Comment on Why don't we pump seawater into deserts to revive them?

• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Upvoted solely because this is the sort of unhinged comment that I missed about the old internet

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• marsokod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Even as a slave, the cost of a human work is magnitudes above the cost of using a pump with petrol. A slave may be able to output ~1kWh per day, that’s mostly a few 10s of cents anywhere. Can you feed anyone on that?

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• Gadg8eer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why? They have dump trucks and dams in Africa, you know. Or did you think this was before Africa became the world’s fastest-growing and biggest market for cell phones?

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