Reply #24: Places like California don't need natural gas for that. [View All]

[hunter]

There's lots of water we can move around and much of the infrastructure already exists.

Beyond this other projects are possible. For example, a link between the Salton Sea and the Gulf of California might be used to balance electric supply and demand throughout much of the Southwest and improve the already artificial ecosystem of that body of water.

One thing we really ought to be working on are the interfaces between natural and artificial water systems. The pumps that suck water out of the Sacramento delta and the various agricultural drains throughout the state are ecological nightmares. I think we could design systems that are politician proof; systems in which it would be physically impossible to overdraft fresh water or irrigate and develop lands to the detriment of environments wastewater drains into.