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Originally Posted by acparker
Ecological considerations aside, seawater would need to be pumped pretty high, at least a thousand feet, and quite a distance to reach Baker, the south and highest end of the valley, almost as far as Las Vegas is from the Gulf of California.
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freebeard suggested boring a hole to the Pacific to connect Death Valley. This is an area below sea level, not above. No pumping involved. You want massive evaporation so that sea water is forced to flow through the bored tunnel and turbines.
We'll just have to let other parts of the country have a chance at setting heat records.