Re:An artificial glacier growing in the desert (2017)
by jtbayly on Monday December 09, 2019 @01:20PM
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Does anybody know what has happened with this in the last two years? I'm curious if they are successfully being used.
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Re:An artificial glacier growing in the desert (2017)
by Retric on Monday December 09, 2019 @03:02PM
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At the stated 150,000$ to irrigate 25 acres this is in no way viable.
At a guess this is generally viewed locally as rather pointless as you can store far more water with a simple earthen dam. Basically, the hard part is having water in the first place not storage.
In terms of efficiency, spraying water into dry winter air likely resulted in quite a lot of evaporation. Further 150,000 liters of water sounds like a lot but it’s about 1.5 inch of water across an acre. Which is why you would need dozens if not hundreds of them per farm.