Las Vegas is F*CKED ... Running Out of Water and Electricity
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A couple of locals have been doing videos on the alarming drop in water levels at Lake Mead. It's nothing new. It's been going on for 20 years. But now, it is at crucial levels.
Here, they show how the water level has dropped, and how the reservoir is running dry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCBG_aVkv4s
In this one (more recent), they show how the turbines at Hoover Dam, that generate electricity, are just about far enough out of the water that they won't be able to produce electricity anymore. That will shut down 1/3 of the electricity in Las Vegas:
By this logic we'd only live in a narrow suitable band on the planet, with summers being insufferably miserable but at least survivable. If we had unrestrained energy (no environmentalist stranglehold on nuclear, building refineries, using coal - which can be burned quite cleanly anyway - etc) better living through technology is just fine.
People were living all over the world without electricity, oil, or coal, for untold millennia. Maybe not as comfortably, but adaptively. Think of the ancient underground cities in Turkey. Very sensible in a hot dry climate. And here in Phoenix we do have nuclear power, but we are over 300 miles from the nearest ocean to supplement the water. Water usage here is not appropriate to resources. I'm not kidding about 600,000 swimming pools, that's a low estimate. Lawns are worse.