On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:48:26 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Wait until the price of water out west gets as high as oil, I say.

Probably won't happen since 1 gallon of diesel fuel produces enough
power to desalinate about 80 gallons of water.

On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:11:07 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:

On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:48:26 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Wait until the price of water out west gets as high as oil, I say.

Probably won't happen since 1 gallon of diesel fuel produces enough
power to desalinate about 80 gallons of water.

Still, that's expensive water when considering how much we use. I
recently heard a guy from Levi's state that one pair of 501s uses 975
gallons of water over it's life cycle. Of course, that means growing the
cotton to washing the jeans. Still, that's a hell of a lot of water.

thunder wrote:
On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:11:07 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:

On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:48:26 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Wait until the price of water out west gets as high as oil, I say.
Probably won't happen since 1 gallon of diesel fuel produces enough
power to desalinate about 80 gallons of water.

Still, that's expensive water when considering how much we use. I
recently heard a guy from Levi's state that one pair of 501s uses 975
gallons of water over it's life cycle. Of course, that means growing the
cotton to washing the jeans. Still, that's a hell of a lot of water.


You *wash* your jeans? Heresy! Heretic!

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On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 19:33:44 -0400, "Don White"
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On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:58:15 -0500, Wayne.B
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On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:39:45 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Here around the Great Lakes water is cheap
Heh, just wait until California builds that pipeline... !
They'll have to get approval from the Canucks.
They watch that water level like a hawk.
I don't think they care to water California lawns.
Water is, after all, the source of precious bodily fluids.

--Vic
Not just Canada... the US states that border the Great Lakes are
also very interested in preventing any massive diversions to the US
west.
Heck, I won't complain about cheap water.
But I've seen the issue raised about the local water flow here in
Illinois. Diversion into the SAG canal and then the Illinois river
it tightly controlled by U.S./Canadian agreements.
Wait until the price of water out west gets as high as oil, I say.
Then sell it. I'd really like to sell them the snow before it hits
the ground. --Vic
We have a water well here, couple of hundred feet + into the aquifer.
Pretty good water, too...we have it tested at least once a year. I
believe the current charge around here for well digging is $10 or $11
plus change a foot, so a 250-foot well would run around $2800 to the
wellhead. That includes the pump at the bottom of the well.
I paid $10. per foot way back in 1976 for a drilled 165 foot deep well
with casing from the top to the bedrock (about 25 feet)
I thought it was darn expensive then.

Hey! Send me 10 "loonies" and I'll send you whatever the exchange rate
is in U.S. dollars! What is the exchange rate these days?
Not near what it was a year ago.
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/cgi-bin/famecgi_fdps

maybe try ... http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/exchform.html
Looks like 10 loonies will only buy $7.87 yankee dollahs.


:) I'll send you 10 worthless American dollars for 10 "new" loonie
coins...


Our postage rates up here might equal the value of the coins ;-)
If you're serious, I'll go to the bank and see if they have any uncirculated
2008 coins. I doubt the 2009 are out yet.
The loonies and toonies are great for the card playing set.

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On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 19:33:44 -0400, "Don White"
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On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:58:15 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:39:45 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Here around the Great Lakes water is cheap
Heh, just wait until California builds that pipeline... !
They'll have to get approval from the Canucks.
They watch that water level like a hawk.
I don't think they care to water California lawns.
Water is, after all, the source of precious bodily fluids.

--Vic
Not just Canada... the US states that border the Great Lakes are
also very interested in preventing any massive diversions to the US
west.
Heck, I won't complain about cheap water.
But I've seen the issue raised about the local water flow here in
Illinois. Diversion into the SAG canal and then the Illinois river
it tightly controlled by U.S./Canadian agreements.
Wait until the price of water out west gets as high as oil, I say.
Then sell it. I'd really like to sell them the snow before it hits
the ground. --Vic
We have a water well here, couple of hundred feet + into the aquifer.
Pretty good water, too...we have it tested at least once a year. I
believe the current charge around here for well digging is $10 or $11
plus change a foot, so a 250-foot well would run around $2800 to the
wellhead. That includes the pump at the bottom of the well.
I paid $10. per foot way back in 1976 for a drilled 165 foot deep well
with casing from the top to the bedrock (about 25 feet)
I thought it was darn expensive then.
Hey! Send me 10 "loonies" and I'll send you whatever the exchange rate
is in U.S. dollars! What is the exchange rate these days?
Not near what it was a year ago.
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/cgi-bin/famecgi_fdps
maybe try ... http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/rates/exchform.html
Looks like 10 loonies will only buy $7.87 yankee dollahs.

:) I'll send you 10 worthless American dollars for 10 "new" loonie
coins...


Our postage rates up here might equal the value of the coins ;-)
If you're serious, I'll go to the bank and see if they have any uncirculated
2008 coins. I doubt the 2009 are out yet.
The loonies and toonies are great for the card playing set.



Sure, I'm serious! The difference in value between our dollars should
cover the postage. I'll tuck in something interesting, too. What, I
don't know...maybe a can of Herring.

On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:07:22 -0600, thunder
wrote:

On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:11:07 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:

On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:48:26 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Wait until the price of water out west gets as high as oil, I say.

Probably won't happen since 1 gallon of diesel fuel produces enough
power to desalinate about 80 gallons of water.

Still, that's expensive water when considering how much we use.

Most of the small islands in the Bahamas desalinate water with diesel
powered generators. The going rate for water at the marinas is 25 to
50 cents per gallon which is cheaper than making it yourself when you
factor in the cost of equipment plus maintenance. On the boat we get
by with about 15 gallons a day for the two of us.

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I'll tuck in something interesting, too. What, I don't know...maybe a can
of Herring.


There's probably a law against that... something about cross border
pollution.........

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I'll tuck in something interesting, too. What, I don't know...maybe a can
of Herring.


There's probably a law against that... something about cross border
pollution.........




Not to worry...it comes prepackaged as rotten.

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snip:
I'll tuck in something interesting, too. What, I don't know...maybe a
can of Herring.


There's probably a law against that... something about cross border
pollution.........


Not to worry...it comes prepackaged as rotten.


mmmmmmmmmm Johnny Rotten.. didn't he play for one of those 'punk
groups..'Sex Pistols'?

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:00:19 -0400, "Don White"
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snip:
I'll tuck in something interesting, too. What, I don't know...maybe a
can of Herring.


There's probably a law against that... something about cross border
pollution.........


Not to worry...it comes prepackaged as rotten.


mmmmmmmmmm Johnny Rotten.. didn't he play for one of those 'punk
groups..'Sex Pistols'?


Are you sure you two don't have something 'special' going on?