Re: water, again (was murder offsets)
Posted by
Pieter Steenekamp on
Apr 19, 2021; 3:42pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/murder-offsets-tp7601555p7601621.html
I live in a small town Mossel Bay in South Africa with a semi-desert climate. We have a desalination plant that can supply +/- 60% of normal potable water usage. It's not for the rich people only, when the dams supplying water in normal years dry up, everybody, including the desperately poor people get potable water.
If you allow me to go off-topic for a moment. Mossel Bay is in the Western Cape province of South Africa and we have plenty of what we call "swallows" here. It's people from Europe that own second properties and live here in the European winter when it's summer in South Africa. The summer before Covid my wife and I were hiking along the coast and we bump into a "swallow"couple from Switzerland and we started to chat to them. The woman told us she considers this to be the most beautiful place on earth. Afterwards we said wow!, coming from a Swiss, it must mean something.
Ha! Sure. ... it still looks like SteveS called it with the Red Queen's Race. Even if such tech solves more problems than it creates, it'll still be distributed according to the power structures in place (e.g. rich people) when the tech's ready to scale.
On 4/19/21 7:54 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Again technology to the rescue... Nanotechnology for desalinization.
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> Copper? Natural gas? Pffft! Water's the interesting one.
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> https://theconversation.com/interstate-water-wars-are-heating-up-along-with-the-climate-159092
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> And another one:
> https://www.theolympian.com/news/business/article250595449.html
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> On 4/15/21 7:59 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
>> Another good example is water rights across states given watersheds,
>> flood irrigation, etc.
>> <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/05/arizona-water-one-per
>> centers>
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>> So, the question you're asking (how might "storage" in BTC be less preferable to other assets?) isn't really answerable *without* first discussing what that reservoir is *for*, what end does it serve?
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