Vast Freshwater Reserves Found Beneath the Oceans
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Vast Freshwater Reserves Found Beneath the Oceans
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#2hmmm, the ocean's pretty heavy. i wonder what extracting an incompressible fluid from the seafloor's support structure will do to weaken it. will they fill it with saltwater instead?
i guess it shouldnt be much different than oil drilling :\
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#3Good, now we can put off thinking about conservation yet again! Our great-grandchildren will have plenty of time to think of something.
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#4We're contemplating going after harder-to-get fossil water because the easy stuff is depleted and can no longer keep up. Sounds like the situation we're in with oil.
In the case of water, which replenishes, the 'production cycle' is actually the global fresh-water cycle. If we dirty all of the fresh water faster than the earth can clean it, we're going to have to start drilling for the fossil stuff in hard-to-reach places. It's strange to think there would be drilling rigs in the ocean with people risking their lives and taking danger pay... for water. It raises a question in my mind: affordability. Who is going to be able to afford to buy all their water like this?
It's the next step now that there are several major rivers no longer reaching the ocean.
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#5hmmm, the ocean's pretty heavy. i wonder what extracting an incompressible fluid from the seafloor's support structure will do to weaken it. will they fill it with saltwater instead? i guess it shouldnt be much different than oil drilling :\
This might be off-topic but water is in-fact compressible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water#Compressibi...
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#6hmmm, the ocean's pretty heavy. i wonder what extracting an incompressible fluid from the seafloor's support structure will do to weaken it. will they fill it with saltwater instead? i guess it shouldnt be much different than oil drilling :\
This might be off-topic but water is in-fact compressible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water#Compressibi...
not off-topic, maybe just a bit too pedantic.
"The low compressibility of water means that even in the deep oceans at 4 km depth, where pressures are 40 MPa, there is only a 1.8% decrease in volume."
also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_platform#Deepest_oil_platfo...
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#7hmmm, the ocean's pretty heavy. i wonder what extracting an incompressible fluid from the seafloor's support structure will do to weaken it. will they fill it with saltwater instead? i guess it shouldnt be much different than oil drilling :\
Water is compressible, which is why we don't use it for brake fluid and safety critical hydraulic applications.
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#8hmmm, the ocean's pretty heavy. i wonder what extracting an incompressible fluid from the seafloor's support structure will do to weaken it. will they fill it with saltwater instead? i guess it shouldnt be much different than oil drilling :\
Water is compressible, which is why we don't use it for brake fluid and safety critical hydraulic applications.
Is it that or its conversion to steam at a relatively low temperature or its ability to rust out the brakes?
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#9hmmm, the ocean's pretty heavy. i wonder what extracting an incompressible fluid from the seafloor's support structure will do to weaken it. will they fill it with saltwater instead? i guess it shouldnt be much different than oil drilling :\
From a purely practical point of view, isn't the "community at large" worried about the "rising" sea levels? If we took the fresh water from the aquifers, then refilled them with sea water, presumably that would put a dent in the rising sea levels? I know, I know...just trying to be pragmatic.
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#10hmmm, the ocean's pretty heavy. i wonder what extracting an incompressible fluid from the seafloor's support structure will do to weaken it. will they fill it with saltwater instead? i guess it shouldnt be much different than oil drilling :\
> will they fill it with saltwater instead?
Push CO2, get back carbonated water? Then it is $1/liter + carbon credits for what doesn't come back up. :)