Canada to California pipeline aqueduct and hydro-turbine power generator.

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William Shatner envisioned moving fresh water to parched California from Canadian lakes through a pipeline aqueduct. I realized that installing large Gorlov in pipe hydo-turbines would generate terawatts of cheap, non-polluting, sustainable power. Plenty to energize a Hyperloop overhead. The "Conservative Straw Hat Republicans" traditionally delivered these kinds of large hydo-electric infrastructure projects in the past, with private investment, to irrigate and power our economy.   

The beauty of Gorlov's helical hydro turbine is that the blade turning backwards against the flow actually accelerates due to the "hydro-foil effect", and the turbine helps push the water through the pipe instead of slowing it down! They can be positioned in series at a calculated interval, and all deliver the same amount of power.

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"The OTA examined a plan to run four 14-foot diameter subsea aqueducts from Alaska's Prince Rupert Sound down the Pacific coast and then across Northern California to Shasta Lake".

"The estimated cost of the 1,400 mile pipeline was $110 billion, which would have required imported water to be sold at up to $4,000 per acre foot".

This concept would involve pumping the water. The Gorlov hydro turbines would run the system and generate excess power as well to sharply lower the per acre foot cost!

"Prince Rupert is known as "The City of Rainbows", as it is Canada's wettest city, with 2,590 millimetres (102 in) of annual precipitation on average, 2,470 millimetres (97.2 in) of that total being rain; in addition, 240 days per year have at least some precipitation, and there are only 1230 hours of sunshine per year, so it is regarded as the municipality in Canada which receives the least amount of sunshine annually".

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Williston Lake Reservoir in British Columbia, Canada:

Williston Lake is a reservoir created by the W. A. C. Bennett Dam and is located in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.

Area: 680 mi²

Surface elevation: 2,201'

Length: 156 miles

Width: 96.31 miles

Volume: 17.75 cubic miles

Catchment area: 27,799 mi²

Province: British Columbia

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Distance from Williston Lake to Shasta Lake, CA:

1,708 km or 1,050 miles.

The elevation of Shasta Lake (reservoir), when full, is 1067 feet above sea level.

That's 1,215 feet of drop over a distance of 1,050 miles.

That's roughly 1.15 feet of drop per mile.

Lake Williston is an artificial Hydro Electric reservoir that empties into the ocean, not for irrigation. We can catch the wasted spill off beneath the sluice.   

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"Too slow a flow, and the meandering trickle would pick up unhealthy sludge".

"A consistent, gentle slope was the goal of the Roman engineers. The slope of the Pont du Gard aqueduct in Southern France drops only 2 feet per mile along its length of 31 miles".

A slope of half that inclination would create a "Sludge" problem for the Romans, but it shouldn't present an insurmountable problem for our 21st century engineers. 

Perhaps it would help to filter or distill the water at the source.