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  • MikM Offline
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    wrote on last edited by Mik
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    I always said I did not know when the end of the world would be, but I knew where it would start - Los Angeles. A metro area of what now, 15 million? That doesn't have enough water for a million people. I was always amazed at how much automatic watering was done with all that imported water.

    It's a desert. No one should have grass and all that other stuff. Hardscape FTW.

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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    • MikM Mik

      I always said I did not know when the end of the world would be, but I knew where it would start - Los Angeles. A metro area of what now, 15 million? That doesn't have enough water for a million people. I was always amazed at how much automatic watering was done with all that imported water.

      It's a desert. No one should have grass and all that other stuff. Hardscape FTW.

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      @mik said in Drinking Problem:

      I always said I did not know when the end of the world would be, but I knew where it would start - Los Angeles. A metro area of what now, 15 million? That doesn't have enough water for a million people. I was always amazed at how much automatic watering was done with all that imported water.

      Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.

      Please love yourself.

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      • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

        @mik said in Drinking Problem:

        I always said I did not know when the end of the world would be, but I knew where it would start - Los Angeles. A metro area of what now, 15 million? That doesn't have enough water for a million people. I was always amazed at how much automatic watering was done with all that imported water.

        Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.

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        @aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:

        Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.

        I always thought desalinization was one obvious answer (not problem free, to be sure), but I came upon one problem with this that I hadn't considered before: what to do with the salt. Desalinization produces huge amounts of salt; what do you do with it?

        Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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        • Catseye3C Catseye3

          @aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:

          Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.

          I always thought desalinization was one obvious answer (not problem free, to be sure), but I came upon one problem with this that I hadn't considered before: what to do with the salt. Desalinization produces huge amounts of salt; what do you do with it?

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          @catseye3 said in Drinking Problem:

          @aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:

          Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.

          I always thought desalinization was one obvious answer (not problem free, to be sure), but I came upon one problem with this that I hadn't considered before: what to do with the salt. Desalinization produces huge amounts of salt; what do you do with it?

          If by some fluke you can't find scads of hipsters in LA to pay top dollar for sea salt, there are many, many manufacturing processes that require it.

          I don't think that's the bottleneck. My guess is it's the desalination and distribution itself that holds it back. It's likely an energy and infrastructure problem.

          Please love yourself.

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          • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

            @catseye3 said in Drinking Problem:

            @aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:

            Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.

            I always thought desalinization was one obvious answer (not problem free, to be sure), but I came upon one problem with this that I hadn't considered before: what to do with the salt. Desalinization produces huge amounts of salt; what do you do with it?

            If by some fluke you can't find scads of hipsters in LA to pay top dollar for sea salt, there are many, many manufacturing processes that require it.

            I don't think that's the bottleneck. My guess is it's the desalination and distribution itself that holds it back. It's likely an energy and infrastructure problem.

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            @aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:

            If by some fluke you can't find scads of hipsters in LA to pay top dollar for sea salt, t

            How much would they pay for polluted sea salt?

            Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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            • Catseye3C Catseye3

              @aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:

              If by some fluke you can't find scads of hipsters in LA to pay top dollar for sea salt, t

              How much would they pay for polluted sea salt?

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              Aqua Letifer
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              @catseye3 said in Drinking Problem:

              @aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:

              If by some fluke you can't find scads of hipsters in LA to pay top dollar for sea salt, t

              How much would they pay for polluted sea salt?

              Why does it have to stay polluted?

              Please love yourself.

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              • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                @catseye3 said in Drinking Problem:

                @aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:

                If by some fluke you can't find scads of hipsters in LA to pay top dollar for sea salt, t

                How much would they pay for polluted sea salt?

                Why does it have to stay polluted?

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                @aqua-letifer How much water would be required to unpollute it?

                Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                  See Kuwait desalination and Saudi Arabia desalination

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                  • Catseye3C Catseye3

                    @aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:

                    Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.

                    I always thought desalinization was one obvious answer (not problem free, to be sure), but I came upon one problem with this that I hadn't considered before: what to do with the salt. Desalinization produces huge amounts of salt; what do you do with it?

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                    @catseye3 said in Drinking Problem:

                    @aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:

                    Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.

                    I always thought desalinization was one obvious answer (not problem free, to be sure), but I came upon one problem with this that I hadn't considered before: what to do with the salt. Desalinization produces huge amounts of salt; what do you do with it?

                    Put it back into the sea. the water will end up there again.

                    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                    • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                      @mik said in Drinking Problem:

                      I always said I did not know when the end of the world would be, but I knew where it would start - Los Angeles. A metro area of what now, 15 million? That doesn't have enough water for a million people. I was always amazed at how much automatic watering was done with all that imported water.

                      Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.

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                      @aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:

                      @mik said in Drinking Problem:

                      I always said I did not know when the end of the world would be, but I knew where it would start - Los Angeles. A metro area of what now, 15 million? That doesn't have enough water for a million people. I was always amazed at how much automatic watering was done with all that imported water.

                      Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.

                      The company that has the largest plant in the Western Hemisphere has already put forth a proposal for L.A. The plant: https://www.carlsbaddesal.com/

                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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