I've read that the energy required to run data centers uses more water than that required to cool them but the cooling uses about 1% of California's total water consumption. You've got a lot of stats to show me to convince me that farming is not the overwhelmingly main use of water, like 80%. Also 70% of the almond crop is exported...meaning some portion of that water used in almond production actually leaves the watershed entirely, and then you would have to calculate how much water and energy is needed to ship those tons of almonds to China and elsewhere to get a true almond industry water impact figure. Also it takes the same amount of water to build an electric car as it does a gasoline car and somewhere between 20 and 100 gallons of water just to produce, and that does not count distribution, which means pipelines, tankers, trucks and gas stations and their water impacts, think oil spills and the downstream effects of fracking and toxic seepage, 1 gallon of gasoline. So it is not that meaningful nor persuasive to quote the alarming water use of Green technology while ignoring or leaving mysterious the amount of water used in the current system.
this so true and only part of th e agenda to do away with a sovereign nations
I've read that the energy required to run data centers uses more water than that required to cool them but the cooling uses about 1% of California's total water consumption. You've got a lot of stats to show me to convince me that farming is not the overwhelmingly main use of water, like 80%. Also 70% of the almond crop is exported...meaning some portion of that water used in almond production actually leaves the watershed entirely, and then you would have to calculate how much water and energy is needed to ship those tons of almonds to China and elsewhere to get a true almond industry water impact figure. Also it takes the same amount of water to build an electric car as it does a gasoline car and somewhere between 20 and 100 gallons of water just to produce, and that does not count distribution, which means pipelines, tankers, trucks and gas stations and their water impacts, think oil spills and the downstream effects of fracking and toxic seepage, 1 gallon of gasoline. So it is not that meaningful nor persuasive to quote the alarming water use of Green technology while ignoring or leaving mysterious the amount of water used in the current system.