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The Suez Canal presents a different way to do it.  You could simply draw sea water out and if needed flush excess brine out the other end.

Ponds likely would be alongside the canal, in this case, so canal shipping would not be combined with the brine canals or pools.

In the example of the Colorado River, then it might be that no canal shipping will be desired, but maybe it could be done.  Irrigation is typically in conflict with shipping, but in this case your farmland is precision fermentation in the brine canals/pools.

It might make vastly more sense to do this with the Nile River.  The productivity might simply be off the charts.

And if Shade Balls could be made from atmospheric CO2, then, it is all over for the Green Doom Goblins.

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Here I have put a solar awning over a Shade Ball Canal:

Yes, there is a wiki for Awning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awning

A question exists about desert rivers.  Is it smart to dump fresh water on the ground to irrigate crops?  Could I make a case for dumping at least some of the water into brine canals?

I think I can.

Tony Seba and Rethink X are partially into a thing called Precision Fermentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RethinkX

Here is a video: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … ORM=VRDGAR

In the cross section of a brine canal, depending on temperature and salinity, you could grow certain extreme organisms. 

Oxygen from air should be possible to inject though the shade balls into water or by some other means.  A food like Acetate can power the "Crop".

It may be possible to incorporate many functions into these canals.
-To inhibit evaporation or even to promote condensation from the air into the canal.
-Utilizing "Superpower" to store thermal energy and to maintain salt gradients.  Cold on top and warm on the bottom.
-Using the bine canals to ship materials will be somewhat in conflict with the thermal storage, but never say never.  If a tow train could pull it along, special barges might be able to move though without disturbing the thermal stratification too much.
-The brine automatically has anti-freeze of salt.
-The specific gravity of the brine would be better for lifting loads.

If you are in the Great Basin or the Colorado River, it makes more sense to inflate brine canals with solar panels and shade balls, then to dump fresh water on the ground to irrigate bulk food.

In other words, with Salt from the Salton Sea and water from the Colorado River such structures as this could be made with a very large output of benefits, I feel.

For Utah, same thing with rivers, and salt deposits.

And it could likely run mostly off of "Super Power".

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Let's talk tariffs, and then later perhaps other things.

Trumpian Tariffs come in several flavors.
1) So far for Canada and Mexico, help me with a problem or else, 25%.
2) Reciprocal drop your tariffs, (And tricks), to 0% and you can access our markets at 0% tariffs.
3: National Security Tariffs.  (Steel, Aluminum, Cars?).

For #1: Mexico appears to have responded as we would like, so far, not too bad the border is much more under reasonable control.

For #2: Vietnam has responded to do the requirement of #2.  Peter Zeihan has indicated that Mexico and perhaps some other parts of so called "Latin America", and also SE Asia will be our best trade partners.  So, now everybody has to compete with Vietnam from those places for the things that those two locations can provide us.  0% Tariffs.

For #3: Steel, Aluminum, and heavy machinery.  Well, the trust levels for Canada have deteriorated a huge amount, as we are getting "Elbows Out!" responses, and then you tell me that Canada hired a bunch of potential Jihadis to work in their car industry.  None of that is reassuring.  It seems that we have been foolish to trust Canada.  If we "Fell and could not get up", it seems that Canada may be the kind of guy "Who would crawl over his dying mother to rape his dying sister".  Under no circumstance should we trust you to be loyal in a war situation.

If we cannot rebuild those National Secuity Industries, then we need to distribute our sourcing to other nations if possible.

Using #1 as leverage, we are also threatening tariffs for nations that assist Venezuela.  That appears to be working.  This benefits everyone else's hydrocarbon industry.  Arabs, Russians, Canada, etc.  There is more supply than market.  Venezuela has made itself into a hate machine and this is the rewards they will reap for that.

Back to Canada and Mexico, I think Mexico has the easier situation.   They have a market to offer to us.  Canada has less of a market to offer.

And if we try to make Canada go 0%<>0%, you have a problem.  Quebec at least needs tariffs, to protect its dairy, and Canada does not want to become excessively reliant on the USA for that.

I will come coldly clean, I do not crave Alberta, although it would be sort of exciting.  But I would rather Alberta become a Republic or stay with Canada.  Not so much a state, as we would be taking territory if Alberta=State.  Alberta as a Republic, might be possible to do a 0%<>0% as long as they did not facilitate tariff bypass for goods from the rest of Canada.

This would integrate their petrochemical industry with ours more.  And it would be a passage control BC<>The rest of Canada, just as Canada has threatened passage control Alaska<>Ther rest of the USA.  Also, it would give us some interaction with other products of Alberta.

But to avoid this sweet kindness from us, all Canada has to do is give Alberta it's pipelines.  But we could still tariff Alberta products if it remains in confederation.

For the USA long term energy is probably not a problem.  Internally, for now we seem to have enough.  We would have to modify our refineries to handle shale oil, though it I think it is desired not to have to do that.

I don't like the Green Doom Goblins, but I think that solar and wind with batteries will become a actual thing of significance.  I don't think it wise to depend on it 100% though as the Greenies from Europe seem to think is a nice "Hair Shirt" to wear.

In addition, it is likely that Natural Hydrogen will be a thing for us somewhere on the Continent.
It is highly likely that data centers may be powered by Nuclear and/or Geothermal, local to them so that power does not have to flow through a grid.

It seems somewhat likely that Fusion will become actual, but I suspect that it will not be competitive with Solar or Wind.  It would be fantastic for Mars and Titan though.

Space Solar may become actual also.  The Brits and some others have a need and that could work for them.

We also have Oil Shale, not just Shale Oil.  We do not tap Oil Shale at all but could if we had to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale
https://geology.com/usgs/oil-shale/unit … hale.shtml
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As for labor, the rate of expansion of robotic/automated labor will not be infinite but it will be like many fire hoses full on.

If this works out, we will as my mother would have said it "Be Sitting Pretty".

We can also talk about the Russians.  My theory is they do not value expanded, land Aquisition as much as they value Russianoid people.  They do have Crimea now, for their navy.  They will want their Russians back, with the land, if possible, but also otherwise.  They could get many of them back if they could do a "Butter" deal with us.  But they seem to be brooding over their nest which is Eastern Ukraine, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, for the larger part.  I think they will only occupy west Ukraine to turn it into a neutral state, if they have to.  They may maintain interest in Transnistria.
So, Moldova has concerns.

If they do otherwise then they will betray themselves, and we can reposition our activities accordingly.

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Thank You Metatron: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … &FORM=VIRE
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I will say maybe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBAqM9es_yk
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I suspect that it is true that civilizations have times of genius "Capable Men" and times when the Idiot "Dominant Man".  So, I consider it quite possible for a people to master navigation like the Polynesians, or Phoenicians.  And then to sink into stupidity if "Dominant Man" gets the upper hand in mating.

It is my opinion or suspicion that female persons sometimes bring a society away from genius, as to cause men to fight gives them a more fit male.  However, the more fit male is "Dominant Man", so stupidity wins and the Stone Age resumes.

I will bet lots of people don't like me saying that.

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It is not much deferent than how the than how the western church appeared Caesar was to some extent a faker for political reasons.

Caesar had what he had been given for the purpose he was to serve, and the church itself was under the guidance of higher power as well, if you believe that.  If you don't believe that then why care if the culture of Eastern Orthodox is infiltrated.

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Due to my intrusive mistake, I will try a bit harder to explain:

Relating to #2857: The British people are not regarded as bad.  Rather perhaps the corpse of the previous British Empire echoing around the former possessions.  Several forms of contamination ride with that zombie.

My own diagnosis is that we do not want the "Dominant Man", we prefer the "Capable Man".  My view is that the evil "Dominant Man" is greatly represented in the very old worlds, including the Middle East.  It is a process where the brains have been eaten, and domination is regarded as good, and Christianity is regarded as stupid.  Some of these evil forces ride though the corps of the previous empires, to pollute our parts of the world.  So, you don't misunderstand me, I believe that many from those places who may have talents come here and are useful, but many more only come to bring brain death to us.  They killed the Muslim civilization around the 13th century.

That is not necessarily what other people believe in the post #2857, but it is my current theory.

This is not a moment where I need to convert you to such a political diagnosis, I recognize that that is not likely to be useful for you, and I don't need you to.  It could even be dangerous for you if you offended some high demon of power (A human).

That is one vector of the diaspora.  The other one is the collision of the Pseudo Siberians with the Migrant Europeans in North America.  I don't think that there was much representative government in Europe prior to that.  Then the lights turned on.

When I see the British and French lusting for a blood bath, I feel that that is the lights going out.  And I don't want America anywhere in that.

So, to us the Siberians and Russians are not so terrible.  After all the so-called natives here, could be pretty fierce, to each other and also to new arrivals.  I am not at all willing to see America put to service to subjugate the Eastern Orthodox Churches to the descendants of the Roman Churches.  That is not what we exist for.  Our recent maneuvers seem to be the very best at killing off middle eastern Christians.  It is very suspicious.  Is this to kill off "Heretics"?  We are having the lovely display of the killing of Syrian Christians now. 

America should not be facilitating that for the Roman Church, if that is what is happening.  The Church should not have the powers of Ceasar.

The entrance of the USA into WWII seems to have been for worthy but sad reasons, but now the use of the aftermath of that to do things that are not at all related to ending criminal governance, is very wrong, and I deeply resent that our nation was deceived and taken captive by certain powers.  And now we want release from that.

As for post #2858:  The demons are trying to use "Dominant Man" methods to have unearned power, and they are violating our culture and constitution.  It is glorious to see America fighting off the evil demonic zombies from other lands, and those of our own as well.

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This is fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KarzQIUilug
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It seems to boil down to a lower court, instructing DOGE, to undo, what the Executive branch did to entities such as USAID.

A higher court ruled that it was not acceptable to demand that.

DOGE does not have the power to do the Executive actions, the President and his officials do.  DOGE can only advise, it cannot do or undo, Executive actions.

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Something I want to mention is surface salinity of such a reservoir.  Salt in water reduces evaporation, so if you have brine at perhaps -2 degrees C, that will absorb water from the air much better than would fresh water at -2 degrees C.

https://teacherscollegesj.org/does-salt … -of-water/
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I recall reading a long time ago that the Great Salt Lake absorbs moisture from the atmosphere in the wintertime.

Of course, then once you have captured the water from air, then the salt reduces is utility to humans, so then the water would need to be extracted from the brine.  I am old school, so I will suppose that distillation of some sort might be used.

However, I think that if you lived in Florida, and simply wanted to directly absorb water from the atmosphere, you might use fresh water.  The water just under the shade balls would be near freezing, and the water 6 feet or so below that might be at as much as 39 degrees F.  (3.89 degrees C).

In that case the heat extracted to create the cold might go towards some sort of lower temperature industrial heat.

In lower humidity locations though I think brine and the storage of heat on the bottom and cold on the top may very well pay off.

The desert southwest of the USA, and I suppose elevated Mexico, are perhaps, reasonable places to attempt to use this.  They are generally expected to have good sunshine.

Of the 48 lower states, even the Canadian border is at about Northern Spain or Southern France.  Most of Europe and Canada are at higher latitudes than that.  The somewhat dry southwest of the North American continent is at about the latitude of the Sahara Desert.

To be made to support a greater population, more water would be helpful.  Then you don't have to export electricity to where the water is, instead you import water from the atmosphere.  And then people can follow.  These are also places where winter heating may tend to be a lower level of burden.

In making this attempt I have tried to turn Salt and Carbon into resources.  So, then if there is a buildup of salt somewhere like the Salton Sea, it can be taken to another location where an atmospheric condenser might be set up.  That then turns the accumulation of salt in the Salton Sea as an asset, and the salt level might be brought down to more desirable levels.

And so also, I am hoping for the mass production of Shade Balls, to incorporate Carbon into.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade_ball
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Manipulations might include color and albedo.   Concerns might be if salt will coat them and change the color and albedo.

But if solar panels were placed over the shade balls this will be less of a concern.

Another concern would be to try to reduce the shedding of microplastics.  I don't think it is a large concern, as microplastics more come from tires and clothing.  But looking into optimization is perhaps worthwhile.

My actual hope is that over time the hydrocarbon industry can be weaned away from burning materials as fuels, and towards making useful tools like Shade balls.

Also, a hope is that it would become attractive to extract CO2 from the atmosphere and make shade balls.  This could possibly get the Doom Goblins to leave us alone and quite trying to peasantize us.  Peasantization is something many of the elites are always trying to achieve.  If you make the masses poorer, you can feel richer and so much above them.

If shade ball pools and solar panels altered the color and albedo of a location, a microclimate alteration might be possible.

As I understand it, trees in a desert may cause the high sky to be cooler than otherwise, and so rain is more likely to happen.  However, if the desert is too harsh or animals degrade the forest too much, the trees may die off and so less rain will fall.

Solar panels, or solar mirrors>thermal device, or shade balls, are non-living, so if the desert is too harsh for trees, they can function anyway.

The question of energy from nuclear fission or fusion.  I am beginning to think that these will emerge, and that they may make more sense in places like Canada and Europe.  They might not be so competitive where solar is a good option.

However, when Fusion emerges, that will change things in the solar system where Titan and Mars will both become more attractive.

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I guess I have wanted to mess with DUNE for a while.

Don't get me wrong, I like the story's.

But in an alternate universe, the freemen should have handled Dune differetly.

Bring in Elon Musk with the Boring Company.

Drill tunnels in the bedrock connecting their settlements.

There is some hint of tiny ice caps.  If so, then water mined could be moved though the tunnels.
If no ice then depending on how cold an ice cap would be you might be able to condense water out of the air and then move it through the tunnels.  As the tunnels would be planet wide linking all rocky surfaces above the sand plains, no need so much for the sand walk.

Now add drones with thumpers, or heavy metal music.  Rather than to wait for the worms to come and harass/destroy your spice harvester, you harass the worms with such drones, leading them astray from the spice harvester.

So, there, I ruined Arakis, but I like my Arakis better.

So, then this demonstrates how invention can change a reality.

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It is not with enjoyment that I might suggest some brutal notions on this.

Indeed, if a Tariff is applied to a car from Canada, yes, the price of that car goes up, but soon, car production will go up in the USA, provided there is sufficient labor at a reasonable price.  Cold blooded logic says we can steal your plant and then even your trained labor.  It appears that we may get robot labor that may cost say $3.40 an hour and can do perhaps 70-80% of the tasks.

As for your minerals, you will still sell them to us, unless you have a better alternative.

It is a rather brutal future for Canada, perhaps.  Or have I missed something?

I am not actually enjoying pointing these things out.

Russia is like any other, they want to win.  They may be more of warrior than farmer than the more south and western Europeans, and that needs to be kept in mind at all times.

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I think Mexico will do nicely as they have a good market.  But they may either have to drop their tariffs and work with us or make their own little world.  Canada may not be as fortunate.

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I still like Peter Zeihan, but he is definitely cozy with the dreaded "Deep State".  I think his world view is anchored in the 20th century.

Should one ever put their hand in a bears mouth?  I never would if I could help it.

His article is from the 4th, so his comments about investors staying away may have been true then, but now there is this: https://www.newsweek.com/business-trump … on-2048775  Quote:

As far as Firefighters: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol … 083835007/

I don't think that all fire fighters have been fired, but it is concerning that perhaps some protection has been removed.  This is concerning also as it will tempt the same people who do bad things to people Tesla's, may be interested in doing very wrong things.

So, I have some concerns, and hope that the administration will take note of needs for corrections to major actions, if any are needed.

The Tariffs are of two types, as I understand it.
-Incentive to cooperate with border issues.
-Reflexive.  If a country tariffs our food exports, then we will apply a tariff to them of a proper proportion.

So, then all one needs to do to get rid of the tariffs is to remove their own tariffs against the USA.

Of course, Quebec will say no, I expect.

Is the Canadian Auto Industry primarily in Ontario, or is some in Quebec?

I hope to have a peaceful discussion with you Robert, so that I can learn.

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