IE what are the areas we should be seeking to migrate as many people as possible to before shtf.
I never understood why a water pipeline isn’t built from the great lakes to the west coast, wouldn’t it be cheaper than desalination and solve the water scarcity problem?
It’s either that or let tens of millions of people die, it’s no permanent solution but considering the energy costs of desalination it may be the least environmentally damaging option.
Tens of millions of people will have to relocate, and billions of people will have to learn how to survive while consuming drastically less.
“But I’ll diiiiiiiiie if I can’t have 3 meals with meat, 1 liter of soda, a pack of cigarettes, 2 gallons of gasoline, and AC 30° below outdoor temperature each and every day!”
3 gallons of water per person per day is not a death sentence.
you would end up with thousands of miles of pipes filled with invasive zebra mussels, they spread like crazy and really fuck water infrastructure
Bullshit! America, Canada, providences, states, and cities have no legitimate claim to one of the largest bodies of fresh water on earth. It belongs to humanity and should be treated as such, that means distributing it whereever necessary.
I mean that’s a good way to spend excess renewable energy, keep it in a reserve of water at the top of a mountain when there’s excess energy, use power turbines to recapture the energy when it comes down.
That is usually done with 2 nearly-adjacent reservoirs on a mountainside, where you only have to install a couple hundred meters of pipe. It’s completely different from something that would run all the way across a continent.
What you are suggesting is that we create a river that runs uphill, powered by the electric grid. It’s not very feasible. Canals make sense but this does not.
