1/22 9:32pm
California ought to divert funds from the high speed rail boondoggle to this instead
Mike Honcho
8/1/22 8:56pm
Desalination is the answer for California
SausageKing
8/1/22 9:08pm
Takes an enormous amount of energy. CA will need to solve that problem first.
seacougar
8/2/22 1:12am
Wasn't the idea to pipe water from the Columbia River south?
Busiturtle
8/1/22 8:57pm
Probably easier to divert the Snake down through Utah
Nat Gas Man
8/1/22 9:00pm
Much easier and probably better. Or the Missouri.
Turnpike Lane
8/1/22 9:04pm
Can't Elon Musk bore a tunnel through the Colorado Rockies?
Busiturtle
8/1/22 9:08pm
He needs to bore his way out of his bad faith Twitter deal first, then his
BlooCoog
8/1/22 9:17pm
That will never get past the salmon freaks
TheLoanArranger
8/1/22 9:14pm
Yep, that idea has been around for more than 100 years. Relatively easy to do,
Peter Venkman
8/1/22 9:49pm
First proposed in 1903. Article about it
Peter Venkman
8/1/22 10:07pm
Its only about 80 miles from the Snake River to the
Tysman Rap
8/1/22 9:59pm
This idea has been floated for decades. Moving water from one basin to another
stenso
8/1/22 8:59pm
Build a massive reservoir at the top and a hydro dam for the drop to power the
Nat Gas Man
8/1/22 9:01pm
Again, you can re-capture some of it but not all, and the difference is still a
stenso
8/1/22 9:03pm
The efficiency losses are negligible compared to the height differences
Corn Pop
8/1/22 9:15pm
I wouldn’t be overly concerned with the energy requirement, especially at the
The Pope
8/1/22 9:38pm
only 1/3 of Phoenix water comes from the Colorado system. 2/3’s comes from
kotacoug
8/1/22 9:41pm
It would take 200 years to build Hoover Dam if we started today
Busiturtle
8/1/22 9:03pm
duh, we have windmills now. All the power we need, it's water we lack.
BYUFBDAD
8/1/22 9:41pm
Ha. Floated for decades.
ForzaPuma
8/1/22 9:59pm
probably easier to divert from other basins like snake or upper Missouri
JackStack
8/1/22 9:01pm
Diverting from Yellowstone lake into snake River basin is a short pipe
rcbyufan
8/1/22 9:16pm
It would be much easier to build a pipeline from
jre85
8/1/22 9:46pm
Desalination also takes massive amounts of electricity. Basically a nuclear
Nat Gas Man
8/1/22 10:13pm
My Uber driver in Albuquerque was saying this was the solution to the drought along with….
Bonoman
8/1/22 10:17pm
It’s a good thing your Uber driver isn’t a civil engineer...
seacougar
8/2/22 1:21am
Water pipelinea from nidwest east coast great lakes to the rocki3s
CarolinaCoug
8/1/22 10:36pm
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