dominatrixjane
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should we drain the oceans now
by 1 centimeters per year
using solar powered desalination of seawater
then use solar power to pump
the freshwater in land where it is needed?
because 97 percent of the worlds water is salty ocean
water and not suitable for drinking.
ocean water volume is roughly 326 million cubic miles
(1.332 billion cubic kilometers),
according to a recent study from
the U.S. Geological Survey.
71 percent of Earth is covered in salty water.
2 billion people lack safe drinking water at home, more than twice as many lack safe sanitation
https://www.who.int/en/news-room/de...-more-than-twice-as-many-lack-safe-sanitation
money
2 billion potential customers just waiting for us to supply them clean water
even if we charge $1 per year that would be $2 billion per year
if we charge $10 per year that would be $20 billion per year
if we charge $1 per week that would be $100 billion per year
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/...-trillion-in-2019-and-7-trillion-in-2023.html
salt
we have to mine for a quarter of a billion tons of salt each year that we currently use.
pipeline
The world's longest pipeline is 2353 miles.
the Interprovincial Pipe Line Inc. installation,
which spans the North American continent from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada through Chicago to Montreal:
a distance of 3787km.
solar power
Approximately 12000 TW (terrawatts) of energy
reaches the Earth from the Sun.
That is 1200000000000000 joules per minute
More energy reaches the earth from the sun in one day
than the whole world uses in one year.
water storage
water can be stored under the land in vast aquifers as deep as 30,000 feet and as wide 174,000 square-mile .
https://www.livescience.com/39579-groundwater.html
aquifers underground can hold volume of water 100 times greater then amount that can be held on the surface of the land.
the aquifers underneath the Sahara desert were last filled with water over 5,000 years ago.
fertilizer
human produce 200 million tons of sewage every year
we could make this in to fertilizer and use it to turn the deserts
in to rich agricultural land and wildlife habitats
Deserts
Seen from space, the majority of the Earth's surface is covered by
oceans – that makes up 71% of the surface of the Earth,
with the remaining 29% for land.
what percentage of the Earth's land surface is desert?
Deserts actually make up 33%
Planting Trillions of Trees will Cancel Out Decades of CO2 Emission say Scientists
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.u...-years-carbon-emissions-plant-trees-lots-them
Planting Trillions of Trees will Cancel Out Decades of CO2 Emission say Scientists
There is enough room in the world’s existing parks, forests, deserts and abandoned land to plant trillions of additional trees, which would have the CO2 storage capacity to cancel out decades of carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new analysis by ecologist Thomas Crowther and colleagues at ETH Zurich, a Swiss university.
Trees are “our most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change,” Crowther told The Independent. Combining forest inventory data from 1.2 million locations around the world and satellite images, the scientists estimate there are 3 trillion trees on Earth — seven times more than previous estimates. But they also found that there is abundant space to restore millions of acres of additional forests, not counting urban and agricultural land.
“There’s 400 gigatons [of CO2 stored] now in the 3 trillion trees,” Crowther said. “If we were to scale that up by Planting trillions of more trees, that’s in the order of hundreds of gigatons captured from the atmosphere – and anthropogenic emissions will completely be wiped out.”
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/planti...out-a-decade-of-co2-emissions-scientists-find
and there are more than 2000 species of trees with
edible fruits and nuts and berries and olives and
trees have medicinal properties.
trees produce 21 Million calories per acre
trees produce oxygen and wealth and wildlife habitat and food and timber.
cows produce 1 Million calories per acre
cows produce
Methane which is 30 times higher effect heat-trapping greenhouse gas
by 1 centimeters per year
using solar powered desalination of seawater
then use solar power to pump
the freshwater in land where it is needed?
because 97 percent of the worlds water is salty ocean
water and not suitable for drinking.
ocean water volume is roughly 326 million cubic miles
(1.332 billion cubic kilometers),
according to a recent study from
the U.S. Geological Survey.
71 percent of Earth is covered in salty water.
2 billion people lack safe drinking water at home, more than twice as many lack safe sanitation
https://www.who.int/en/news-room/de...-more-than-twice-as-many-lack-safe-sanitation
money
2 billion potential customers just waiting for us to supply them clean water
even if we charge $1 per year that would be $2 billion per year
if we charge $10 per year that would be $20 billion per year
if we charge $1 per week that would be $100 billion per year
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/...-trillion-in-2019-and-7-trillion-in-2023.html
salt
we have to mine for a quarter of a billion tons of salt each year that we currently use.
pipeline
The world's longest pipeline is 2353 miles.
the Interprovincial Pipe Line Inc. installation,
which spans the North American continent from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada through Chicago to Montreal:
a distance of 3787km.
solar power
Approximately 12000 TW (terrawatts) of energy
reaches the Earth from the Sun.
That is 1200000000000000 joules per minute
More energy reaches the earth from the sun in one day
than the whole world uses in one year.
water storage
water can be stored under the land in vast aquifers as deep as 30,000 feet and as wide 174,000 square-mile .
https://www.livescience.com/39579-groundwater.html
aquifers underground can hold volume of water 100 times greater then amount that can be held on the surface of the land.
the aquifers underneath the Sahara desert were last filled with water over 5,000 years ago.
fertilizer
human produce 200 million tons of sewage every year
we could make this in to fertilizer and use it to turn the deserts
in to rich agricultural land and wildlife habitats
Deserts
Seen from space, the majority of the Earth's surface is covered by
oceans – that makes up 71% of the surface of the Earth,
with the remaining 29% for land.
what percentage of the Earth's land surface is desert?
Deserts actually make up 33%
Planting Trillions of Trees will Cancel Out Decades of CO2 Emission say Scientists
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.u...-years-carbon-emissions-plant-trees-lots-them
Planting Trillions of Trees will Cancel Out Decades of CO2 Emission say Scientists
There is enough room in the world’s existing parks, forests, deserts and abandoned land to plant trillions of additional trees, which would have the CO2 storage capacity to cancel out decades of carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new analysis by ecologist Thomas Crowther and colleagues at ETH Zurich, a Swiss university.
Trees are “our most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change,” Crowther told The Independent. Combining forest inventory data from 1.2 million locations around the world and satellite images, the scientists estimate there are 3 trillion trees on Earth — seven times more than previous estimates. But they also found that there is abundant space to restore millions of acres of additional forests, not counting urban and agricultural land.
“There’s 400 gigatons [of CO2 stored] now in the 3 trillion trees,” Crowther said. “If we were to scale that up by Planting trillions of more trees, that’s in the order of hundreds of gigatons captured from the atmosphere – and anthropogenic emissions will completely be wiped out.”
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/planti...out-a-decade-of-co2-emissions-scientists-find
and there are more than 2000 species of trees with
edible fruits and nuts and berries and olives and
trees have medicinal properties.
trees produce 21 Million calories per acre
trees produce oxygen and wealth and wildlife habitat and food and timber.
cows produce 1 Million calories per acre
cows produce
Methane which is 30 times higher effect heat-trapping greenhouse gas
