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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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