As I was scanning frequencies at lunch today, I heard that Rush Limbaugh was actually talking about this. He said that California grows pretty much all our fruits and vegetables (like 90% of our broccoli or something), and his suggestion was to build a pipeline from Canada or possibly Alaska. Melt snow and ice there, and have it run down the pipe to california's reservoirs. And so what if the pipeline leaks? It's water.
If I'd been drinking when you said "Dallas - Dallas" it'd have come out my nose.
There are much worse things here than hurricanes. Like Floridians.
I honestly have no idea... but it's water, not a nuclear bomb. If the pipeline isn't done in 12 months, it's not like California falls into the ocean.
Technically, the already have plenty of THAT water. It's not quite suitable for agriculture, however. You know, water, water everywhere, but not a drop to
It might be a bit dry here in Southern OR
IMO that's the better solution, but it's energy-intensive. When somebody figures out a cheap way that's NOT energy-intensive to desalinate water, they'll be richer than anybody else, anywhere. Well the corp that steals the idea then sues the original inventor into oblivion will be that, but you know what I mean.
Seriously, we would if we could. It is horribly dry out here these days. Technically the drought is in year 3, but before having a rainy winter 4 years ago we had another drought that lasted a few years. Really, this is one looooong drought that had a short break in the middle.
OK, what's really funny/creep about that is that I've seen the movie, but not read it, so unless the quote is in the movie, I didn't know it, and even then it was unintentional.
I've read the graphic novel but haven't seen the movie (big surprise), and they make a point of explaining that the current status of relatively "clean" energy was only possible due to Dr. Manhattan's ability to transmute large enough quantities of lithium so that every car could be powered by lithium batteries.
Well heck, 2008 saw a huge number of people leave California and an increase in new Texas residents already, just because that's where the jobs were.
And a HUGE THANKS to all the people from CA for our new standard of housing prices.....we REALLY LOVE you bringing your completely unsustainable housing market down to Texas.
THAT'S why Texas is (gradually) becoming more open to gay marriage and such. It wasn't the Texans changing their minds. It was those damn hippie Californians moving in and ruining everything!
You're welcome.
It's been my experience that it's unusual for anybody to change their minds about anything (big), once they're of an age (and I don't mean elderly).
I can not agree with this more. California has been buying water rights from nevada for decades (at least if what i was told while growing up holds true) and washington is a much better option. And the US wants a pipeline, give them this one. Nevada has its own drought to worry about.
Heh, this too i agree with
Funny you should bring this up.
As I understand it, most of the farming happens in the San Joaquin Valley, which for the most part has a mountain range between it and the coast, except possibly around the San Francisco area. In any case, I'm thinking that if it was THAT cheap and easy, they'd have done it already.
The Central Valley is not a desert. I don't really know what you're talking about.
