Desalinate ocean water to irrigate deserts for food and energy crops
- por: Andy Smith
- destinatário: The world
1. Hook up every machine at every Bally's, Lucille Roberts, Curves, etc., gyms to electric turbines, and pay people tax-free to use them. Especially in America this would help obesity!
2a. Cover -- I mean cover! -- Tornado Alley with wind turbines that can not just withstand tornadoes but will get more power from them than from just a windy day.
2b. Cover large swaths of desert with solar panels -- this will also cool the planet.
3. Cancel and eliminate all car, boat and motorcycle racing, all demolition-derby and monster-truck orgies, all air shows, etc., etc., which burn up huge amounts of fuel for nothing more than our jollies.
4. We have Cash for Clunkers, so set up similar programs to encourage people to buy mopeds, motorcycles, Segue's, etc.
5. Desalinate lots of sea water -- our oceans are rising, so there's plenty of supply.
5a. Give the seas' salt, which has lower sodium, to junk-food companies, etc., so we won't have to mine it.
5b. Purify some sea water for people who have none to drink.
5c. Use the rest of the seas' water to irrigate the Earth's deserts, all of which have been expanding for decades -- if we can get oil down from Alaska, we can get water anywhere. But leave large sections of desert for solar panels as well as the wildlife that likes the desert.
5d. In those irrigated deserts grow ethanol-producing plants to help energy and global warming, and golden rice, etc., to help hunger too. We could also grow...
6. Dare I mention it? Industrial hemp! Why not replace half our tobacco crop with that? Isn't the government already growing *acres* of THC-laden hemp for the -- what is it, ten? -- people who have government approval to use it? Hemp oil burns cleanly and very hot, so it would help the energy crisis too.
1. Hook up every machine at every Bally's, Lucille Roberts, Curves, etc., gyms to electric turbines, and pay people tax-free to use them. Especially in America this would help obesity!
2a. Cover -- I mean cover! -- Tornado Alley with wind turbines that can not just withstand tornadoes but will get more power from them than from just a windy day.
2b. Cover large swaths of desert with solar panels -- this will also cool the planet.
3. Cancel and eliminate all car, boat and motorcycle racing, all demolition-derby and monster-truck orgies, all air shows, etc., etc., which burn up huge amounts of fuel for nothing more than our jollies.
4. We have Cash for Clunkers, so set up similar programs to encourage people to buy mopeds, motorcycles, Segue's, etc.
5. Desalinate lots of sea water -- our oceans are rising, so there's plenty of supply.
5a. Give the seas' salt, which has lower sodium, to junk-food companies, etc., so we won't have to mine it.
5b. Purify some sea water for people who have none to drink.
5c. Use the rest of the seas' water to irrigate the Earth's deserts, all of which have been expanding for decades -- if we can get oil down from Alaska, we can get water anywhere. But leave large sections of desert for solar panels as well as the wildlife that likes the desert.
5d. In those irrigated deserts grow ethanol-producing plants to help energy and global warming, and golden rice, etc., to help hunger too. We could also grow...
6. Dare I mention it? Industrial hemp! Why not replace half our tobacco crop with that? Isn't the government already growing *acres* of THC-laden hemp for the -- what is it, ten? -- people who have government approval to use it? Hemp oil burns cleanly and very hot, so it would help the energy crisis too.
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