One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible. The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions.
i'm not an expert or someone like that but i'm just really curious, i wanna ask is it ok to move water to places we need it ? i think (this is just my opinion correct me if i'm wrong) even using sea/ocean water is already questionable because ofc in the sea/ocean there are fish,creatures,particels,bacteria,and other sea/ocean living things, if we use the sea/ocean where they live and their habitat, will it disturb them? or will something bad happen? sorry if my question seems dumb
@@starlostgirlie Right no we in the west USA us the water from the Colorado river. We use so much of it that it doesn't flow into the ocean anymore. Desalination plants on the coast can make drinking water for coastal cities but they dump the extra salt removed from the water back into the ocean and that does have very bad effects on the creatures that live in the sea. So my idea is moving the desalination inland. The salt can be used in other processes like lithium mining.
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One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible.
The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution.
Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions.
i'm not an expert or someone like that but i'm just really curious, i wanna ask is it ok to move water to places we need it ? i think (this is just my opinion correct me if i'm wrong) even using sea/ocean water is already questionable because ofc in the sea/ocean there are fish,creatures,particels,bacteria,and other sea/ocean living things, if we use the sea/ocean where they live and their habitat, will it disturb them? or will something bad happen?
sorry if my question seems dumb
@@starlostgirlie Right no we in the west USA us the water from the Colorado river. We use so much of it that it doesn't flow into the ocean anymore. Desalination plants on the coast can make drinking water for coastal cities but they dump the extra salt removed from the water back into the ocean and that does have very bad effects on the creatures that live in the sea. So my idea is moving the desalination inland. The salt can be used in other processes like lithium mining.
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What about going vegan? Meat and dairy products use tens of times more water than taking a bath 5 times a day. And it is so easy to avoid
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