The last things we need are more clean water reserves sucked dry by Intel rather than it focusing on guaranteeing its own supplies through other means, or used as excuses for Southern California not to continue its (admittedly in some counties admirable) efforts to get water resource management under control in concert with other states in the watersheds.
Resource curse.
We irrigate millions of acres with the Columbia, and it’s still the largest river to hit the Pacific once it gets there. Every city gets their drinking water from their own personal watershed. No one needs to bother sucking water up from far below ground.
Additionally, there are a lot of farmers with ground water rights (ie wells) and not a ton with surface water rights (ie rivers).
(Edit: nanoimprint lithography may have significantly lower resource requirements than traditional lithography? https://arstechnica.com/reviews/2024/01/canon-plans-to-disru... : "will be “one digit” cheaper and use up to 90 percent less power" )
Datacenters too;
"Next-generation datacenters consume zero water for cooling" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376406
Most datacenters have no way to return their boiled, sterilized water for water treatment, and so they don't give or sell datacenter waste water back, it takes heat with it when it is evaporated.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42454547#42460317 :
> FWIU, datacenters are unable to sell their waste heat, boiled sterilized steam and water, unused diesel, and potentially excess energy storage.
"Ask HN: How to reuse waste heat and water from AI datacenters?" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820952
How does it affect tectonics on the western coast of the US?
Cascade Range > Geology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Range#Geology
https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geophysics/hikurangi-wate... :
> Revealed by 3D seismic imaging, the newly-discovered [Hikirangi] water reservoir lies 3.2 km (2 miles) under the ocean floor off the coast of New Zealand, where it may be dampening a major earthquake fault that faces the country’s North Island. The fault is known for producing slow-motion earthquakes, called slow slip events. These can release pent-up tectonic pressure harmlessly over days and weeks
The "Slow earthquake" wikipedia article mentions the northern Cascades as a research area of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_earthquake
They say water has a fingerprint; a hydrochemical and/or a geochemical footprint?
Is the water in the reservoir subducted from the surface or is it oozing out of the Earth?
"Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle" (2014) https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1253358 :
> Summary: [...] Schmandt et al. combined seismological observations beneath North America with geodynamical modeling and high-pressure and -temperature melting experiments. They conclude that the mantle transition zone — 410 to 660 km below Earth's surface — acts as a large reservoir of water.
How many Lake Meads is that equivalent to, for reference?
Because I've got eleven fingers worth of lakes that say different.
Lake Mead is the primary water display to a number of states. It's also pretty low (and getting lower).
By comparing this resource to Lake Mead, it's making it relevant as a possible source of water. (Americans never found a resource they didnt want to exploit).
Of course it's not as simple as that. Water in aquifers is different to water in lakes. And it's not clear if the aquifer water could be directed into the Colorado River. Or how easily it can be extracted from the rock. Or how quickly it will replenish.
But the point is made. This is a lot of water that might be useful at scale.
I'm lost without sensible units.
19, but only if you start with a ground floor
With ground floor starting at 0 like in North America or at 1 as they have it in Europe?
Bonus: How do you call an elevator in Japan?
You press the button.I searched for that image. It gives me a good idea of the size.
+1 for gratuitous consumption!
> There is a global resource shortage.
> Authoritarian state on the other side of the planet controls it.
> US is finished.
> American farmer in the middle of nowhere US discovers the largest supply of said resource known to mankind.
> Repeat.
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