A few random thoughts from me, just the same friendly chat you have offered. :)
A sad day for the USA was parking the last space shuttle; we have ended our exploration, our drive, our reaching out. We are no longer a leader in the world. It"s a big deal, many don"t see it that way, but it signals the end of the USA as a world power. We just don"t care any more.
Reaching, searching, exploring - that makes us all unite and achive something. Now we are nothing.
There is already a lot of water here, we"ve found it already. If people want water, build another dam or aquaduct or move to where the water is - no big deal. Old technology. Know how to do it, just takes money to build, energy to run - lots of both.
No one wants to import water to the world from space. They want to search for ways of supporting life - us or aliens - on other planets. Possible or not? The money & energy used spent on all of the space program over the last 100 years is very, very tiny compared to what it would take to pump water from Carolina to California for just a year....
We could scrub out all our gas/fuel/chemical pipelines, retrofit them, and be pumping water through them pretty cheaply. We can certainly do that. Easy. We would have a drop in a bucket. No one would notice the little dribble of water that resulted.
We already pump 410,000 million gallons per day of water, so we already are doing what you want. Nothing new, you juust need a big enough pump. We likely spend more in one day on pumping water than we spent in a whole year on the space program.
Very sad when we gave up on the space program. We have lost our way. We are happy to just sit on our rears and look for nothing, reach for nothing. Classmate of mine said we lived through the good years as a country, we are now in decline, the future is just winding down.
I think, with messages such as yours, I agree with him. We are headed down the wrong path, a path of going nowhere.
That doesn"t mean you have a poor goal - better distrubution of water, ng, fuel, electricity, and so forth is good. We should be doing those things.
Digging a ditch across contenental divides and 100"s of watersheds is a rather _large_ task. :)
Pumping water up several mile long hills for half the time for thousands of miles is expensive. A pipe and pump big enough to matter is _very_ expensive.
But we know how to do it, no big deal.
What is a big deal is to continue reaching, to continue exploring, to try to find new things.
Very sad when the last shuttle was mothballed, and we have no replacement, no future explorations of anything.
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