Fracking has a clear connection between action and reward.
Oil company uses fracking → it’s super effective → oil company pumps oil → oil sells at a high price. Then the oil company makes some political donations and the government is encouraged to allow it despite any damages to less politically connected people’s property (contaminated groundwater, microearthquakes or even the possibility that fracking causes this. This is why fracking is banned in certain states and many EU countries)
Desalination has similar action → reward mapping, as long as the water can be produced for a price that it is profitable to sell the water, it’s worth doing.
This proposal just generally increases rainfall in the area it’s done in. But a lot of the water will just fall on barren desert, and the rainfall is inconsistent, and it’s hard to tell how much of the rain is from the seawater evaporation. And it can’t be excluded as a good—you can’t deny water to people not paying the subscription fee.
Fracking has a clear connection between action and reward.
Oil company uses fracking → it’s super effective → oil company pumps oil → oil sells at a high price. Then the oil company makes some political donations and the government is encouraged to allow it despite any damages to less politically connected people’s property (contaminated groundwater, microearthquakes or even the possibility that fracking causes this. This is why fracking is banned in certain states and many EU countries)
Desalination has similar action → reward mapping, as long as the water can be produced for a price that it is profitable to sell the water, it’s worth doing.
This proposal just generally increases rainfall in the area it’s done in. But a lot of the water will just fall on barren desert, and the rainfall is inconsistent, and it’s hard to tell how much of the rain is from the seawater evaporation. And it can’t be excluded as a good—you can’t deny water to people not paying the subscription fee.