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Originally Posted by acparker
Storing water in open reservoirs in the Mojave desert is asinine. Evaporation rates are extremely high, 96 inches per year -- like trying to store water in a sieve.
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It may be asinine, but not due to evaporation. When the source of water is the ocean, it doesn't matter what the evaporation rate is. In fact, evaporation just makes more room for more ocean water to rush in through the turbines.
Now, the humidity caused by all this might have unintended consequences, and I have no idea what so much evaporation does in terms of depositing salt, possibly filling in Death Valley to level with the sea.