Comment by alphager
The US is a major food exporter with a supply around 125%. Shutting down a few farms in the desert seems worthwhile.
The US is a major food exporter with a supply around 125%. Shutting down a few farms in the desert seems worthwhile.
I think the reasoning here is to have the fabrication being done away from areas where a natural disaster might cause an issue. No earthquakes, no tornadoes, no hurricanes, no heavy winter storms with a ton of snow, etc. If you locate it on an elevated area with good drainage there won't be any problems with desert storms/flooding either.
> Water is only going to get scarcer in the west as climate change goes on.
Predictions are all over the place but the average prediction seems to say that at least half the US gets more water.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-what-climate-models-te...
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth103/sites/www.e-educati...
These are the ones that showed up first.
Drying in the southwest is more likely than in the northwest, probably. The specifics are all over. But the bigger distinctions tend to be north versus south.
Doing anything that uses a lot of water in a desert seems problematic to me. Water is only going to get scarcer in the west as climate change goes on.