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Environment & Energy

NickB79

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2. Too energy-intensive

Reply to Politicalboi (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 26, 2013, 03:09 PM

Jul 2013

Pumping water in the quantities needed to alleviate a water shortage halfway across the country would be INCREDIBLY energy-intensive, far more than the current system of oil pipelines we have now.

Maybe if you set up nuclear-powered pumping stations every few hundred miles......

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Instead of piping toxic sludge AKA Keystone Pipeline Politicalboi Jul 2013 #1

Too energy-intensive NickB79 Jul 2013 #2

We do need better ideas Politicalboi Jul 2013 #3

I expect it will be easier to move people than water NickB79 Jul 2013 #5

This is getting personal ... but not unexpected. DreamGypsy Jul 2013 #4