It would take 200 years to build Hoover Dam if we started today

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Aug 1, 2022
9:03:44pm

Busiturtle Truly Addicted User

We'll, I don't think you could build Hoover Dam today.

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Busiturtle

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Interesting idea to divert water from the Mississippi to lake powell/Colo. River

CrashMcLarson

8/1/22 8:46pm

It will be crazy expensive and take too long, but I think it’s absolutely

Richardo

8/1/22 8:50pm

I've been saying this for years. We used to build ambitious projects like this in America.

byuluvr

8/1/22 8:54pm

Desalination is ambitious. A mississippi pipeline is nonsensical.

Backcountry

8/1/22 9:12pm

I believe it’s already been deemed feasible in conceptual studies. It’s a

The Pope

8/1/22 9:34pm

The environmental costs should be a nonstarter.

Baylorbears11

8/1/22 9:39pm

The same people who are horrified at the environmental aspects that you mention

kotacoug

8/1/22 9:44pm

I agree that water usage should wel thought out and not

The Pope

8/2/22 8:50am

Building dams and waterways that are all within a 500' elevation difference is one thing. Getting water to flow uphill

unctoothman

8/1/22 10:14pm

Lake Powell elevation: 3,652 feet. Mississippi headwaters elevation: 1,475 feet.

Corn Pop

8/1/22 8:55pm

Ms Lippy’s car: green

Mike Honcho

8/1/22 8:56pm

1.02 kWh to lift 1 acre-foot of water 1 whole foot. Lake Powell is over 161,000

Corn Pop

8/1/22 9:12pm

One plant would raise it 10 ft a year correct?

kotacoug

8/1/22 9:28pm

Keep in mind, that was extremely rough, it's after 11 pm kind of math.

Corn Pop

8/2/22 5:55am

How many days do you think they plan to use?

Ted Lasso

8/1/22 9:32pm

California ought to divert funds from the high speed rail boondoggle to this instead

Mike Honcho

8/1/22 8:56pm

Desalination is the answer for California

SausageKing

8/1/22 9:08pm

Takes an enormous amount of energy. CA will need to solve that problem first.

seacougar

8/2/22 1:12am

Wasn't the idea to pipe water from the Columbia River south?

Busiturtle

8/1/22 8:57pm

Probably easier to divert the Snake down through Utah

Nat Gas Man

8/1/22 9:00pm

Much easier and probably better. Or the Missouri.

Turnpike Lane

8/1/22 9:04pm

Can't Elon Musk bore a tunnel through the Colorado Rockies?

Busiturtle

8/1/22 9:08pm

He needs to bore his way out of his bad faith Twitter deal first, then his

BlooCoog

8/1/22 9:17pm

That will never get past the salmon freaks

TheLoanArranger

8/1/22 9:14pm

Yep, that idea has been around for more than 100 years. Relatively easy to do,

Peter Venkman

8/1/22 9:49pm

First proposed in 1903. Article about it

Peter Venkman

8/1/22 10:07pm

Its only about 80 miles from the Snake River to the

Tysman Rap

8/1/22 9:59pm

This idea has been floated for decades. Moving water from one basin to another

stenso

8/1/22 8:59pm

Build a massive reservoir at the top and a hydro dam for the drop to power the

Nat Gas Man

8/1/22 9:01pm

Again, you can re-capture some of it but not all, and the difference is still a

stenso

8/1/22 9:03pm

The efficiency losses are negligible compared to the height differences

Corn Pop

8/1/22 9:15pm

I wouldn’t be overly concerned with the energy requirement, especially at the

The Pope

8/1/22 9:38pm

only 1/3 of Phoenix water comes from the Colorado system. 2/3’s comes from

kotacoug

8/1/22 9:41pm

It would take 200 years to build Hoover Dam if we started today

Busiturtle

8/1/22 9:03pm

duh, we have windmills now. All the power we need, it's water we lack.

BYUFBDAD

8/1/22 9:41pm

Ha. Floated for decades.

ForzaPuma

8/1/22 9:59pm

probably easier to divert from other basins like snake or upper Missouri

JackStack

8/1/22 9:01pm

Diverting from Yellowstone lake into snake River basin is a short pipe

rcbyufan

8/1/22 9:16pm

It would be much easier to build a pipeline from

jre85

8/1/22 9:46pm

Desalination also takes massive amounts of electricity. Basically a nuclear

Nat Gas Man

8/1/22 10:13pm

My Uber driver in Albuquerque was saying this was the solution to the drought along with….

Bonoman

8/1/22 10:17pm

It’s a good thing your Uber driver isn’t a civil engineer...

seacougar

8/2/22 1:21am

Water pipelinea from nidwest east coast great lakes to the rocki3s

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