(Alert!! TURBO POST AHEAD!! (short version: Ways to get more water into our drought stricken San Diego. Rain Trucks, mega magnetics, and, stuff ) Turbo version: Home today-- staying indoors taking it easy… tum is whacky- (NEVER eat an entire plate of Brussel sprouts -no matter HOW good they are. What was i thinking?) Anyway. today Im watching the news and I see a LOT of rain is heading to Phoenix AGAIN. Too much all at once. NOT good. Got me thinking about the drought here in Southern Cal and other places. May I present an idea? Thinking as i often do-- like 3 yr old-- Im sure there are a bazlilion reasons why we cant do these things,, due to $$$$, politics, or sheer logistics and absurd thinking … but onward. Why cant San Diego have a huge fleet of (very big) tractor trailer trucks that can carry very heavy loads, and on them are very large open- top rain barrels, and a Train system too, all specifically for Rain Harvesting. Then three days before we know a massive storm is due to hit places like Phoenix, we send that fleet and train there. The trucks to any and all large open areas /empty parking lots … especially their areas that flood,. The trucks open the tops to their barrels, as does the trains special rail cars. There they sit and wait for the deluge. As soon as the collection units are full of rain, a top enclosure latches closed, and the water is transported to San Diego, For two days Hwy 8 and one of the Amtak lines is used solely for this massive cavalcade of harvested rain water into Imperial Valley. There its siphoned into huge storage tanks for farmlands there.. but some also can be sent further into San Diego for more farms and, used to water all the trees and lawns in our major parks. San Diego needs water .. and Phoenix (and other towns) need to NOT flood every time they have a deluge. IF they need to store extra rain water for themselves too, they should . but all the rain they get is mainly hitting ground that cant soak the rain up fast enough so it floods their streets, causing all sorts of damage and eventually that extra goes down the drain. Perhaps Phoenix would love that help, because it saves them from flooding, so they dont charge us anything to park our massive fleet on their parking lots etc. for their rain. IN return for letting us harvest our rain, there we make sure they get some of that harvested rain as well? RAIN CONTAINERS: Why doesnt every city and town in water -starved Calif have a massive rain barrel collective? Do our Water companies even have rain harvest barrels on their own grounds? Even if just used to water the plants around their own company grounds? (maybe they do? Ill have to ask Helix Water Dist. They are very proactive in the water sitch, so i hope they have a barrel or some such attached to their down spouts) Each homeowner could get a large barrel on their property as well, at a discount price because of the help it would give to save water. many of them have sprights to attach to a hose for your watering. . Each new housing development could have have some sort of Rain Harvesting container automatically part of the home, attached to down spouts. ( I put a bucket out on my tiny porch during rain.. I dont have a yard so instead i use that extra water when cleaning my tub and shower that day) How bout large water catches / semi towers placed in each city/ or suburb of San Diego county? Use the water for watering trees/parks in that area. .even if just one little watering.. it would help. Just trying to think of any type of idea… no matter how crazy it sounds… What about a massive Flume? or Roman style aqueduct? (BUT! not an aqueduct that drains our aquifers (the water underneath us). Instead use it to capture massive rains in areas that get massive rain --then due to new technology and know how (?), they just flume it on over to us in So Cal? HA! . Weve got to do something. Ok last one.. Forget seeding clouds How about figuring out how to magnetize rain clouds--their properties do entail electrical one --once we learn how to polarize that electrical energy and transfer it into a metal -type energy (**i have no idea what im saying) . , then we simply put up a big ole honkin massive Magnet and drag those humongous fat rainy clouds over to San Diego! (politely asking permission of course, from the state those clouds we are taking.. Excuse me, but may we please help ourselves to some of that rain you got there so you dont flood? . The other state replies: SURE! and, Wow. thanks!!) Anyway.. Ill keep thinking.. I sure dont want us to wait till the day when that liquid gold will only be for sale to the 2% of the world who can afford it! . OK .. keep thinking!
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:17:57 +0000
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