The world is running out of sand

[Landslide]

We all have the issue of having to watch the sources - OP's vijayo is full of schist too

You’re one of those world sand disappearing deniers eh?

 

[ExWrench]

You’re one of those world sand disappearing deniers eh?

I'm honestly unsure if you missed a play on words in what you quoted there

 

[Arps]

I believe there may be some in the Sahara, but Ive never actually been there

 

[XtremeJ]

Researchers found saharan sand in underwater caves in the Caribbean

any yachtie in the islands can relate, decks in late summer are often red from Sahara sand

 

[Splib]

20+ years ago, some professor told me China was losing (some alarmingly large amount of) land every year to desertification.

(IIRC, the message® was that we had to pay to reverse climate change & use less water everywhere.)​

China has excess sand & a highly exploitable, desperate population low labor costs . . . sounds like that sand problem is just a wish (dotcom) away from fixed

Also, if you scoop sand out o' da o-shen, the sea level will drop & the iceberg-melting alarmists would fuck off about global warming, right?

Adding the mass of the sand to dry land will diminish and lessen isostatic rebound from the last ice sheets and lead to subsidence, which will be mistaken as sea level rise -

Source - Splibism, book of Splib

 

[ExWrench]

Adding the mass of the sand to dry land will diminish and lessen isostatic rebound from the last ice sheets and lead to subsidence, which will be mistaken as sea level rise -

Source - Splibism, book of Splib

 

[Thatg9659]

All these morons crying about the sea level rising, but nobody wants to damn up the rivers that flow into it.

Weird seems like such a simple solution.

 

[ExWrench]

damn up the rivers

But then the rivers will be too dam high

 

[Splib]

All these morons crying about the sea level rising, but nobody wants to damn up the rivers that flow into it.

Weird seems like such a simple solution.

Get er done !!! Army corps of engineers is hiring

 

[fordguy]

All these morons crying about the sea level rising, but nobody wants to damn up the rivers that flow into it.

Weird seems like such a simple solution.

ship water to mars.

 

[Gbkeith]

The plow crew must get moist looking at that. Plowing in summer?!

They use sweepers on the highway down around Kermit and Wink.

 

[ApeEater]

 

[ExWrench]

Investing in precious minerals - good idea, hoard that shit while it's still available

I'm stocking up on pebbles & a claw hammer - I'll be able to make sand if I need it

 

[JR4X]

90 million pounds of sand

That is how much we are stuffing in the ground this year for our drilling/fracking project. 3000 truck loads from Az 220 miles to NM.

 

[ThePanzerFuhrer]

90 million pounds of sand

That is how much we are stuffing in the ground this year for our drilling/fracking project. 3000 truck loads from Az 220 miles to NM.

Which seems like a lot but it isn’t really all that much . Thats only 45,000 ton.

 

[JR4X]

Which seems like a lot but it isn’t really all that much . Thats only 45,000 ton.

Only 45K ton for 15 wells, for one dinky little company As an industry I bet we’re putting away millions of tons a year. We need the round grain. We want the balls to lock together but round grain can’t seal shut so gas and oil can pass through the voids in between grains.

 

[Landslide]

HA! I found the mother load

 

[ExWrench]

the mother load

The cumshot that impregnates?

Ohhh . . . mother lode^

 

[Mr.Ratbastard]

All the sand in everyone's vagina these days.

 

[What?]

On a related note: the sky is falling!

Better start shooting at it!!

 

[JR4X]

All the sand in everyone's vagina these days.

We’ll never run out of that will we

 

[Gdogg]

LMAO

 

[SLOWPOKE693]

90 million pounds of sand

That is how much we are stuffing in the ground this year for our drilling/fracking project. 3000 truck loads from Az 220 miles to NM.

Crazy that they are trucking it that far when Monahans is the frac sand capitol of Texas.

 

[speed bump]

Crazy that they are trucking it that far when Monahans is the frac sand capitol of Texas.

That's about 600+ miles from the field he works in.

 

[78bronco460]

Imagine if forged pistons and rods and cranks will cost less to make than castings. What a strange problem.

 

[JR4X]

Crazy that they are trucking it that far when Monahans is the frac sand capitol of Texas.

What? Monahans is 580 miles instead of 220. 3000 truck loads is over a million miles difference between Arizona vs Texas and trucking costs by the mile. We’re talking about 4 corners area at the Colorado border not the Texas border.

 

[SLOWPOKE693]

What? Monahans is 580 miles instead of 220. 3000 truck loads is over a million miles difference between Arizona vs Texas and trucking costs by the mile. We’re talking about 4 corners area at the Colorado border not the Texas border.

Then trucking it 220 miles shouldn't be a big deal.

 

[Landslide]

 

[ExWrench]

 

[frank c]

There are a couple sand quarries south of me. One is owned by a concrete company, the other has sand that is good for golf course sand traps. They truck it up closer to where I live and ship it out in rail cars.