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by Reziac
Thu Feb 07, 2019 5:41 pm
Forum: General Desert Information
Topic: Board is throwing an error
Replies: 2
Views: 24410

Re: Board is throwing an error

Let's see if I can break it again... I can break anything...

...nope! It's fixed!!
by Reziac
Thu Feb 07, 2019 6:42 am
Forum: General Desert Information
Topic: Board is throwing an error
Replies: 2
Views: 24410

Board is throwing an error

Every time I make a post, instead of getting sent back to the topic, I get this error: [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes/functions_messenger.php on line 506: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/includes...
by Reziac
Thu Feb 07, 2019 6:39 am
Forum: Desert Environmental and Land Uses
Topic: Mining for Water Cadiz Ca
Replies: 1
Views: 47105

Re: Mining for Water Cadiz Ca

Saudi Arabia had the same dream. They tapped their deep water and started growing enough wheat to feed their entire country. Pretty soon they became concerned that the deep aquifer was not being replenished, as is generally the case with deep aquifers, because they date to the Ice Age. They shut dow...
by Reziac
Thu Feb 07, 2019 6:24 am
Forum: Desert Environmental and Land Uses
Topic: Salton Sea is drying up
Replies: 2
Views: 30080

Re: Salton Sea is drying up

Fact is, you can either have the Salton Sea, or you can have the Colorado River, but you can't have both; so long as you want the river, the sea is going to continue drying up, which is to say, reverting to the basin's state prior to 1905, when the [modern] flooding first occurred. And we're a whole...
by Reziac
Fri Nov 10, 2017 6:41 am
Forum: Desert Environmental and Land Uses
Topic: $2-billion hydropower project
Replies: 1
Views: 28932

Re: $2-billion hydropower project

And they plan to get all this water... where? out of the ground? for how long? they plan to prevent evaporation loss... how? (the uncovered Aqueduct is estimated to lose up to 90% of what it carries to evaporation) Sounds to me like a plan to suck up a lot of taxpayer and investment money, then run ...
by Reziac
Fri Jul 11, 2014 11:01 am
Forum: Desert Environmental and Land Uses
Topic: Enviros split on Interior solar plan
Replies: 3
Views: 41138

Re: Enviros split on Interior solar plan

I lived downwind from a solar installation. We'd never had blowing dirt before in my part of the Antelope Valley (westernmost corner of the Mojave Desert), but all of a sudden it was rampant. Same with the other solar installation near town. And these solar generating units were probably the most en...
by Reziac
Fri Jul 11, 2014 10:44 am
Forum: Desert Environmental and Land Uses
Topic: Worsening Drought Impacts Western Rangeland
Replies: 2
Views: 32054

Re: Worsening Drought Impacts Western Rangeland

Seems to me if you go feeding those feral horses during drought years, you're also encouraging their continued overpopulation.
by Reziac
Fri Jul 11, 2014 10:41 am
Forum: Desert Environmental and Land Uses
Topic: More land may be closed - Meeting Notice
Replies: 1
Views: 24715

Re: More land may be closed - Meeting Notice

So how did this come out?

They keep closin' up places, pretty soon all you'll be able to do is look mournfully from the Interstate.