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Buckeyeblue

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13. Why couldn't we use wind or solar energy as the power source for desalinization?

Reply to hunter (Reply #12)

Fri Jun 11, 2021, 01:28 PM

Jun 2021

I agree people have relocated historically based on environmental needs. But we have more people than ever before. We should look to corporations to help drive this relocation by moving headquarters/offices or at the least phasing them out. I'm not sure where these people will go. Are we going to create major cities in the Dakotas? People dont want to live where it gets cold.

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Scary shit... Maxheader Jun 2021 #1

Nobody is going to starve if those farms have to be abandoned. hunter Jun 2021 #8

+1 dalton99a Jun 2021 #9

Drought is awful. rownesheck Jun 2021 #2

And the rich are buying up water rights left and right. smirkymonkey Jun 2021 #3

It's too bad we don't have the technology to store and divert water from floods Buckeyeblue Jun 2021 #4

The dams along the Colorado River are very good at capturing floodwaters. hunter Jun 2021 #7

What about using oil drilling technology to get to underground water supplies Buckeyeblue Jun 2021 #11

Using fossil water merely postpones the problem... hunter Jun 2021 #12

Why couldn't we use wind or solar energy as the power source for desalinization? Buckeyeblue Jun 2021 #13

Wind and Solar are not able to provide energy 24 hours every day of the year. hunter Jun 2021 #16

Kansaas is STILL looking at... Maxheader Jun 2021 #10

Yep, advocates even have their own web page. hunter Jun 2021 #14

Farming is a complicated business... Maxheader Jun 2021 #15

I'm not a militant vegan, sometimes I eat meat and dairy products. hunter Jun 2021 #17

Can I dig a well? n/t HiramWisdom Jun 2021 #5

Soon to be the great north american desert Fullduplexxx Jun 2021 #6