Landscape Restoration at Death Valley, California, USA: Macro-Imagineering Industrial “Pleistocene” Landscape
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This suggested evaluation is a forecasted future [1] industrial option for transporting rejected desalination factory brine to Death Valley, State of California, USA. The purpose of this proposal, which would form an anthropogenically enlarged Salton Sea, is to provide long-term storage of precipitated brine salts that in turn would foster a flat solar-reflective landscape. This macro-imagineering proposal has additional beneficiation when combined with additional industrial utilization and downwind climate regime mitigation. The goal or purpose of this macro project is established, new desalination technologies that produce 1 m3 of brine for every 10 m3 of freshwater derived from developing photovoltaic and/or geothermal technologies. A previously well-postulated floating desalination scheme for the spatially enlarged Salton Sea, could produce a maximum of ~44 km3/year of rejected brine that can, in turn, be emplaced in California’s unsettled hinterland [2]. This salty wastewater disposal proposal is offered as an economically feasible 21st Century co-dependent hydraulic-electricity grid Macro-Imagineering project.
Keywords: State of California, Death Valley, Desalination, Macro-projects, Brine disposal, Electricity grid, Aralkum.
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A sugestão apresentada, prevista para o futuro [1], é uma opção industrial de transporte de salmoura rejeitada, proveniente de usina de dessalinização, para o Vale da Morte, Estado da Califórnia, EUA. O objetivo desta proposta, a qual formaria um Mar de Salton antropogenicamente ampliado, é fornecer armazenamento de longo prazo de sais de salmoura precipitados que, por sua vez, promoveriam uma paisagem plana refletiva ao sol. Trata-se de uma proposta de macroimaginação com benefícios adicionais quando combinada a processos industrias e mitigação do regime climático a favor do vento. Este macroprojeto propõe o emprego de novas técnicas de dessalinização — que produzem 1 m3 de salmoura para cada 10 m3 de água doce — associadas à aplicação de tecnologias fotovoltaicas e/ou geotérmicas. Um esquema de dessalinização flutuante previamente bem ajustado para o Mar de Salton ampliado poderia produzir um máximo de ~44 km3/ano de salmoura rejeitada que seria, por sua vez, colocada no interior instável da Califórnia [2], constituindo assim um sistema de disposição de águas residuais salgadas economicamente viável no Século XXI.
Palavras-chave: Estado da Califórnia, Vale da Morte, Dessalinização, Macroprojetos, Eliminação de salmoura, Rede elétrica, Aralkum.
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Direitos autorais 2022 Richard Brook Cathcart, Charles W. Finkl, Nilo Serpa
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