I wrote:
40% of the population may have to be relocated. If it does not
rain in the next few years Australia as a nation may not exist.
That's awful! I did not realize the situation is so dire.
I wish those people in Australia would take a serious look at cold
fusion. As I described in my book, it could be used for massive
desalination projects. In an emergency, I think this could be done in
a relatively short time, say 10 years after making cold fusion into a
reliable source of heat.
Some simple, relatively low temperature methods of desalination with
cold fusion might be implemented quickly. Low level heat would be
used to remove, say, ~99% of the salt. In the final stage of
production you would probably want to use a more sophisticated
conventional method to rid the water of the remaining salt, to
prevent salt build-up in the soil.
Using cold fusion, I think that even a small population like
Australia has enough manpower and money to implement a large scale
project of this nature. I do not think they could do it with
something like uranium fission or wind power (assuming the latter is
available). That would be too expensive and would require too much
infrastructure. There have been fission powered desalination plants,
by the way.
Australia may even have enough brain power to develop cold fusion
largely on their own. It appears that Israel does, and they are even
smaller than Australia.
- Jed
