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Old 06-01-2018, 03:38 PM   #1932 (permalink)
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Very poetical. And all too true.

Debt and entitlements could be disrupted by the technology to grow houses from high-tech 'seeds'.
Can't happen.

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High-rise hydroponics: 1/10th the water, no soil erosion, nitrogen runoff, etc.
That might work nice for a couple hundred million people in the world.

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Ship that glacial meltwater to LA?
We might be able to eventually drag an iceberg and beach it at Qatar. But who would pay?