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VK6BE > FUEL 14.12.11 02:39l 29 Lines 1583 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: PS End of Growth
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To : FUEL@WW
No need for desalination plants in the "dry" centre, Ian. The desalination
plants will be around the large city centres such as Perth, and the other
capitals which have well over half the population of Australia and limited
water resources. Perth has a plant already and planning another. There is
already irrigation in the north in Queensland and Western Australia in
the Ord scheme. North Queensland has plenty of water, too much frequently,
and so there is agriculture there including sugar and cotton further
south.. No shortage of rain. In Western Australia's north there is the Ord
irrigation scheme which has not been fully developed so far and for some
years there has been talk of piping the water from the northern river
system which is monsoonal with heavy summer rain to the southern capitals
of Perth and Adelaide. So far it has only been talk, but there is no
shortage of water in the north. In Queensland and NSW there have been
floods, which happens fairly regularly.
Yes, the Centre is dry but few people live there anyway, just a few small
centres such as Alice Springs.
Cheers,
Bob VK6BE.
>Population icreases causing an increase in agriculture leading to a fall
in mortality and a further rise in agriculture but, given that a country
like Australia could build solar powered desalination plants making it
possible to irrigate the dry centre and increase the food supply we would
still reach a point when we would run out of land. Hydroponics would then
become a possible solution but not in the long term.
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