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Re:How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting Groundwater by ajb on Sunday March 17, 2024 @06:17AM (#39733289)
What difficulty do you see? It's not going to be enough to appreciably change the ocean area, so isn't it just volume divided by the area of the ocean?
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Re:How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting Groundwater by hinkley on Sunday March 17, 2024 @04:42PM (#39737875)
I think it would be 1) how accurate are aquifer and coastline topography measures (1 mm wouldn’t be far off but what about a meter? That’s a lot of inundation). And 2) how much has subsidence permanently decreased the carrying capacity of aquifers?

It could be a thing where only 50% of what is extracted can be returned. Either theoretically or safely (eg, earthquakes).

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Re:How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting Groundwater by ajb on Monday March 18, 2024 @06:05AM (#39742048)
Makes sense, thanks.
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Re:How a Solar Revolution in Farming Is Depleting Groundwater by bongodongobob on Sunday March 17, 2024 @11:02PM (#39740185)
Permeability, amount of precipitation, land usage, evaporation, avg temperature, temperature variation, soil composition, erosion, wells, flood plain, wetland, etc.
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