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Growing food with locally desalnated sea water

Lord of Planar said:
That works too in a desert environment.

However, you are enclosing a very large area vs. a relatively small return.
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Yea, I know it takes a lot of area, that is the real down side.
 
longview said:
Yea, I know it takes a lot of area, that is the real down side.
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I don't know how practical, or how much it would impact the climate in the region, but I think we should simply turn Death Valley into a salt water lake. Pipe seawater to it freeflowing, and let it stabilize to sea level. It would create at least some extra precipitation from all that evaporation.
 
Lord of Planar said:
I don't know how practical, or how much it would impact the climate in the region, but I think we should simply turn Death Valley into a salt water lake. Pipe seawater to it freeflowing, and let it stabilize to sea level. It would create at least some extra precipitation from all that evaporation.
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I do not think the environmentalist would allow it.
It could also alter weather patterns, in ways that may be unpredictable and undesirable.
 
Lord of Planar said:
I don't know how practical, or how much it would impact the climate in the region, but I think we should simply turn Death Valley into a salt water lake. Pipe seawater to it freeflowing, and let it stabilize to sea level. It would create at least some extra precipitation from all that evaporation.
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That was what happened with the Salton Sea.
 
SMTA said:
Wrong - it would be $34,000,000 in annual gross revenue - not net income.

Revenue - expenses = income.
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With a $200,000,000 initial investment, coupled with operating costs, I don't see how the ROI could be less than 20 years. The headline "Using only sun and seawater..." conveniently leaves out the cost of fertilizer (plants don't grow without food) and operating cost of the solar array and the greenhouses. I'm a big fan of hydroponics (I buy most of my tomatoes, lettuce, cukes and peppers from a local hydroponic farmer), but to push this as being some kind of great financial miracle food growing "machine" simply doesn't pass the "sniff test".
 
faithful_servant said:
With a $200,000,000 initial investment, coupled with operating costs, I don't see how the ROI could be less than 20 years. The headline "Using only sun and seawater..." conveniently leaves out the cost of fertilizer (plants don't grow without food) and operating cost of the solar array and the greenhouses. I'm a big fan of hydroponics (I buy most of my tomatoes, lettuce, cukes and peppers from a local hydroponic farmer), but to push this as being some kind of great financial miracle food growing "machine" simply doesn't pass the "sniff test".
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Excellent insight. Very impressive, but simplely stated.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
You might want to read up on the subject of war on microbes, as clearly you have no clue what is going on.
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You may wish to actually post some information to avoid looking like you are just spouting drivel.
 
faithful_servant said:
With a $200,000,000 initial investment, coupled with operating costs, I don't see how the ROI could be less than 20 years. The headline "Using only sun and seawater..." conveniently leaves out the cost of fertilizer (plants don't grow without food) and operating cost of the solar array and the greenhouses. I'm a big fan of hydroponics (I buy most of my tomatoes, lettuce, cukes and peppers from a local hydroponic farmer), but to push this as being some kind of great financial miracle food growing "machine" simply doesn't pass the "sniff test".
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Desert land is very often very high in nutrients. The land has not had lots of plants sucking out the good stuff before. But yes they would have to be aware of the need for additional inputs.
 
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