Water; Cool, Clear, Water, a litttle muddy is ok!!!!
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 25-02-2011
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Listen, I’m still pushing for the flood waters of the Mississippi to be pump to a series of lakes out west….Costly? you bet….Live saving? It might be a few years in the future and maybe sooner than later. Every state in the west is making plans to extend the water that we do have available. The Colorado River system is water for Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, California and down in Mexico…The Rio Grande waters Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico…The water starved states out west could all chip in for the building of a water line that only operates when the Mississippi and Missouri goes over a certain foot level and it pumps until the flood waters recede to under that recommended level. That water would be pumped to a series of lakes for storage and for pumping further west. Or, we can do nothing and take pot luck….One day soon, water will become more precious that oil or gas that we now pump all over the nation…Hey, locks and dams will work also….We could call it the Miss-New Mexico Waterway….(Have the Delta Queen sail into Albuquerque?)…..Oh, back to the pipeline, we can start working on it now or we can work on it later, but with the population growth in the west something will have to be done soon. Now, if I can find me a senator to sponsor this little operation….Maybe the Senior Senator from Arizona….Reckon?….Well, he could ’cause he sure understands, huh?…Pete Hester
Sorry! The problem in the Southwest is not the lack of water. The problem is overpopulation: too many people using too much, not just for personal and household use but for agricultural and industrial use. Besides, before such a project is initiated, it might be best to wait until the American financial house is put in order. At the present time, our government is busted; and I foresee our financial situation getting worse before it gets better. Another downside is the opinion of the people of Louisiana and the lower Mississippi. Even it only the Mississippi flood waters are taken away, it will destroy the the seafood industry, and I love seafood. It is much better than Mexican food any day. Such a project will completely alter the climate of the lower Mississippi as well as the climate of the Southwest. It will cause many people at the EPA to scratch the hair from their heads and cause Al Gore to develop another $13,000,000 documentary which we do not need. Why not just place appropriate controls on the population growth and allow the “Enchanted State” to remain enchanted, beautiful, and natural! As Mike Huckaby says on Fox, “This is my opinion, and I welcome yours.”
Assumming that the idea is a good one, the project is not practical or even economical if fossel fuels are used to lift the flood waters of the Mississippi by approximately a mile in elevation. A cheaper, more abundant, source of power would have to be found like, for example, nuclear power. Fission power is out of the question. It is too polluting, expensive, and the fuel is too rare and costly. Besides, it can be used to make bombs. We all know the current problems associated with nuclear power. People are afraid of it. The feasibility of such a project will depend on the availability of cheap fusion power. We are a ways away from that, although it may well be in our distant future, though I don’t expect to live to see it. The short term solution is still population control and water conservation.
A series of desalinization plants along the western coast of Mexico and southern California that will desalinize the waters of the Pacific Ocean and pipe it to the dry southwestern desert states, as it is currently being done to some extent on the Saudi Arabian peninsula, may be more feasible in the short term; but, even here, a much cheaper source of power than fossil fuel will have to be available. What is really needed is a Manhattan-type project to develop cheap fusion nuclear power, but I am afraid this must wait until our government gets its financial house in order as it will be a very long and costly project. Water conservation and population control is still the short term solution.
Sorry, I disagree…Mexican food is much better than seafood, hands down winner…Seafood is good and I would not want to lose it…Floodwaters would not alter the delta as there is no way pumps could keep up with the volume of water coming down the Mississippi during a flood…Not even close…The government does not have to be the one do it, only give approval for it…Either that or a bunch of folks need to move back to where the water is and we are already conserving it. How many yards are gravel in your area? Desalinization plants could be some of the answer and probably will be…Talk is ongoing….
But still it is not feasible without a much cheaper and plentiful source of energy than that of fossil fuel. It takes a lot of energy to lift water a mile high over great distance. Nuclear technology, as it exist in terms of the fission of atoms, will not do it because of its many problems. Fusion technology, that is taming the reactions that power the sun, does not currently exist. Sorry! Mexican food is not in the ballpark with good, clean seafood either tastewise or healthwise.
Who will do it other than government? It is too big a project for private industry, and much too big even for a consortum of state governments or private industries. It is a very big project to divert the mighty Mississippi and run it up a mile high mountain. It will be even a bigger project to pacify Louisianans for stealing their water, not to mention Mississippians, Arkansans, and Tenneseeans. It will be even a bigger project to reconcile the environmental damage and changes that such a project will bring to the entire North American continent. Again, population control and water conservation is the only near term answer.
Pumping sufficient water to alter the desert southwest will, indeed, alter the delta. Environmental change from such a project on a scale that will do the job will be greater than anything ever attempted by man on this continent. It will make the change caused by the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Project so insignificant as to be non-existent. At least, in TennTom the water is running essentially down hill. It is not being forced up a mile high mountain. Cheap energy is needed to do the latter
You can win on the water war…But you lose on the Mexican vs seafood war…You just keep eating that blaa, bland, heathy seafood….I’ll stay with the unhealthy spicy, mouth tingling Mexican food…..You missed one of my points…water becomes more valuable than oil, which we pipeline from Alaska…Existing pipeline could be cleaned and used as well. Pull up a map of the pipelines across America…I stick with my case….You are vastly overstating the issues…
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Maybe!!! But consider the economics! In today’s dollars and technology, the economics just don’t support such a project. Someday maybe!. It will likely be a long time before water becomes as valuable a product as energy. By then, our entire society and culture must change. In the meantime, let’s conserve energy and control population growth.
Have you priced water rights in the state of New Mexico? It is very valuable….Now…Today
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