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listening to NPR, apparently Sicily is in a horrible drought, a farmer interviewed said they had no rain in 13 months, his trees are dead -- nm

Posted by zeitgeist Jul 31 '24, 17:54

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meanwhile no nations are building desalinization plants offshore to stop the oceans from rising & help their farmers :((( -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 31, 18:06 11
- How exactly would they stop the oceans from rising? -- nm - mafic Jul 31, 19:16 2
  - By taking out all the extra water for desalination. - znufrii Jul 31, 19:20 1
    - right, because that destroys the water -- nm - loosilu Jul 31, 21:12
- Incredibly costly and energy intensive and would cause a separate environmental disaster from the salt at the scale required. -- nm - Reagen Jul 31, 18:35 7
  - fwiw Perth gets about half its water from desal. Managing the brine isn’t overly complex. Guess it could be if you were running ag on it. -- nm - mafic Jul 31, 19:19 1
    - Yes, at city scales, it's fine. Agriculture uses magnitudes more. -- nm - Reagen Jul 31, 19:53
  - companies will package & sell the salt -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 31, 18:40 4
    - Salt isn't difficult to come by and there's no value in shipping it long distances. -- nm - Reagen Jul 31, 19:51 1
      - This. It's hard to make it special. It has to be from France -- nm - loosilu Jul 31, 21:37
    - when's the last time you bought salt from bahrain? -- nm - loosilu Jul 31, 18:40 1
      - you don't remember the trip we made there? :))))) -- nm* - Peglegpete Jul 31, 18:58

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