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Glaciers In The Sahara.
Date published:First of all, I am just a schmuck on the Internet. I am not an engineer. I do not know what I am doing. If you are and/or have anything to say about my "analsis", you can post an issue or submit a patch on the Codeberg repository of the site. Also available on IRC as "cow_2001" and on the balkanised Activitypub federation as @kakafarm@shitposter.world.
Anyway, a friend of mine asked:
2024-11-25T08:05:22+0000 <anon> cow_2001: why do they not flood the sahara? 2024-11-25T08:05:26+0000 <anon> there's nothing there 2024-11-25T08:05:39+0000 <anon> it could help with reducing the water levels
So the plan is to pump any water added to the current sea levels from melted glaciers into the hypothetical Big Sahara Sea Tub.
Okay.
We go to the Wikipedia and find how much glaciers we have:
Continental glaciers cover nearly 13 million km2 (5 million sq mi) or about 98% of Antarctica's 13.2 # million km2 (5.1 million sq mi), with an average thickness of ice 2,100 m (7,000 ft). Greenland and Patagonia also have huge expanses of continental glaciers.[4] The volume of glaciers, not including the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, has been estimated at 170,000 km3.[5]
So the volume of all glaciers is equal 13 million square kilometre of the surface of the Earth covered by glaciers of an average 2.1 kilometre thickness.
We have the cost of a cubic metre in the USA. It is around 1 to 6 USD per cubic metre.
Also, we do not need the cleanest waters, nothing treated or drinkable, so let us assume it will be a hundred times cheaper, again, for no good reason, so we use 0.01 USD per cubic metre.
We use the GNU Units command to do this EXTREMELY ADVANCED MATHEMATICS:
units --terse --digits 2 '(10 million km^2) * (1 km) * (0.01 unitedstatesdollar / metre^3)' 'unitedstatesdollar'result: 1e+14 That is a lot of Murikan dollars.
units --terse --digits 2 '(10 million km^2) * (1 km) * (0.01 unitedstatesdollar / metre^3)' 'israelnewshekel'result: 3.7e+14 Quite a lot of Shekels indeed.Tag feeds:
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