Browns's plan is to make all Californians into dirty hippies.
Posted on 04/15/2015 6:30:43 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Instead of spending money on a bullet train, California should build desalination plants. We cannot live without water or food. California supplies 70 percent of the food for the country and we have cut off water to the farmers to save the smelt fish. The legislatures are more interested in catering to their money backers than doing what is right for the citizens of California.
Which sounds better, water or rain? Anyone with an ounce of common sense and a firm grasp on reality would say water is the only answer. We don’t need a bullet train that starts in south nowhere and ends in north nowhere. We will need water for all of our life, but no one will ever need the train to nowhere.
Desalination is one method of gaining usable water as well as conservation of water being another. As with other commodities, we will be water rationed when needed and taxed whether needed or not, but paying for a train that won’t bring a single drop of water to a single community is beyond common sense and reality.
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How much water do 10 million illegals use?
UC Berkeley is researching DeSal plants that run on wind, solar and drum-circle power. Check back in 30 years.
Browns's plan is to make all Californians into dirty hippies.
Forgetabout it....It’s California.
(Chinatown)
Just stop wasting half the water on endangered species.
Build another dam.
Or wait til it rains so hard for two weeks that reservoirs are back to normal.
Desalinization ought not be necessary.
Paging Kristin Olsen. Get on this!
“California” as in the state?
Can’t even think of getting out of the way of the private sector so they can build such things? Nah; too busy protecting the “Delta smelt”.
California is today what the entire country will be tomorrow if we don't stop the progressives NOW
Because government/socialism can never work . government can never be trusted to do anything effective as this example proves. Politicians and government bureaucrats in liberal/democrat California are planning bullet trains when they are in a severe drought. that's the insanity of government.commuter trains are a goal of socialism (public transportation) which trumps real needs . that's why capitalism and the free market with no government interference is the only way to go.
Apparently it would only take about five or six desalination planets and the (presumably thorium) reactors to power them and the problem in California goes away other than for the cretins still dumping water in the ocean for the sake of “Gaea” and the delta smelt, rather than allowing it to be used in the Central Valley.
I don’t believe the 70% figure. I know California produces a lot but other states also produce a lot of certain food. For instance Kansas produces more wheat than any place. I bet Nebraska does the same for corn.
Florida produces more citrus. The largest cattle ranch in the country is in Florida, not California.
Huntington Beach Desal is in final engineering (2 yrs. away min)
Santa Barbara Desal at 7 mgd is about to be taken out of mothballs and will go on line early next year (if schedules are kept).
Marin and Monterey desal's are in engineering (have been for ages). If fast tracked two years away
Water reuse project (toilet-to-tap) projects are ongoing everywhere.
Just for reference: 50 mgd is enough water for about 12,000 households, (IIRC).
Every time I see your governor’s picture, a big sign in my head says: “What were they thinking?” You might have had an excuse the first time, but you’d think you’d learn.
I wonder though if they may have been sold since 2012?
The largest desalinization plant in the Western Hemisphere is under construction at Carlsbad, Calif. and an identical one is planned for Huntington Beach, an hour north in Orange County CA.
Both in solidly Republican country.
Some like myself, say in their support emails and postings: Build desalinization plants in Calif., not trains to nowhere.
Desalination “ought” not to be necessary - but it is.
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