[Cont.]
It's one thing to argue we should think about making dams more efficiently.
Maybe all we need is a good idea and to use our brains more efficiently.

Elon Musk has created a company and yearly competition around boring tunnels.
http://www.boringcompany.com/

This could in effect be the component that allows us to move excess water from one dam to another.

Someone should give a man like Elon Musk with the means to do things a hot tip.

He should also create 'That Dam Company', as a sister to 'The Boring Company', and have a yearly competition for both.

Have big prizes for academics and others that take part, with simple rules
- 'whoever can create the most power generation from 10,000 litres of water'
(No restrictions on tank shape or dimensions, entrants are free to decide this themselves)

A 10,000 litre tank isn't that big or expensive, so thousands of creative university minds could work on these ideas, for the generous prizes and having their own name, team and university gaining recognition.

The driest inhabited continent on the planet cannot afford to waste water the way we do, with billions of litres of effluent pumped wastefully out to sea every year!

This water could instead be pumped inland, but for horrendous energy costs. To support new agriculture and new manmade wetlands that could also double as permanent firebreaks. As well as create new aquifers that store water purified by the wetlands, in a win, win all round.

Only nuclear energy as MSR nuclear waste burning technology would be cheap enough to make this suggestion economically viable. And as long as the asinine "green" naysayers dominate the discussion. Nothing of real import will change for us or our depleted and ravaged environment.

Green lock it and leave it has only ever led to the worst and most damaging forest fires this nation has seen, in living history! Time these mad hatter ecofascists and their economy and environment killing policies were no longer listened to!
Alan B.

"The driest inhabited continent on the planet cannot afford to waste water the way we do, with billions of litres of effluent pumped wastefully out to sea every year!"

- Not to mention the impact that effluent has on seagrasses / marine ecosystems and fish habitats / food production.

"This water could instead be pumped inland, but for horrendous energy costs."

Not if we can figure out a way to pump it for free, and generate excess electricity off of the water flow, Alan B.

If this guy (shown earlier) can figure it out how to do it, surely the best and brightest can figure something out too?

Free Energy Water Pump without Electricity.
http://youtu.be/dV9B_yWgYEs

Lesson number one.....
There is no such thing as a free lunch.

A.C. yes one can lift water with just gravity, but only for a couple of feet. A metre high weir can use a from bank-to-bank water wheel to generate enough electrical power to power forty homes 24/7.

But a MSR thorium that fits inside a shipping container can power ten times as many and anywhere where there's water or not. Moreover, could power many new space-age deionization dialysis desalination plant that make broadscale irrigated agriculture economically viable.

While the eastern halve floods and floods, our deserts rarely ever do. But nonetheless would support massive agribusiness desal irrigation projects that could grow grain, tree crops and all manner of farmed food.

Which in turn would lead to new towns and rail transport in our desert inland. And hardly a bad thing in a sparsely inhabited inland landscape.
Alan B.

Hey Alan B.
I've seen that there's a number of similar videos on youtube like the energy free water pump one I shared, but I haven't really looked at them.

Maybe what we really need is more science competitions.
You know if you put 100k annual prize
(or even more say a million dollars for each competition shared between the top 50 entrants),
- You'd have engineers young and old coming out of the woodwork everywhere.

Just like the annual 'boring' competition and an annual 'dam power generation' competition idea
- You could also have a competition to move water a certain distance at the least energy cost.

The academic youth of today might be driven towards far more productive and beneficial subjects rather than 'diploma in gender studies'.

Promoting creative innovation is just as important as guilt tripping society to recycle and use less.

MSR Thorium is undoubtedly a great idea, but how much does it cost to create a test plant and prove that it works and iron out the kinks?
- In any case there should be some kind of a plan to make it happen.

If something might seem a little hard to do,
- Then maybe all we need is a better plan.

I'd love to see what all these young minds coupled with todays modern computer technology and component manufacture with 3D printers could come up with.