Posted on 04/05/2015 12:00:01 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
“Funny thing is that CA doesn’t really have the power grid to support significant numbers of desalination plants.”
Well, texas has its own grid. Last time Calie had massive blackouts, Gray Davis got all pissy with Texas. Said we were charging too much. Think he wanted it free. Well, Texas has excess power capacity and lots of natural gas. But, we ain’t gonna give any of it to you. You’ll have to pay, and pay, and pay, lol!
So, the state of California, who is the most environmentally responsible, most dedicated to green energy, most hypersensitive about pollution and the planet is running out of water?
Proof that God has a sense of humor!
“They will pour into the Intermountain states, Texas and the Midwest and turn most of them a disgustingly deep shade of blue.”
yeah, they’ve ruined Colorado. About the Midwest and down into Texas; the Ogallala Aquifer is rapidly being pumped down. And, once it’s gone this region will be in a world of hurt too. I’m thinking Calie folks are gonna just have to stay put and learn to drink their own urine, lol!
Unless you also pray for repentance, don’t bother. There is usually a reason God stops the rain: Sin. 2 Chronicles 7:12-14 holds the key. But if a people aren’t willing to humble themselves and turn from wickedness, what’s the point?
Now I see all the interest in the high speed rail project. To move everybody out at a high rate of speed.
There is gold in that brie, literally.
Imagine that.
So built a nuke plant next to the desal plant. FWIW, I understand the energy requirements for desal are headed down.
Another thing I heard was there will be limited water used to fight the inevitable forest fires that California will have this summer. Lack of snow pack will mean prime conditions for these to occur and quickly get out of control. So, other than scooping water out of the Oceania there will be no available water to put the fire out. To some extent this is also a problem in OR, WA, ID, MT and WY. All of the Pacific northwest had a very mild winter and has very little snow pack in the mountains. Meanwhile, here in NH, I can finally see ninety percent of the grass in my backyard. My roof as of yesterday was finally clear of snow. The pile from the plow guy is down to less than two feet. It was over six feet high. The brook across the street sounds like Niagara Falls. I think you could kayak it right now. There is still up to a foot of snow in the woods in the shade. All the ski areas are still 90% to 100% open.
Leave our water alone.
Sorry, just not true. There is plenty of water for cities, as the vast majority of water is used by farmers. Charged at way below the cost of providing it, BTW.
So California cities aren't really threatened with significant shortages, CA ag is.
Which is at least at root the inevitable result of implementing massive agriculture of crops with high demand for water in a desert.
Oh well. At least the Snail Darter will get its fill of water. Californians can HOLD THEIR HEADS HIGH about that.
In the past, they used to PLAN for stuff like this - and they would STORE WATER. And they would store MORE WATER as their populations grew. They achieved some of the greatest engineering accomplishments ever, considering when they did it. And then they just SAT ON IT, for decades. I guess now the “Chickens are coming home to roost”. Hard to feel sorry for them.
“They still have an Ocean that can be desalinated. But they probably fear the ocean would run out of Water.”
They are not THAT DUMB. I’m thinking that their fear is about what happens to the salt they pull out. If you dump it back in the ocean, then the salinity of the water in the Pacific Ocean increases, and desalinization gets less and less effective.
Of course if you do the math, you don’t have to worry much about that effect until about 4,578,944 A.D. (i.e. about 4,576,929 years from now), but they stopped teaching math there, so people can’t do the calculations anymore - and those that do will be tarred as “salinity deniers”.
Joe Bastardi predicts substantial rainfall in the SW through the summer and fall, so maybe Mother Nature will come to the rescue, at least for the moment.
Alaskan water pipe line!
“De-sal plants can create relatively huge quantities of fresh water. It is only a question of scale and cost. Desalinated water is one to two orders of magnitude higher than natural water, but it is infinitely cheaper than abandoning billions of dollars of installed infrastructure.”
According to Wikipedia, desalinated water in the US costs 0.3 cents per gallon. That may add up to a lot of money to grow almonds, but a house using 5,000 gallons per month would see its water bill increase by $15, at the very most. Where I live, that would be a 15% increase. Electricity prices in California have gone up way more than 15%, and those bills were higher to start with.
California is run by an idiot.
While he tries to build a fast train to nowhere, there could be money for a desalination plant and is his pocket is money from construction companies who keep bulidling new homes like they’re going out of style.
They let the fresh water flow straight into the ocean to protect a fish when they could build a damn dam to catch the fresh water to store for later. Its the evironwhackos who are governing.
Villahermosa gets about 70 inches of rain annually and Veracruz about 65 inches.....yeah , that`s where they should migrate to. Plenty of water there.
I wonder if all those illegal immigrants might have something to do with their water shortage? If they had closed their borders long ago they wouldn’t be in this situation now. I wonder if having the homo capital of the world in that state, Sodom & Gomorrah II, plus Hollywood has anything to do with their land being cursed either?
To escape the dust, Cali’s will migrate to Oklahoma
to me, the interesting fact seems to be that by design, modern California is being destroyed by drought rather than earth quake
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