atacama

The biggest problem is the use of water in areas that are very water-poor, ie the Atacama desert.

Said a different way, would adding Starbucks in the middle of the Atacama desert grow Peruvian entrepreneurs?

You start to appreciate things like how big Brazil and Indonesia are and other things like how far the Atacama desert stretches.

You can guess in the Atacama and still lose a lot of points!

> If you situated it somewhere like the atacama desert, then you'd be right on the ocean Well, the Atacama is 8000ft above the ocean, so the energy required to pump the water up there would be significant.

Some time ago, during the winter we went to visit the Atacama Desert with my wife (she was born there).

The Venusian atmosphere at that altitude is super dry, only a few score ppm of water making it much drier as Earth's Atacama desert.

If you situated it somewhere like the atacama desert, then you'd be right on the ocean, and that's where you could source the water from.

Given these issues, it's no wonder that a mountaintop in Hawaii, and another one in the Atacama desert, are now the preferred locations for optical astronomy.

If you're in the Atacama Desert, I doubt it's 40%, but not really relevant.

Several years ago I backpacking in the Atacama desert in Chile.

Having lived in the Atacama desert I know there are already ways to do it and am very curious about the efficiency of this new system.

The "last place" referred to in the title is the Don Juan Pond not the Atacama Desert mentioned in the first paragraph.

Googling for "atacama elevation" yields 7K-13K feet for me depending on the result.

They're not going to work in the Atacama.

Though, in windy areas (the US great plains) or sunny areas (Atacama Desert in Chile, much of Africa, Australia (outside the coasts), and Southwestern US), these are the least expensive source of new capacity and that's reflected in the free market -- what is getting built.