Re:Plans for a new city in the American desert
by dreamcompiler on Monday September 06, 2021 @06:19PM
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Water is the biggest challenge. All the city's waste water will need to be recycled. That's doable, but to compensate for evaporation they might also need to pipe in water from coastal desalination plants if they cannot harvest enough rain. That's a lot harder.
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Re:Plans for a new city in the American desert
by kevin_thibedeau on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:14PM
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I'd be concerned about their ability to handle sewage which requires water for processing. Burj Khalifa has to have its sewage trucked out daily because nobody bothered to plan for the load on the Dubai infrastructure.