How much water would we have to transport (or teleport) off from Earth (to the Moon, or wherever,) in order to lower the sea level by just one foot?
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Egao No Genki
ANSWERS: 5
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Can't say exactly. But am sure its more than a foot at everyplace. Because for every foot of water you remove, atleast 10 feet would be added the very next moment. And so to reduce the overall level by a foot, you need to teleport actually more.
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Easy as Pi. Calculate the surface area of the earth (4*pi*radius-squared) and then multiply it by 70.8% (the percentage of the Earth's suface covered by seawater) to get the total area of seawater -- or just look it up online or in an encyclopedia -- and then multiply the result by 1ft to get the volume in cubic feet. Answer: approximately 3,886,165,324,800,000 cubic feet or 29,070,535,416,685,700 US Fluid Gallons.
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And "Jack-The Computer" needs to work on his computational skills. The overall rate of increase due to percipitation, runoff, and polar thawing, is essentially identical to the overall rate of evaporation and polar freezing, so it wouldn't just "fill right back up again." (Reminds me of the guy who was afraid that pumping bilige water from all the boats on the lake into the lake would raise the level of the lake.)
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Um instead of just throwing the water away why not store it in some type of water treatment plant? Silos? You know we can drink that water.
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millions, probably billions of tons of water. but that could have the effect of permanently damaging many ecosystems, so prolly not a good idea.
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