Re:The Gates of Hell
by sysOpOpPERAND on Saturday January 15, 2022 @07:32PM
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it would be interesting to use it as a way to pump water and desalinated it, then use that clean water to reforest the dessert by making swells in the soil that collect the water. but don't know the area, the ocean might be pretty far away
> Turkmenistan
> the ocean might be pretty far away
That, sir, would be an understatement.
To be fair Turkmenistan does border the Caspian Sea (the world's largest lake).
The nearby Aral Sea has been pumped dry, and the Caspian sea is dropping at 7cm/year though: https://theconversation.com/the-caspian-sea-is-set-to-fall-b...
Re:The Gates of Hell
by foobar1962 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @08:24PM
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Reforest the desert… surely humans have fucked up the environment enough times to realise that ideas like this only end badly.
Re:The Gates of Hell
by shadowgovt on Saturday January 15, 2022 @09:30PM
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To mine Bitcoin, I assume.
Practically, it's in the middle of nowhere. It has a clearly non-optimal shape for a boiler. You'd need to setup lots of piping and a steam turbine on potentially unstable ground. Since it's in the desert, there's no large body of water around so you would use a closed cycle system, meaning you need to turn steam back to liquid after you're done, limiting net power output. All to end up collecting a minor fraction of the energy, to send it... where?