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Originally posted by HossBog
reply to post by Agarta
Think it through. Cost prohibitive? Show me why. Tell that to the oil rich desert nations. You are running out of steam my friend. Want a glass of water? LOL
Originally posted by SelfSustainedLoner
All that hot air ...
Originally posted by SelfSustainedLoner
reply to post by ipsedixit
Only way I know to make sea water safe is to boil it with chlorine drops, with a spout that directs the steam excess .
The steam is freshwater, but still needs to be treated for heavy metals once it recondenses into a bucket
Originally posted by dusty1
2 Trillion Dollar per Year Geoengineering of the Sahara
Originally posted by HossBog
On a side note, lake ayre in australia was once a massive inland sea, most of it is below sea level. Why not fill it up? The amount of water evaporating from a shallow inland sea would be massive, maybe enough to change rainfall patterns in the red centre?
most of the water is lost through evaporation or absorption. When the lake does fill, it becomes temporarily Australia's largest lake as it spreads out to 9 500 square kilometres and at its deepest point and reaches almost six metres. This has occurred only three times this century, the latest being in 1989. The bed of Lake Eyre is the lowest area in Australia at 17 metres below sea level.
Proposals to pipe or channel seawater into Lake Eyre from the Upper Spencer Gulf date back a long time; one such proposal was seriously considered by South Australian Parliament in 1883. Lake Eyre is a usually dry lake which at its lowest point is 15 meter below sea-level. Flooding Lake Eyre could create clouds and rain for inland Australia, which could similarly turn desert into fertile land.
The water in the lake soon evaporates with a minor or medium flood drying by the end of the following summer.