I see
many movies and other stories about an inevitable, impending water shortage on
Earth, a stark, arid planet populated by Humans on never-ending quests for
fresh H2O, maybe its because some folks just need more things to be insecure
about.
I thought about a Condensation Console, like the cowling for a
26 inch television, converted to allow the sun to the panes of glass, brass,
whatever we find that's most suitable for creating clean water...
If we want to put snow back on the mountains, we have to Re-green
the deserts, declare all raindrops and spring runoff as precious, ease regular
lowland flooding by tapping downhill flow at higher altitudes...
if the front of the console is arrayed with magnifying lenses
corresponding to the number of panes inside...
a hole drilled into the Earth, fitted with a pipe-frame that
supports its own meshing, to allow cool air to rise into the console, (may have
to use a solar-powered cooling plant in some areas, no problem), the pipe holds
a light fan, like out of a computer's...
There are shutters on the front of the console that close away
from the Sun, creating a completely darkened interior...
there is a bio-degradable water tank in the ground fed by many
units...
the hard-packed deserts will be easy and ought to be the place
to start...
Imagine each acre bordered by trees, and quartered by hedges,
Imagine millions of square miles of the Earth protected from the
Sun by camouflage netting,
Imagine communities on the west coast competing to save and ship
the most rain water in the winter and spring, utilizing existing pipelines
meant for something else,
the temperature inside the consoles arrayed all over the
south-west U. S. hits a certain level, the shutters close away from the
Sun, and the fan in the ground-pipe switches on, blowing cooler air up
into the console, powerful air blown hard and circulating back around into the
unit...
We can harness new water at 70 degrees F;
Maybe the unit's interior is chrome, maybe the interior stays
super hot all day and just continues to process H2O;
Kevin, have ADHD and other wiring issues that mess with me and
are affected by my diet, sleep, an environment, and I can not keep days in a
row, or recall recent events immediately, plus ground hog Day Syndrome makes
yesterday about 10 days ago.
Imagine descending snow-lines on the
Rockies and other ranges;
Imagine Lakes Mead and Chad, and the Aral and Salton Seas, replenished.
Imagine the world before, according to some history's about our
time on Earth, our earliest ancestors left the oceans and found better food in
great abundance all around the planet, and saturated the grassy lowlands
that are today's deserts, leading to devastation of forests by empires even
now.
We'll likely end up (s)melting the great sand dunes of the
Sahara and other places where the desert is not hard-packed, done right we
might produce a fireproof, lightweight lumber that we use in space;
enough for now, terry mm
