I was thinking of tsunamis, actually. I figure that it should be possible to design the reactors to mostly or entirely avoid having pressurized sections, which combined with being located in fairly deep water, would greately reduce the range of stresses that they would encounter.discord wrote:absalom: pipeline the cooling water for the nuke plant from the sea should work just as well(or if salt is such a issue, just reuse the river water?), gets the water to the arid area, still uses a nuke plant,
I could be wrong of course, and I do agree that it would make facility upgrades more difficult.
So use another reactor. The hydrogen gets burned inland, so you can always use turbines or whatever to extract some of the useful energy there, which I believe should also cause the moisture to condense faster too. The point of this proposal was basically to transmit water as efficiently as possible to inland drought-prone areas for rehumidification, so diverting some of the power for actual power uses is putting the cart before the horse.discord wrote:and you get to keep the power generated instead of using it all....
Last time I heard, estimates were that there isn't enough accessible platinum on the entire planet to upgrade the current vehicle fleet to fuel cells, so it would need to be hydrogen-fuel internal combustion engines (which can be done, if you improve the lubrication systems: diesel & gasoline actually provide some lubrication, while hydrogen doesn't).discord wrote:well, i suppose you could just crack water for hydrogen fuelcells, and let the cars and such do the watering?
At any rate, I assume that vehicles & power plants would draw from the same pipelines, so 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.