Majority of America's underground water stores are drying up, study finds
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Re: Majority of America's underground water stores are drying up, study finds
#2With solar energy prices plummeting, it may make sense during peak production hours to use it to do desalination and/or extract water from the air, depending on where you are.
Re: Majority of America's underground water stores are drying up, study finds
#3I think the future is going to find the past 100 years or so an insane time in history as we used all the fossil fuels and water up in the blink of an eye on the historical time scale.
Re: Majority of America's underground water stores are drying up, study finds
#4With solar energy prices plummeting, it may make sense during peak production hours to use it to do desalination and/or extract water from the air, depending on where you are.
they're testing some new tech that directly uses the sun to desalinate.
Really, what's required for the electric grid is ways to store the energy, and not use it.
For places like Arizona, they may need a whole different type of infrastructure of grey water use. Just piping in water ain't gonna be sustainable.
Re: Majority of America's underground water stores are drying up, study finds
#5Meanwhile Nestle is pumping thousands of gallons per minute out of aquifers to put into plastic bottles.
Re: Majority of America's underground water stores are drying up, study finds
#6Meanwhile Nestle is pumping thousands of gallons per minute out of aquifers to put into plastic bottles.
Literally 0 impact as compared to farming.
Re: Majority of America's underground water stores are drying up, study finds
#7With solar energy prices plummeting, it may make sense during peak production hours to use it to do desalination and/or extract water from the air, depending on where you are.
they're testing some new tech that directly uses the sun to desalinate. Really, what's required for the electric grid is ways to store the energy, and not use it. For places like Arizona, they may need a whole different type of infrastructure of grey water use. Just piping in water ain't gonna be sustainable.
Water is a lot easier to store than electricity. Desalinate while the sun is shining to fill a reservoir that you can pull from 24/7.
Re: Majority of America's underground water stores are drying up, study finds
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
they're testing some new tech that directly uses the sun to desalinate. Really, what's required for the electric grid is ways to store the energy, and not use it. For places like Arizona, they may need a whole different type of infrastructure of grey water use. Just piping in water ain't gonna be sustainable.
Water is a lot easier to store than electricity. Desalinate while the sun is shining to fill a reservoir that you can pull from 24/7.
True, but it isn't energy, and desal requires firm generation, so you're not using renewables that would've been curtailed but instead competing with load that needs consistent power. Still hopeful considering the cost decline curve of utility scale storage, but it isn't a silver bullet based on solar being free at noon.
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#10With solar energy prices plummeting, it may make sense during peak production hours to use it to do desalination and/or extract water from the air, depending on where you are.
they're testing some new tech that directly uses the sun to desalinate. Really, what's required for the electric grid is ways to store the energy, and not use it. For places like Arizona, they may need a whole different type of infrastructure of grey water use. Just piping in water ain't gonna be sustainable.
> they're testing some new tech that directly uses the sun to desalinate.
We should be implementing technologies we have now today rather than banking on something that might or might not pan out.
I don't hate the idea of piping water throughout areas or creating artificial enclosed canals of sorts.
But then I'm on the side of thinking that we should advance and terraform the planet rather than try to be more one with nature and cut back.