[LINK] FLoods taking out banking infrastructure

Marghanita da Cruz marghanita at ramin.com.au
Fri Jan 14 10:13:43 AEDT 2011


Tom Koltai wrote:
<snip>
> As yet no-one has built a data centre in the centre of Australia with
> abundant solar energy (and even some other "clean" energy if one cares
> to negotiate with the US D.O.D.); fibre to Brisbane, Adelaide and Darwin
> and there hasn't been any known floods since about 30,000,000 BC
<snip>

The solar angle is valid but not the floods. One of the 
problems with the flooding in Central Australia is that it 
is flat and the water sits around for a long time - this is 
how the Artesian basin gets replenished. But it does take 
time for the water to soak in, if it runs off then it is 
lost. The Todd river in Alice springs floods or is dry. 
Floods are hugely valuable in Agricultural terms.

One of the issues is that residential macmansions have been 
built on flood plains, while trees and wetlands have been 
developed.

Marghanita
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