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Pumping water inland expensive

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Big bodies of water don't cause uplift. As I said further up the thread, the Pilbara is arid despite being next to the enormous body of water known as the Indian Ocean!
Aidan,
Any village idiot can tell you that. Try a large body of water amidst heated land.
Posted by individual, Sunday, 23 December 2018 7:41:38 AM
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Yada, yada, yada from all the 'experts' on water. Nothing is going to happen. Amen.
Posted by ttbn, Sunday, 23 December 2018 8:20:23 AM
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I'm sorry Hasbeen, old mate, we appear to be talking at cross purposes.
My take-up was, and is, to expand Oz' productive farm/food-growing capacity, and concurrently reduce population concentration increase/exacerbation along our coastline - not to deprive people of the myriad benefits of coastal living, but, you know, we have quite a few hard-pressed graziers who battle away in semi-arid inland Oz, pushing the proverbial to eke out a sustenance for their families and put some food on the table for Oz, or for export. So, if they can do it, can we not help some others to breast some other (uninhabited) parts of those vast (sweeping) plains, beneath the towering mountain ranges, midst a lack of flooding rains? So they too can eke out a living, raise a family, and not have to put up with all the nitty-picky tom-foolery of the Potts Point wingers?

And how to do this? To tap into the gigs and gigs of runoff-to-the-sea up North, where they can already go for gangbusters growing melons, rice, whatever, and drag some of those bountiful gigs South, kicking and screaming if necessary, to open up and make bountiful use of those gigs in whatever is the best way forward. Of course, I am not forgetting that growth takes sustenance, and the semi-arid is near dead, as far as soil nutrient composition and levels - so, treated poo has to be channeled to where it can be put to good use (instead of contributing to ocean pollution) - and those coastal yokels are full of it anyway, with no where useful (and non-damaging) for it to go.

So, expansive solar-powered greenhouses, and, in due course, re-establishment even of some tillable expanses, or even forests, and the odd alpaca? Indi reckons if you can get evaporation, you may ultimately get rain. (You know, how rain forests work - and how the wiping-out of rain forests in parts like the Amazon is adversely damaging the rain forest climate/ecosystem/biodiversity, wrecking not only the local climate but contributing substantially (and not yet fully appreciated) to this blessed climate-change scenario.
So?
TBContinued.
Posted by Saltpetre, Sunday, 23 December 2018 8:48:52 AM
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(Cont'd):
As for the big dry affecting our farmers, you have to grab back the climate, me old mate. No amount of channeled or pumped or sucked-from-the-atmosphere (manually that is) water, water, water, can meet that demand. Only rain, flooding, spilling, running and raging can do that.

Climate change, where is thy sting? Man, we are living it. And, if the world doesn't wake up and do something about it, seriously and more seriously, we are just going to get more of it. More drought here, more floods there (mostly where they do no good), islanders living in pole houses with sharks dropping by for snacks, and polar bears rummaging in people's dust bins.

We are here, IT is here, and where we go is in the hands of the Wall Street bankers.
Can we take back our heritage, our rights, or is the UN going to remain a worn-out vestigial figment of its rightful purpose and ambition, and the US, Russia, China and the EU going to veto the world into self-destruction.
Arab Spring, a dismal failure, and a shocking mess (thank you GW), so who the hell do you trust to tackle climate, tackle unbridled economic expansionism, crony world domination by the elites and poop-on-the-heads of the masses? I know Trump don't give a proverbial (an he is such a liar), Teresa is attacked on all sides by small-minded hypocrites, Xi is Emperor in waiting (for the final Chinese Revolution - by stealth), and the EU is full of bureaucratic pin-heads full of their own self-importance (we/EU were ruling the world you know, while England was still in the Dark Ages), or SCOMO with balls big as basketballs?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Have a good one, and a Merry Christmas to all.
Posted by Saltpetre, Sunday, 23 December 2018 8:49:01 AM
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Saltpeter sorry you have been told yada yarda yarda, that the thread should shudder to a Holt
Sorry if I got your tag wrong it happens to me a lot
I am finding your posts interesting so do not take the unwanted stuff to heart
we will pump water inland and once started it will grow fast
Posted by Belly, Sunday, 23 December 2018 9:44:03 AM
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we will pump water inland and once started it will grow fast
Belly,
I think it will happen as soon as someone can see money in it & convince those insipids who are holding everything back.
No pumps needed, a gravity-fed Bradfield scheme will guarantee an environmental enhancement this country hasn't seen for several thousand years.
Posted by individual, Sunday, 23 December 2018 1:04:19 PM
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