Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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Anyone ever check out molten salt solar installations? For generating power it's a stupid idea, but I wonder if the same principal could be used for desalination. Boil salt water with concentrated sun light. Not like we don't have deserts right on the ocean. Yep. Just south of Vegas.
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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Anyone ever check out molten salt solar installations? For generating power it's a stupid idea, but I wonder if the same principal could be used for desalination. Boil salt water with concentrated sun light. Not like we don't have deserts right on the ocean. Yep. Just south of Vegas. Ivanpah solar generating station….. lots of interesting reading on that folly .
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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Not sure I agree with this article about Beef cattle and shortages of Colorado River water: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23655640/colorado-river-water-alfalfa-dairy-beef-meatNot sure I agree with recent hour long PBS TV show claiming it takes 10 gallons of California irrigation water to grow 10 single tiny almonds, and that 8 of those almonds are then exported out of the USA to foreign countries. https://www.riversendfilm.com/I am confident that it would be a good idea to offer a $5,000,000 prize for best plan to transport seasonal excess flow Missouri River water through underground porous rock layers to the Colorado River watershed. Start of such a plan would be a prize of $100,000 to get amateur geologists to search & identify a natural water spring somewhere in the Colorado Watershed whose spring water can be somehow traced to a source in the Missouri & its Tributary rivers watersheds. Might be worth similar prizes to get Columbia River water through porous rock layers to Colorado watershed.
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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So the question is this: is lake Powell 70% empty, or is it 30% full?
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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So the question is this: is lake Powell 70% empty, or is it 30% full? The answer is that since it is a man made lake it is returning to it's natural state.
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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So the question is this: is lake Powell 70% empty, or is it 30% full? The answer is that since it is a man made lake it is returning to it's natural state. are you saying original state or natural man made state lake?
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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So the question is this: is lake Powell 70% empty, or is it 30% full? The answer is that since it is a man made lake it is returning to it's natural state. are you saying original state or natural man made state lake? Meaning that it wasn't a lake so it shouldn't have water in it.
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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are you saying original state or natural man made state lake?
That is an oxymoron.
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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So the question is this: is lake Powell 70% empty, or is it 30% full? Last night I watched the PBS “Wild Rivers with Tillie” episode on Glen Canyon “river” that has emerged from the dropping lake level. In 1980 I rafted the Colorado when river water flow and lake levels were near max, and the then permitted use of 5 HP maximum, extra muffled, gasoline outboard motors was about to be banned a few months in the future. Great trip, great devout Mormon river guides, great food, hair-raising end of trip helicopter ride out of the canyon using the “hot air thermals” to gain altitude by being VERY close to the sunny side canyon walls. Guides refused to let me swim on purpose 100% of Lava Falls ( like Robert Kennedy did) but admitted there was a real chance everyone in some of the rafts would end up swimming half of it. Guides ended my protests by saying: You may be needed to save your Mom & Dad’s lives if we flip. Then was guilty of further “climate warming sin” by attending the Mining Convention in Los Vegas. Won net $5000 at Roulette using the “Martindale betting system”, but had to “cover” one $8000 spin. Heartbeat rate was racing, and I have had a heart defect since birth. Wasted Youth
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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Drove over the Mississippi river bridge in Hannibal, MO today, we have some MASSIVE flooding here from the snow melt, the river was down 60% early this year, no barge traffic going down it, now the same thing for the opposite reason! I guess to keep you clowns in the west happy we will need to divert the Mississippi your way, huh?
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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So the question is this: is lake Powell 70% empty, or is it 30% full? The answer is that since it is a man made lake it is returning to it's natural state. are you saying original state or natural man made state lake? Meaning that it wasn't a lake so it shouldn't have water in it. Well dam.
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Re: Lake Powell is 70% empty
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I don't see how it would negatively affect washington or oregon once they get a little cash kickback for it being off their coast a little ways. The columbia makes far more sense than the missouri or mississippi, it could all be under the sea, wildlife can swim over or under it so basically no affect on that, a leak is just gonna put fresh water in the ocean that was already going in the ocean, pumping would be far simpler, you could run a 10 foot pipe with as much pumping as it can handle and it will not noticably affect the fresh water dumping into the ocean.
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