Posted on 02/06/2014 8:18:00 AM PST by Phillyred
The Central Coast is in much need of rain, and one group is asking for it in a unique way. The Central Coast Center for Spiritual Living hosted a rain dance in Templeton Park on Saturday. A Native American reverend led the dance. Rain dances have been performed by American Indians for hundreds of years, to evoke water during dry seasons. The Center for Spiritual Living says it believes the power of many minds focused on the same goal will produce results. They also held a meditation session after the dance, and prayed for rain.
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time for a Janet Reno dance party.
I’m not surprised that they waited until the forecast called for rain before beginning to dance. Waiting for the claims of success...
Because global warming is all about the science
“Next, a voodoo priestess will shake some magic chicken bones and a dowser will find a vast new aquifer using nothing but a forked stick.”
I kinda doubt the chicken bone thing, but I attest to the fact that you CAN find water with a ‘divining wand’.
Take two wire coat hangers and straighten them out. Then twist the the two together except leaving two ‘handles’ on one end.
It will look like a large ‘L’ except there will be a short leg on each side.
It should be quite long when finished and all you can do gripping the small wire handles to keep it out straight.
You can test it by gripping it to hold it out straight while walking over an area that you know has underground springs.
When you go over an underground spring it will point down like it was pulled by a powerful magnet. You won’t be able to grip it tight enough to keep it from pointing down.
An old farmer showed me how it worked and I was amazed at how well it works.
***Timing has a lot to do with the success of a ‘rain dance’.***
How true! I have a book written by George Catlin in which the Mandans were trying to conjure up rain. One man on an earthen lodge singing his songs to bring rain when lightning struck and killed him.
The people began to mourn and wail, another medicine man noticed the clouds still building, then he ran upon the earth lodge began to sing and dance, then the rains came.
The second medicine man, who was not killed, took all the credit for the rain, which Catlin said was forming naturally.
“When you go over an underground spring it will point down like it was pulled by a powerful magnet. “
You should warn people. I made one and tried it out over a lake. It pulled me to the bottom and I almost drowned.
Huh? I heard they’ve got kalifornicators at the border handing out water for those adventurous invaders.
They did it in the early 90’s (1992 I think) in San Diego. It worked. March was so rainy it ended a drought of several years in one month.
The Indians know rain dances. Get them out of their casinos and doing something useful.
Except you’re talking bull$hit, and I offered fact that might interest some FReepers.
Here’s some info on desalinization
http://www.pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/desalination_report3.pdf
Carlsbad Cal is building a plant which is slated to open in 2016, 16 years after the proposal was approved by the city. Administrative hearings and court processes in which environmental groups got several bites of the apple trying to shoot it down.
What happens to the salt?
The desalination plant typically uses three kilograms of seawater to produce 1 kilogram of fresh water. The extracted salt dissolves in the excess sea water used in the process to form so-called brine. The brine is returned to the sea where it is diluted again in its natural medium.
Can salt be recovered?
The usual desalination processes do not provide for such recovery. Whereas they concentrate seawater 1.5 times, recovery of salt would require seawater to be concentrated ten times. Under such conditions the first crystals would appear in the brine. This would require a lot of energy and cannot be justified on an economic standpoint. Today whenever a large surface area is available close to a sunny seashore, salt pans, which make use of solar energy, are still the best method of salt production.
Billions were spent in the last drought with a desalination plant that was shutdown and abandoned.
The only working plant I know of is on Catalina Island.
“Except you’re talking bull$hit, and I offered fact that might interest some FReepers”
You don’t believe me?
“Billions were spent in the last drought with a desalination plant that was shutdown and abandoned.”
Why was it abandoned? Politics? Cost? Has the technology improved?
Permit approved for desalination plant at Huntington Beach
The bid to build a sea water-to-drinking water facility at Huntington Beach is cleared by a regional water board. But environmentalists say the plan endangers sea creatures and risks fouling the ocean with discharge.
Nut cases from the fringe that sue everyone or stop any progress.
“All that water in the Pacific Ocean they have out there and they can’t figure out how to use it.”
It would have been real easy years ago when we were building nuclear power plants instead of closing them. And If Jerry the Fairy really wanted to leave his mark here, he’d be dropping his Billion Dollar Toonerville Trolley, and begin in earnest to solve our water problem. At least he could cut off water deliveries from Northern California to the $hit hole that is Los Angeles.
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