One Way to Fight California's Drought: Desalt the Ocean

Re:One Way to Fight California's Drought: Desalt the Ocean by mc32 on Monday August 03, 2015 @04:43PM (#9999646)

Whatever happened to the idea of tugging broken off icebergs as source of freshwater. It could lessen the impact on rising seas, to some extent. Desalting of course would lessen it too. perhaps neither would be enough to counteract the overall melting. But both can address droughts.

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Re:One Way to Fight California's Drought: Desalt the Ocean by j-pb on Monday August 03, 2015 @04:59PM (#9999767)

> It could lessen the impact on rising seas, to some extent

And where do you think that water goes, after it has been put on the fields?

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Re:One Way to Fight California's Drought: Desalt the Ocean by kaybe on Monday August 03, 2015 @05:39PM (#10000062)

Ice bergs are nearly neutral as far as water level goes, since they displace about the volume of water they contain (if melted). If all the sea ice melts, the sea will rise on the order of mm. (I have the calculations around somewhere if you want details.) The problem is the ice currently located on land.

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Re:One Way to Fight California's Drought: Desalt the Ocean by j-pb on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @02:36AM (#10001979)

Even in it has an almost neutral effect, it still doesn't lessen the effect of rising seas.

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