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This may sound crazy on paper, but why not build pipelines from Western NY where there's always feet of snow and sell the water to dry states like Nevada, Arizona, and Texas? It'd be a great tax boon for NYS and is a purely clean natural resource.
This may sound crazy on paper, but why not build pipelines from Western NY where there's always feet of snow and sell the water to dry states like Nevada, Arizona, and Texas? It'd be a great tax boon for NYS and is a purely clean natural resource.
It'd be cheaper to just do desalination out there than building and maintaining the kind of infrastructure needed for that.
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Well if it worked and they removed all of my snow IMMEDIATELY, I could be for something like this... I probably could fill the wells of a few dry towns in Texas. Currently when it melts it goes through a pipe in my driveway,down a stream, to a bigger pipe, so people can wash their sidewalks and flush their toilets in NYC.
The practical problem is that water runs down hill. Most of the snow belt is under 2,000 ft in elevation. The states that need water are on the other side of a 6,000 ft. plateau at the western edge of the high plains. Ever heard of the continental divide?
The cost and energy needs to pump any significant amount of water over that mile-high hill that divides our country's main watersheds would be enormous.
It would be more practical to flow snowmelt down from western Canada to the parched western U.S. than from NY.
The practical problem is that water runs down hill. Most of the snow belt is under 2,000 ft in elevation. The states that need water are on the other side of a 6,000 ft. plateau at the western edge of the high plains. Ever heard of the continental divide?
The cost and energy needs to pump any significant amount of water over that mile-high hill that divides our country's main watersheds would be enormous.
It would be more practical to flow snowmelt down from western Canada to the parched western U.S. than from NY.
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Point taken.
But I don't think you should give up entirely, with all the gas pipes they will be putting in, maybe just lay a water pipe right next to it. Two birds one stone.
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