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Re:Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California an... by yellowapple on Thursday June 30, 2022 @04:14PM (#31937959)
California's existing aqueduct system already moves water over greater distances. If Northern California can supply Southern California's water, then so can Coastal California supply water for Inland California and beyond.

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Lake Lahontan. Megalake. Barely alive. Gentlemen, we can refill it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic lake. Lake Lahontan will be that lake. Better than it was before. Wider. Deeper. Wetter.

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Re:Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California an... by jdsully on Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:00PM (#31938544)
There's the small problem of it being much more difficult for water to go up a mountain than down it.
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Re:Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California an... by bsagdiyev on Thursday June 30, 2022 @09:13PM (#31940900)
I mean the aqueduct system already pumps water up 1900 feet over the Tehachapi mountains[0], so that might be hard but feasible.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonston_Pumping_Plant

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Re:Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California an... by yellowapple on Thursday June 30, 2022 @07:57PM (#31940323)
That's where Nevada being a giant blob of untapped geothermal energy (not to mention open desert for solar and nuclear) comes in.
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