Comments on: Water Trading http://timworstall.com/2007/10/19/water-trading/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:45:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim Winfield http://timworstall.com/2007/10/19/water-trading/comment-page-1/#comment-1057 Jim Winfield Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:39:32 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2007/10/19/water-trading/#comment-1057 I seem to recall many years ago some wild schemes to supply water to the Middle East by towing giant icebergs, mooring them offshore and pumping off the wwater as it melted. Then someone else topped that by the simple expedient of filling supertankers with North American water and sending them to the Gulf when they would normally go in ballast. A return load for a supertanker - can't be bad? Never heard what came of it - maybe desalination with the cheap gas they have was better all round. I seem to recall many years ago some wild schemes to supply water to the Middle East by towing giant icebergs, mooring them offshore and pumping off the wwater as it melted. Then someone else topped that by the simple expedient of filling supertankers with North American water and sending them to the Gulf when they would normally go in ballast. A return load for a supertanker – can’t be bad? Never heard what came of it – maybe desalination with the cheap gas they have was better all round.

]]> By: Matthew http://timworstall.com/2007/10/19/water-trading/comment-page-1/#comment-1037 Matthew Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:52:15 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2007/10/19/water-trading/#comment-1037 Tim, you seem to be having a conversation with yourself about imaginary protests. Water futures is an interesting one. Can you store it and deliver it? Tim, you seem to be having a conversation with yourself about imaginary protests.

Water futures is an interesting one. Can you store it and deliver it?

]]> By: IanCroydon http://timworstall.com/2007/10/19/water-trading/comment-page-1/#comment-1023 IanCroydon Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:02:24 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2007/10/19/water-trading/#comment-1023 But ... but ... desalinization is a CO2 emitter ! But … but … desalinization is a CO2 emitter !

]]> By: Philip Thomas http://timworstall.com/2007/10/19/water-trading/comment-page-1/#comment-1010 Philip Thomas Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:27:44 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2007/10/19/water-trading/#comment-1010 The whole water issue is massively overhyped. Bjorn Lomburg in "The Skeptical Environmentalist" makes clear that it is only groundwater that is running short, that we exploit the merest fraction of rainfall and that even the hawks of arid Israeli admit that desalinisation plants are a lot cheaper than a war over water. Life just isn't any fun for ecofascists unless we're running out of everything. The whole water issue is massively overhyped. Bjorn Lomburg in “The Skeptical Environmentalist” makes clear that it is only groundwater that is running short, that we exploit the merest fraction of rainfall and that even the hawks of arid Israeli admit that desalinisation plants are a lot cheaper than a war over water.

Life just isn’t any fun for ecofascists unless we’re running out of everything.

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