Meteorological Macro-Imagineering: A Re-plumbed Freshwater Supply System for the USA’s Southwest? (Macro-Imagenharia Meteorológica: Um Sistema de Abastecimento de Água Doce para o Sudoeste dos EUA?)

Richard Brook Cathcart

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The macroproject proposed, encompassing the arid Southwest of the USA and northern Mexico, has the potential to more than pay for itself. If a radical volumetric enlargement were competently completed by correctly educated advocates of Macro-Imagineering, supplemented by geothermal power-plants, it could make benign an over-polluted aquatic “monster” — the present-day stagnant and putrid Salton Sea — through induced importation of diluting Gulf of California saltwater resulting in rapid areal increase of the inanimate “creature”, converting it from its presently degraded smelly status to an amply beneficial condition as an anthropogenic extension of Mexico’s Gulf of California! Formation by Macro-Engineering means of a sustainable human development around and thereon can result in profitable voluminous desalinated seawater exportation from the State ofCaliforniato adjacentArizona,Nevadaand nearbyUtahas well asMexicobordering theUSA’s Southwest. The key infrastructure permitting these developments is a centralized multi-segment photovoltaic-powered desalination factory resting atop named  Introduction floating artificial islands covering most of a deliberately enlarged and robotized Salton Sea. A particular macroproject proposed, the Southwest Water Alliance Project (SWAP), is fashioned somewhat after NEOM, an announced ecopolis, but still structurally unspecified robot megacity, scheduled to be built in northern Saudi Arabia connected by a yet-to-be-constructed fixed sea-strait crossing linking Tabuk, Saudi Arabia to Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula of bordering Egypt.  

Key words: Seawater desalination, floating photovoltaic platforms, arid Southwest USA and Mexico development, Macro-Imagineering, Macro-Engineering.

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O macroprojeto proposto, abrangendo o árido sudoeste dos EUA e norte do México, tem potencial para mais do que pagar por si mesmo. Se um aumento volumétrico radical fosse conduzido por defensores competentes da Macro-Imagineering, suplementado por usinas de energia geotérmica, seria possível tornar benigno um "monstro" aquático extremamente poluído — o atual e estagnado Mar de Salton — por meio de importações induzidas de água salgada diluente do Golfo da Califórnia, resultando em um rápido aumento de área da "criatura" inanimada, resgatando-a de seu estado atual degradado como uma extensão antropogênica do Golfo da Califórnia! Por meio da Macroengenharia é possível conduzir um desenvolvimento humano sustentável e lucrativo capaz de garantir uma expressiva exportação de água do mar dessalinizada do estado da Califórnia para os adjacentes Arizona, Nevada e Utah, além do México na fronteira com o sudoeste dos EUA. A principal infraestrutura que permite esse desenvolvimento é uma fábrica centralizada para dessalinização multissegmento baseada em energia fotovoltaica, formada por ilhas artificiais flutuantes que cobririam a maior parte do Mar de Salton em um sistema ampliado e robotizado. Em particular, um macroprojeto semelhante proposto é o Southwest Water Alliance Project (SWAP) — criado um pouco depois do NEOM —, uma ecópolis anunciada, megacidade robótica estruturalmente ainda não especificada, programada para ser construída no norte da Arábia Saudita, conectada por uma passagem estreita ligando Tabuk, na Arábia Saudita, a Sharm el-Sheikh, na Península do Sinai (fronteira com o Egito).

Palavras-chave: Dessalinização da água do mar, plataformas fotovoltaicas flutuantes, desenvolvimento do sudoeste dos EUA e do México, Macroengenharia.

 


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17648/calibre.v3i3.448

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