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On 31/08/2024 11:37 am, Rod Speed wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 10:17:30 +1000, Trevor Wilson 
> <trevor@rageaudio.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> On 30/08/2024 8:04 pm, Intelligent Party wrote:
>>> On 8/22/2024 11:58 AM, Intelligent Party wrote:
>>>> On 8/22/2024 11:45 AM, Intelligent Party wrote:
>>>>> Raise Lake Shasta 200 Feet and thereby add 10 million acre feet of 
>>>>> water.
>>>>>
>>>>> Put in the Ah Pah Dam and thereby add 15 million acre feet of 
>>>>> water.  On
>>>>> the Klamath River and form a scenic lake.
>>>>>
>>>>> Put in the Dos Rios Reservoir and thereby add 7 million acre feet of
>>>>> water.  On the Eel River
>>>>>
>>>>> Do these projects and then there will be enough water for the 
>>>>> Peripheral
>>>>> Canal, and a fledgling UC Fresno.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> These would be Federal Water Programs, and there is runoff for the
>>>>> State.  These are huge projects like the Hoover Dam, yet desperately
>>>>> needed if we are to have an Empire of 40 million people in 
>>>>> California as
>>>>> we have.
>>>>>
>>>>> The farmers are 80% of the water, and are Federal water.
>>>>> The homes are 20% of the water, and are State water.
>>>>> There is runoff from Federal to State.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> For comparison purposes, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the nation's two
>>>>> largest reservoirs are 25 million Acre Feet of water each.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here is pertinent intelligence accumulated so far, on, ca.water:
>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ca.water/y5tkrEW4Gkk
>>>    The Hoover Dam cost $49 million to build in 1930, equal to $860 
>>> million today.  Per Quora, we think it would cost much more today, 
>>> closer to $10 billion.
>>> https://www.quora.com/How-much-would-it-cost-to-build-the-Hoover-Dam-from-scratch-in-todays-dollars-and-under-todays-construction-rules
>>>  If it cost $10 Billion
>>>  The San Diego County Carlsbad Desalinization plant cost about $1 
>>> billion to build
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsbad_Desalination_Plant
>>>  It produces 50 million gallons of fresh water per day or 18.25 
>>> billion per year.
>>>  If a dam allowing storage of 10 million acre feet, such as the 
>>> Hoover Dam cost $10 billion to build, we calculate that 1 acre foot 
>>> of water is 325,851 gallons, and 10 million acre feet of water 
>>> 3,258,509,400,000, 3.2 Trillion gallons of stored water.
>>>  We also calculate that 10 such desalinization plants as the one in 
>>> San Diego County, costing $10 billion total, would produce 18.25 
>>> billion x 10, 182.5 billion gallons of fresh water per year.  Or 
>>> 500,000,000 gallons x 365 days, also 182,500,000,000 gallons yearly.
>>>  We thus conclude, that because 3.2 trillion gallons is 17.85 times 
>>> 182.5 billion gallons, dams still make more sense that desalinization 
>>> plants.
>>>   If you were storing only 1 million acre feet, it would still be 
>>> 1.785 time more water to have damns.
>>>  Maybe we can build desalinization plants more efficiently in the 
>>> future?   Maybe there are economies of scale?
>>>  If you stored 10 million acre feet, and the dam only cost $1 billion 
>>> it would be 178.5 times more water.  However, we should not build 
>>> damns that fail, and it should be a Federal project.
>>>   If there is anything wrong with this analysis, please correct it.
>>
>> **What the fuck are "gallons", "acres" and "feet"?
>>
>> NO ONE on this planet uses those measurements, except an insignificant 
>> 5% of the planet's population. Please use accepted international 
>> measurements and re-post so everyone can understand.
> 
> What a terminal fuckwit you have always been.

**Just a reminder moron: I am not the one trying to use measurements 
that no one on the planet uses, except Americans. Australia, like the 
rest of the planet, uses Metric measurements.

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