California has about one year of water left

Post by wnissen » Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 3:46 PM UTC

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It is hard to tell if you are trolling, a California farmer, or just being plain obtuse. tl;dr - NO. It would not make a difference. Google your question. The answer is below for you. Source: KCET article. February 10, 2014. California's water budget is skewed heavily toward agriculture. The conventional estimate is that 80 percent of the water used in California flows into the state's multi-billion-dollar agricultur…

No, I'm actually asking the question since Wikipedia's quote is "In an average year, about 40% of California's water is used for agricultural purposes". Which makes me wonder about how far down California is that it is now 80%?

Post by stouset » Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 11:22 PM UTC

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So would magic. We need to rid ourselves of the mythical notion of "abundant", meaning arbitrarily cheap, energy. There are only a few more doublings of global energy usage left before we heat the atmosphere significantly, not due to greenhouse gases, but by raising the equilibrium temperature of Earth as a radiating blackbody in space. TANSTAAFL. Every resource is ultimately finite. Let's live within our limits rath…

"Solar energy will be cheaper than fossil fuels by 2016", Dutche Bank [1] Recently Germany had reached a day with %50 of electricity produced by Solar. [2] [1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-29/while-you-... [2] http://theweek.com/speedreads/451299/germany-gets-50-percent...