Irrigating Deserts

Discussion in 'Science and Nature' started by Deleted member 839659, Jun 22, 2015.

  1. Would it be possible to irrigate deserts by leading ocean water through tunnels to a depth where it vaporizes and then allow steam to flow up either a few meters underground or right above ground (which ever gives best results)?
     
  2. Irrigate for what purpose? Farming?
     
  3. Yes
     
  4. I like your array of ideas, keep em comin you nutjob :)
     
  5. swimming.
     
  6. I seen no point in that. The future of farming will be indoors using aeroponic towers.


    Hell if you convert a shipping container into an aeroponic farm you can grow more food in it than you can on 1 acre of land.

     
  7. we've been irrigating deserts for thousands of years.

    But digging giant tunnels is hard work and expensive too

    -yuri
     
  8. If God wanted there to be water in the desert, He wouldn't have made em so stinkin dry. [​IMG]
     
  9. thats what plastic water bottles are for.
     
  10. Deserts already have a vast network of aquifers. In southern california, vast stretches of the coachella valley are covered in several miles of farms. In mecca hills, there is a large vineyard..
     
  11. deserts are no good, imagine all the creatures tht would be in existence if it wasnt for those sandboxes


    israel did a good job in turning deserts green - what did they do?

     
  12. We already irrigate deserts. Egypt is currently
    wringing every last ounce of water from their
    deep aquifers to farm veggies in the desert
    so the Brits can have Taters in the winter.


    Your idea seems just a little too complicated
    to actually work, plus what would we do
    with all the salt that would come with ocean
    water? It would contaminate all the fresh water
    in the aquifers that people depend on for
    drinking water.

     
  13. I was thinking the same thing about all that salt left behind ...
     
  14. would it, theoretically, be feasible to use steam to grow forests and jungles in all the world's deserts
     
  15. you mean artificial rain?

    We already have that..its called storm seeding or weather modification.

    Actually creating enough steam to.cause rain would require HUGE ammounts of energy.

    Storm seeding works by spraying chemicals into the sky. These chemicals cause storm clouds to form by attracting wwater essentially.

    -yuri
     

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