I want to
maximize Hydro Electric power for
Earth in
the
distant future. So
I need the
designer geography such that
I
maximize two
parameters simultaneously. Maximize
hydro electro as well
as
life.
Pretend that there is
plenty of
material, say
rocks and
dirt etc.
We
will bring the
Moon and
Mars into
Earth's
Roche Limit and
bust them
apart and then
haul down the
pieces. But pretend we have
enough.
The
question is, what would this
designer geography look like. The
only present
country on
Earth that is
100% hydro electric is
Norway,
but
I suspect that
Canada could do the same.
The
best design I have been able to calculate is sort of like a
golf
ball with its
dimples. So the
dimples are
high,
very high plateaus with
a deep
fresh water lake. And
life and
civilization lives in a
ring, a
broad ring around this lake. The ring is broad enough to produce all
agriculture. The
oceans would be between these rings of high plateau
lakes. In fact the oceans would be more like
rivers than oceans. A golf
ball with the
dimples is the rings and the oceans are between all these
rings.
Can
I turn the oceans into rivers?