UAE mulls ‘man-made mountain’ in bid to improve rainfall
UAE mulls ‘man-made mountain’ in bid to improve rainfall
1 May 2016 By Yasmin Al Heialy Read More: http://www.arabianbusiness.com/exclu...ll-630079.html Quote:
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Even if it was feasible, it shouldn't be allowed.
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I guess this would only work by an ocean. Especially since the desert states already have mountains.
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It's not possible to drag the entire country to a more temperate location?
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see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appala...ate_rainforest To the bigger point, mountains, where there were none before, can have far reaching climate impacts elsewhere. Presumably they're modeling all that, but these things can backfire. Also wouldn't you need a whole range of mountains? Otherwise the air just goes around it. There's other ways https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savo...e?language=en# |
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We shouldn't make mountains out of mole hills.
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Rich Arab oil sheiks: We don't want to wait a few hundred million years for the Earth to make our mountains for us! We want them now!
Technical note: The Persian Gulf in particular is what's called a foreland basin, a type of depositional environment related to nearby mountain-building. Over time, the sediments in the foreland build up into a high plateau, which in turn dessicates into mountain ranges as the primary orogeny's relief weathers away. In other words, in ~200 million years, the Persian Gulf will look something like what the Allegheny Plateau, from the Catskills into West Virginia, look like today. |
Remember this (faux?) proposal for Tempelhof Airport, in Berlin?
https://relationalthought.files.word...009.jpg?w=1065 more on the flight of fantasy here: http://www.the-berg.de/ and here http://scribol.com/art-and-design/ar...cial-mountain/ |
We drove up into the rainforest on the west side of Maui, Hawaii. That mountain is 4000ft.
How are they planning to construct this mountain? Drill down till they hit magma and trigger a volcano? |
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Umm, how would a single mountain be enough to make a significant difference? Don't you need an entire mountain range?
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jesus the lengths people will go to avoid building desalination plants never ceases to astound me
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(And it's also somewhat irrelevant if the lost rainfall would be in the open desert, because it would just be scattered onto sand and then re-evaporate.) What you need is to compare the costs (and energy usage) of desalination to the cost and energy of this curtain contraption. I doubt it would be a mountain; it would just be a mega frame with lots of fabric. Maybe even with solar panels. Swaths of the land underneath could be a giant greenhouse or otherwise put to use as well. |
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