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<\/a> I take you back to the world-wide ‘Great Horse Manure Crisis in 1894’<\/strong>.\u00a0 Yes, the proliferation of horse manure and the inability to remove it from the streets was considered the greatest obstacle to urban development at the turn of the century.\u00a0 An article in the London Times stated,<\/p>\n\u201cIn 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Having the luxury of hindsight, we now know that technology<\/strong>, in the form of the proliferation of the automobile, solved this problem.<\/p>\n Why, you ask, I am writing about horseshit?<\/p>\n It seems to me that we have a similar problem today.\u00a0 Not with horseshit, but with water. Particularly in California where we are experiencing severe drought conditions and devastating fires.\u00a0 It occurred to me, on my flight to Hawaii last month, that there is a hell of a lot of water in the Pacific Ocean<\/strong>, and if my geography serves me, California has over 800 miles of coastline<\/strong> that abuts to this salty water supply.\u00a0 I know I\u2019m not breaking news here and there have been attempts at \u2018desalination\u2019, but for my money, and I pay a healthy amount of taxes in this state next to the Pacific, we\u2019re literally doing nothing serious to prevent the horseshit from piling up.<\/p>\n Several of today\u2019s solutions seem to be akin to how people were looking at the horseshit problem in 1894.\u00a0 They are:<\/p>\n Desalination process<\/p><\/div>\n Desalination<\/strong> \u2013 costly, increases fossil fuel dependence, increases greenhouse gas emissions, exacerbates climate change, threatens marine life, blah, blah, blah.\u00a0 Change the process!<\/p>\n Pipelines<\/strong> – We get oil to California from as far away as Saudi Arabia<\/strong> and Africa <\/strong>(not by pipelines, but by ship – I’m simply making the point that if we really want something we’ll go anywhere in the world to get it);\u00a0today we import most of our oil from Canada<\/strong> and over 90% of that oil comes via a pipeline.\u00a0 So why isn\u2019t there a \u2018pipeline\u2019 sending some of the excess water we get in Washington and Oregon, to California?\u00a0 The simple answer is that today, water does not have the same economic panache as oil.\u00a0 Oil keeps most of our vehicles and industries moving, water only keep us moving.<\/p>\n Seed the clouds<\/strong> \u2013 expensive, requires the use of potentially harmful chemicals, could create other weather problems, depends on atmospheric conditions, unknown long-term effect.\u00a0 Stop wasting your time!<\/p>\n Making water<\/strong> \u2013 it\u2019s just two elements, right? Hydrogen and oxygen<\/strong>, which are both plentiful in our atmosphere.\u00a0 So why not just \u2018make water\u2019?\u00a0 \u00a0 Because just mixing hydrogen and oxygen together doesn’t make water \u2013 to join them together you need energy – lots of it.\u00a0 So, if we solve the energy problem have we’ve solved the water problem?<\/p>\n To be sure, this is not just a California problem, it\u2019s worldwide, in fact we already have a horseshitesque quote from another country that is surrounded on three sides by water:<\/p>\n \u201cThere will be no water by 2040 if we keep doing what we\u2019re doing today\u201d <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Professor Benjamin Sovacool, Aarhus University, Denmark\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n So you\u2019re telling me that we can put people on the moon, create driverless cars, get stuff we ordered from Amazon delivered the next day, but we can\u2019t find a way to effectively use a resource that covers two-thirds of our earth?!!!<\/p>\n Horseshit!!!<\/p>\n And speaking of horseshit, if we only used a small percentage of the money our government wastes on really stupid stuff (possibly my next blog rant) to solve our \u2018water problem\u2019, we\u2019d have it fixed by Christmas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Bob Sparrow I take you back to the world-wide ‘Great Horse Manure Crisis in 1894’.\u00a0 Yes, the proliferation of horse manure and the inability to remove it from the streets was considered the greatest obstacle to urban development at … read more![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/desalination.jpg\")
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