We need to fund a pipeline from east coast thru TX to the Salton Sea in CA. Since the source and destination elevation are not that much different, we can use the plasma drill to tunnel through the mountain and reduce need of pumps. Flood water should be piped into a pond/valley collection point along the pipeline and pumps activated as water level rises.
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We need to fund a pipeline from east coast thru TX to the Salton Sea in CA. Since the source and destination elevation are not that much different, we can use the plasma drill to tunnel through the mountain and reduce need of pumps. Flood water should be piped into a pond/valley collection point along the pipeline and pumps activated as water level rises.
Space based solar power is limited for a number of reasons. The biggest is up mass.
The largest solar arrays ever flown are on the ISS. Each set of two arrays came up as an integrated truss which contained all the equipment to deploy 2 sets of arrays, provide 2 axis pointing, battery storage, a radiator/cooling system, heaters, control systems and structural attach points. In direct sunlight at beginning of life they could each provide 31KW at the cost of ~ 36,000lbs.
Due to night passes, battery charging, power margins, etc each array was limited to supporting 12-15KW of continuous power. Now these arrays used really old cells. Newer cells are about 3 times more efficient so peak power with a brand new array today would be around 90KW with continuous power using newer Lithium Ion batteries above 50KW per array.
8 of these arrays like on the ISS would only get you to 720kw peak 400kw continuous. This is a lot of power for a space vehicle. It’s a lot for lunar use, but absolutely nothing for terrestrial power generation. It’ll also cost at least 300,000lbs of up mass
Quite frankly space based solar arrays indispensable but are also a huge pain.
Isn't it time to build that pipeline to take flood water from the Mississippi and TX to Lake Mead?
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'Get out now': Mayor urges residents to flee ahead of rising river waters in Mississippi | CNN
A day after warning residents of Jackson, Mississippi, to "get out now," the mayor of the state's biggest city is urging them to not take evacuation warnings lightly as record-setting rain threatens to flood streets and creep into homes within the next two days.
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Besides distance, there’s also altitude between the two points to contend with.Isn't it time to build that pipeline to take flood water from the Mississippi and TX to Lake Mead?
'Get out now': Mayor urges residents to flee ahead of rising river waters in Mississippi | CNN
A day after warning residents of Jackson, Mississippi, to "get out now," the mayor of the state's biggest city is urging them to not take evacuation warnings lightly as record-setting rain threatens to flood streets and creep into homes within the next two days.
I also suggested an alternative of using a plasma drill to go through the mountain and dump the flood water into the Salton Sea (it is below sea level). And in exchange, CA take less water from Lake Mead. Win-win. The states are desperate and money would be available to make this happen.
I am pretty sure AZ would love to take that flood water and dump it into their underground water bank. I am not too worried about Las Vegas as we have a straw below dead pool, so as 4% user of the Lower Basin, there's no way we would not get our allocation. AZ, on the other hand, do not have alternatives (desalinization) like CA.
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Frozen fresh water? We can drag some of these to drought areas.
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Zombie ice from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches
A new study finds that Greenland has more than 120 trillion tons of ice that can be thought of as zombie ice that's going to raise sea level globally by at least 10 inches.
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ElectricIAC
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Wouldn’t we have to buy Greenland first?Frozen fresh water? We can drag some of these to drought areas.
Zombie ice from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches
A new study finds that Greenland has more than 120 trillion tons of ice that can be thought of as zombie ice that's going to raise sea level globally by at least 10 inches.
The Hill: DRIED UP: Texas cities in fear of running out of water.
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DRIED UP: Texas cities in fear of running out of water
The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is examining the dire effects of the drought…
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Been raining here all week.The Hill: DRIED UP: Texas cities in fear of running out of water.
DRIED UP: Texas cities in fear of running out of water
The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is examining the dire effects of the drought…
Yep, and it also did snow Feb 2021, so everything is fine. LOL
ElectricIAC
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Are you really minimizing Feb 2021 because you personally didn't lose power?
How many deaths happened in that event? Not to mention $195 billion in costs.
Kind of like minimizing Covid because it just gave you mild URI symptoms. Who cares about over 1M americans, 6.5M global deaths - both of which are probably undercounting.
How many deaths happened in that event? Not to mention $195 billion in costs.
Kind of like minimizing Covid because it just gave you mild URI symptoms. Who cares about over 1M americans, 6.5M global deaths - both of which are probably undercounting.
Houston Chronicle : How California kept the power on when Texas couldn't.
California's power grid problems are more similar to Texas than Twitter critics might think
California's power grid problems are more similar to Texas than Twitter critics might think
Houston Chronicle : CenterPoint delays mean solar panels costing thousands of dollars sit useless on Houston roofs.
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CenterPoint delays mean solar panels costing thousands of dollars sit useless on Houston roofs
Solar companies, homeowners and trade groups say the time involved in getting permits to...
Yeah, amazing there were no rolling black-outs with record heat set throughout our State and record peak demand in CA. In terms of historical precedent, CA's event was more rare than TX's.
Any loss of power in CA was relatively minimal and confined to typical local transformer failures at utility level. In that sense CA was much better "summer-ized" than TX was "winter-ized" so was able to access dispatchable power.
Would disagree with the latter half of the article's claim that "California's connection to other grids isn't helping much right now. It may not have helped Texas much, either, during the freeze." If TX was connected to the Western Interconnection, Southwest/CA would have sent substantial amounts to them during their power crisis.
It's true CA does not have unlimited import availability during peak demand during heat waves as neighboring States often have simultaneous high power demand. But current plans to build out transmission into Wyoming wind and hopefully some future connection beyond into Upper Midwest wind would completely change this.
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