Bye Bye Lake Mead

LV426 said:
I don't know if she does or not, the point is that my expectations of your work were far higher than they should have been.

I should have known you'd never be able to deliver...just like you didn't deliver on 1/6, choosing instead to be a little bitch ass on JPP that day instead of the "patriot" you want everyone to think you are.
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Did AOC wear a Hitler T shirt too?
 
Well Lake Mead and Lake Powell ever fill up again?

Both Lake Powell and Lake Mead reservoirs are half empty, and scientists predict that they will probably never fill again. The water supply of more than 22 million people in the three Lower Basin states is in jeopardy.
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[FONT=&quot]Lone Rock Beach, a popular recreational area in Lake Powell that used to be under water, is now dry.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Photograph: Caitlin Ochs/Reuters[/FONT]






 
ThatOwlWoman said:
I suppose that the concept of water rights has a lot to do with that. Canada would have something to say about it if we started piping the water from the four Great Lakes that we share with them. Ditto for cities along the Mississippi River, if a pipeline were to take its water and send it elsewhere.
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there is already an agency made up of all the Great Lakes states and provinces that have to approve any use of our water......
 
signalmankenneth said:
Well Lake Mead and Lake Powell ever fill up again?

Both Lake Powell and Lake Mead reservoirs are half empty, and scientists predict that they will probably never fill again. The water supply of more than 22 million people in the three Lower Basin states is in jeopardy.

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[FONT="]Lone Rock Beach, a popular recreational area in Lake Powell that used to be under water, is now dry.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#6E7780][FONT="] [/FONT][FONT="]Photograph: Caitlin Ochs/Reuters[/FONT]
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let them drink beer......
 
Life is Golden said:
I wonder what causes lakes to dry up. There used to be several lakes in a place called Keystone Heights. I heard all the lakes have dried up now, hard to believe. Used to go there as a child to a relative's lake house.
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In the case of Lake Mead, there is way too much demand for water. Each lake is different. If it's spring fed, it stands a better chance.
 
Althea said:
In the case of Lake Mead, there is way too much demand for water. Each lake is different. If it's spring fed, it stands a better chance.
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Without virtually unlimited renewable energy, it's unlikely desalination will solve the problem....much less figure out what to do with all the salt. LOL
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Lakes dry up on their own or from mankind tapping them. Are you saying Lake Mead is simply drying up on it's own, that mankind has nothing to do with a man-made reservoir? Sorry, but I'm a bit confused on the basis of argument.

Are we agreed that drought, probably from climate change or at least worsened by climate change, and the local population for a several states around are draining Lake Mead?
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Climate cannot change. There is no value associated with climate.
Define 'drought'.
 
ExpressLane said:
So you don't think they use water and oil in the manufacturing of EVs? BTW A couple of gallons of coolant in an ICE will last for years.
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It will in the EV too. Yes, they have coolant and radiators. In a Tesla, for example, the motors are oil cooled, and the radiator is built into the motor housing. The oil pump is driven off the motor shaft. The batteries are liquid cooled, using a radiator near the front underside of the car (it's rather small). The pump for that is driven off the motor shaft as well.

The charging stations use transformers that are oil cooled, and powered from hydroelectric, natural gas, or coal fired power plants.

In the SDTC, they do not sufficient power generating capacity to handle the load of many EV's charging. They are about to lose the power from Hoover dam, since Lake Mead is approaching a level where power can no longer be generated at all (it's already severely reduced).

It won't be rolling blackouts. It will be BLACKOUTS lasting hours or days. It will take years to build the power generating capacity (even decades). Meantime, they will have to obtain what electrical power they can from tremendously expensive resources.

So much for the 'green' revolution in the SDTC.
 
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Dutch Uncle said:
Without virtually unlimited renewable energy, it's unlikely desalination will solve the problem....much less figure out what to do with all the salt. LOL
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I'm not Primavera, but desalination still isn't viable due to a number of issues.

We pay big money for salt in the winter in cold climates. Not sure if it would be an issue?
 
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