The Problem With Ocean Salinization and Solar Energy

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I'm helping a colleague of mine develop an area on the coastline of Peru. They only get rainfall like five, six days a year and there are no living things there. So I came up with this idea where you pump water from the sea uphill. And then you can irrigate it out to parts that we are going to convert into arable land. There is lots of desert reclamation technology that the Israelis have developed. But before all that happens, we need water but evaporation is a problem.

In this episode, Simon Michaux returns to discuss his new paper “A Resource Balanced Economy”, which outlines an alternative economic and social system. This conversation builds off of his two previous episodes on The Great Simplification, unpacking the ideas and tools that will be helpful in planning for an unknown future with more energy and material constraints. How can we be more intentional about the design of our technology to make products that are longer lasting and easier to reuse? How can we organize society to create resilient communities based around actual human needs, rather than endless efficiency geared towards growth? Can an ‘Arcadian Blueprint’ emerge, and at what scale, and by whom?

About Simon Michaux:

Dr. Simon Michaux is an Associate Professor of Geometallurgy at the Geological Survey of Finland. He has a PhD in mining engineering. Dr. Michaux’s long-term work is on societal transformation toward a circular economy.

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