S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
like I said, post apocalypse.
Global warming
- Thread starter jsasker007
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They may not prevent flooding, but in many instances, they can regulate where the flooding occurs. For example, I live on a 30,000 acre lake. Downstream in the river valley - think miles wide flat river valley - hundreds of thousand of people live and there are hundreds of thousands of acres of ag land - row crop and cattle. The lake I live on stores 172,000 acre feet at normal pool. At top of flood pool, it stores 1,854,900 acre feet - or roughly 1,680,000 acre feet above normal pool. That is 1,680,000 acres of land flooded one foot deep that can be prevented or regulated going down stream where all the people and farmland is. Of course, that means that water has to be held upstream. The land upstream is owned by the corps, the national refuge system, and private landowners who have land with a flowage easement. That 1,680,000 acre feet is stored on about 130,000 acres of land/water where no permanent structures are allowed. It is a fish and wildlife paradise. You have to understand most of the south is not the land of 10,000 lakes. My own home state of Arkansas would probably have five or six natural lakes larger than 500 acres in the entire state if it wasnt for manmade lakes. Or fishing would be largely confined to catfish, carp, gar, and buffalo if it wasnt for backwater behind the dams. We would have no trout if it wasnt for dams - as it is, we have some of the best trout fishing east of the Rockies. Bass, crappie, and bream thrive in the manmade lakes. Millions of hours or recreation along with millions of dollars are spent by people visiting these lakes. Waterfowl are hunted on the lakes. All the manmade lakes also supply drinking water to residents of the state and industrial water. In addition, most supply hydropower. Yes, a manmade lake may destroy a smallmouth fishery on fifteen miles of fifty ft wide river that was on private land - but create 15,000 acres of public recreation and fifteen miles of trout stream below the dam. Manmade reservoirs are a godsend in the south.
jsasker007
5 year old buck +
Take out the hoover first.
How do they make up 4.2 billion kilowatts of power each year?
4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
Shut the power off to California?
jsasker007
5 year old buck +
It was sarcasm--my bad
jsasker007
5 year old buck +
Have any of our government GODS mentioned possibly using green along with fuels? Keep everything available while using green where it actually makes sense? Forcing all citizens to rely on any single source is a ticking time bomb. Texas should open some eyes--should.
4wanderingeyes
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Green energy should only be used where it is cost effective to use. For instance, in MN, the Governor has this obsession with being 100% green by 2032, or something like that. Mn is mostly focusing on solar. Please tell me how a solar panel, that is covered in snow, and cant even produce enough power to tilt and follow the sun under its own energy, is going to power a cold climate like MN? But MN wants to be California, so they are trying their hardest to match with them. If solar was so effective, why isnt the power companies putting them up? Why is it always independent? It is for the tax brakes. If it was cost effective, the power companies would be putting them up themselves, rather then involving a middle man.
bwoods11
5 year old buck +
How does he figure combines, tractors, grain bins, for example will operate?
If we decide to plant a few hundred billion trees trees, the tube industry might take off like a rocket. Grafting might pay more than brain surgery.
4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
Apparently fairy dust.
Bill Loser
5 year old buck +
If its taking us down ,im going to start hunting the neighbors property. He has better habitat!
chummer
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See, in that case it works in reverse. Global warming will lead to an ice age for you.
4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
They don’t calculate MN and Wi in the global warming thing, I mean pandemic, I mean...
roymunson
5 year old buck +
I'm glad to see you have your priorities straight.
I may go wild and turn my treestand on the line to be FACING the neighbor's property YOLO
Bill Loser
5 year old buck +
Lol!
What do we have left?11 years now?
No more trees planted by this guy. From now on only annuals going in the ground. Tons of corn!!
