Because, you know, we can’t have a desal plant after diverting a bunch of California’s sparse water offerings to help protect a bait fish.
Water and power generation are both needed in CA. (as I’m sure you know)
Where’s the power going to come from? Taking salt out of seawater takes HUGE amounts of power.
I wonder what the economics of the plant would look like if they put the plant five miles inland, off the coast.
Also, I’ve read the highly saline water discharge is really harmful to aquatic life. The effluent outfall pipe has to be put FAR off offshore to avoid serious harm to aquatic life.
NIMBY. Don’t block our view!
Let California die.
How does this affect air quality? The coastline? Groundwater" And what is a vertical pool? Always generalities, but no scientific explanations.
Note the alternative proposed ... toilet to sippy cup recycled water. How much do you trust a government “public servant”, without any personal liability or responsibility, to do a mistake proof job.
NO WAY IN HELL they will allow a desal plant. The California Coastal Commission is full of the most tyrannical thugs you will ever find. There are several defunct power plants along the coast ready to be used. BUT NO. The idiots of California have decided that the old smokestack oil burners (Morro Bay) will be converted for battery storage.
If California was actually serious about green issues, they would link nuclear power generation to desalinization to reducing the waste stream from desal to harvest lithium and other needed metal byproducts. But they don’t really care about any of that. As with the bullet train to nowhere, they are all about the money.