Captain Kirk Wants To Beam Down Water For California’s MegaDrought
The former
Captain James T. Kirk wants to crowdfund a water pipeline from Seattle down to
Lake Mead in Nevada to fix California's megadrought. That’s a bad idea. It’s
cheaper and better to build desalination plants. They produce drinking water at
a cost of less than a tenth of a cent per gallon. The
power requirement to desalinate seawater for a family of four is
about the same as the total power consumption of their refrigerator. Thirty
desalination plants would cost the same as what is being raised for a pipeline
and would produce a billion gallons of freshwater a day.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/04/27/captain-kirk-wants-to-beam-down-water-for-californias-megadrought/
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