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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Pump the water up over the mountain. Put a turbine at the bottom on the other side. According to the law of conservation of energy, you'll generate the exact amount of power to pump the water up, so it wouldn't even cost anything to run.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Why even pump it? Let it evaporate naturally, and it will eventually just rain down on its own.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (7 children)

    We are not completely efficient in energy, we lose a lot in the process. You will take more, and how do you not know that already?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    I know it's an unstable part of the world but I think if you had a strong enough military presence around the pumping and turbine stations you could reduce the energy losses to a negligible amount.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (5 children)

    Energy losses are due to resistance. Military can't do shit. Have you read anything about electricity? Specific resistance and all. It's basic information, look it up.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Energy losses are due to resistance

    This is exactly why a military presence is needed. If the military can quell the resistance force fighting against the canal/waterway, then the energy losses from sabotage and theft would be minimized. A strong military presense is the only way to deal with this problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    No military is capable of defeating thermodynamics - resistance has known activity on every region on the planet, and apparently on every body in the galaxy too. Just the cost of sending an occupation force to Jupiter would be ruinous, let alone Afghanistan.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Are you fucking with me? Specific resistance refers to the conductors, copper, aluminum, silver, etc. An amount is lost to to it, and over long distances it adds up.

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