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Topic: The Death of College Football - Realignment, NIL, Portal, Etc.

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SFBadger96

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« Reply #3458 on: February 12, 2026, 01:27:35 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on February 12, 2026, 10:39:26 AM
Well, on behalf of California, I want to say thank Iowa for growing/raising so much of our food.

It really helps us focus on things like inventing the technologies driving the world's future. Tough to do that on an empty stomach!

[and we continue to grow more food for the US than any other state, although Iowa and Nebraska punch way above their weight (and yes, those jokes write themselves)]

I was somewhat recently in Alabama with a good friend who lives there (and is from Louisiana). He loves Alabama, "except all the damn Alabamians."
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« Reply #3459 on: February 12, 2026, 01:30:09 PM »
Quote from: SFBadger96 on February 12, 2026, 01:27:35 PM
[and we continue to grow more food for the US than any other state, although Iowa and Nebraska punch way above their weight (and yes, those jokes write themselves)]

I was somewhat recently in Alabama with a good friend who lives there (and is from Louisiana). He loves Alabama, "except all the damn Alabamians."
This still surprises me given all the water issues out there.
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« Reply #3460 on: February 12, 2026, 02:12:55 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on February 12, 2026, 01:30:09 PM
This still surprises me given all the water issues out there.
I wonder what leads to that. The state is lower than I’d expect in farm acres. 
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« Reply #3461 on: February 12, 2026, 03:06:18 PM »
California has the most land (I'm guessing, I haven't bothered to look that up), and most of it seems farm-able to me (I haven't looked that up either).  Texas, meanwhile, loses lots of square miles in poor farming land.  The entire hill country, for example, is not too good for farming.  Some of the more desertish areas too, I reckon. 

No surprise CA would be the biggest food producer. 
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« Reply #3462 on: February 12, 2026, 03:10:34 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on February 12, 2026, 03:06:18 PM
California has the most land (I'm guessing, I haven't bothered to look that up), and most of it seems farm-able to me (I haven't looked that up either).  Texas, meanwhile, loses lots of square miles in poor farming land.  The entire hill country, for example, is not too good for farming.  Some of the more desertish areas too, I reckon. 

No surprise CA would be the biggest food producer. 

Alaska's even bigger, surely they have a lot of farmland and a lot of people working those farms.
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« Reply #3463 on: February 12, 2026, 03:16:12 PM »
Ice farming doesn't count.  
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« Reply #3464 on: February 12, 2026, 03:49:12 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on February 12, 2026, 03:06:18 PM
California has the most land (I'm guessing, I haven't bothered to look that up), and most of it seems farm-able to me (I haven't looked that up either).  Texas, meanwhile, loses lots of square miles in poor farming land.  The entire hill country, for example, is not too good for farming.  Some of the more desertish areas too, I reckon. 

No surprise CA would be the biggest food producer. 
No hills or deserts in CA. 
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« Reply #3465 on: February 12, 2026, 06:49:38 PM »
California's water issues are...complicated. The middle and northern parts of the Central Valley have also been referred to as the inland sea, which were (and frequently are) well supplied by Sierra Nevada snowmelt (from those hills that don't exist). Historically, much of it does get a fair amount of water. The problem is the biggest part of the state's population lives in a place that doesn't have much natural water, so it gets it by shipping it from elsewhere--both northern California and the Colorado River. I think--if I recall correctly--California is actually very productive per farming acre, so it's not merely a big state; it's a big state with very productive farm land.
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« Reply #3466 on: February 12, 2026, 07:11:07 PM »
Why don't they just desalinate the ocean water? 
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« Reply #3467 on: February 12, 2026, 07:18:15 PM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on February 12, 2026, 07:11:07 PM
Why don't they just desalinate the ocean water?
It's not cost-effective.  Yet?
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« Reply #3468 on: February 13, 2026, 08:32:33 AM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on February 12, 2026, 07:11:07 PM
Why don't they just desalinate the ocean water?
It takes a lot of energy to do that, and wind and solar farms aren't productive enough.

Yet??
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« Reply #3469 on: February 13, 2026, 09:20:43 AM »
Electricity from waves and tides uses the ocean's motion—predictable daily tides and constant wave action—to turn turbines or activate hydraulic pumps, generating renewable energy. While waves produce power from rising and falling water, tidal systems use barrages (dams) or submerged, fan-like turbines. Though reliable, high infrastructure costs and potential marine environmental impacts limit widespread, commercial-scale deployment.
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« Reply #3470 on: February 13, 2026, 10:03:53 AM »
That's another very expensive way to do it.

Cruise ships use it for long voyages across oceans and such. I can always tell when they switch from fresh water (filled at the port) to desalinated water.
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« Reply #3471 on: February 13, 2026, 10:09:42 AM »
Well there isn't much water left in Lake Mead. It's down to 33% of its full capacity. 
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