Comment by adamc
4 days ago
Doing anything that uses a lot of water in a desert seems problematic to me. Water is only going to get scarcer in the west as climate change goes on.
4 days ago
Doing anything that uses a lot of water in a desert seems problematic to me. Water is only going to get scarcer in the west as climate change goes on.
I think the reasoning here is to have the fabrication being done away from areas where a natural disaster might cause an issue. No earthquakes, no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no heavy winter storms with a ton of snow, etc. If you locate it on an elevated area with good drainage there won't be any problems with desert storms/flooding either.
> Water is only going to get scarcer in the west as climate change goes on.
Predictions are all over the place but the average prediction seems to say that at least half the US gets more water.
Not in the west, from what I've seen. The state I grew up in, Illinois, is definitely trending toward being more humid.
If you've seen otherwise and have references, I'm interested. I'm thinking about where to live next.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-what-climate-models-te...
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth103/sites/www.e-educati...
These are the ones that showed up first.
Drying in the southwest is more likely than in the northwest, probably. The specifics are all over. But the bigger distinctions tend to be north versus south.