Water -- Some Good News!
Making Liquid Gold Back in October, this blogster offered the BIG FOUR solution package for the pending water crisis. (Put your hand on a water faucet and believe ... because it's true and maybe the scariest result of coming climate change.) In short, those four solutions are: 1. Drip irrigation on a huge scale for agriculture. 2. A national pipeline system for redistributing flood water. 3. Catch and store every drop of rainwater that hits our roofs. 4. Desalination of sea water on a huge scale. This week in the Wall Street Journal was a great article about the technological and financial progress toward large scale desalination . Not "huge" yet, but promising. I like their graphic. (You might conclude this plant is run on pure solar power - it's not, but it should be... plus wind, geothermal and, heck, I'll say it, nuclear*. Anything but hydrocarbon energy.) Ring our sea-to-shining-sea country with bigger and better desalination plants, (sequestering t...