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Will Turning Seawater Into Drinking Water Help Drought-Hit California?
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Posted on 04/05/2015 4:32:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Turning Democrats into ex-office holders will help Californians more than anything else!!!
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posted on
04/06/2015 7:24:30 AM PDT
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ontap
To: BenLurkin
That briny waste is one of many concerns raised by environmentalists and other critics of desalination plants Wait a minute. When water from the ocean evaporates to make clouds and rain, where does the salt go then? Why is this a problem?
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04/06/2015 7:38:07 AM PDT
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Gritty
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To: BenLurkin
The intake, where ocean water first enters the desalination system, is about half a mile off the beach. Once it gets to the plant, the water flows through gravel and sand filters and finally, when all the debris is gone, into the reverse osmosis membranes salt removers.
Huh? But since 1992, shouldn't there have been enough global warming to where the intake is farther under the ocean, not farther up the beach? I would assume the intake was originally built in the ocean, which means sea levels are lower now than they were...?
To: Gritty
When water from the ocean evaporates to make clouds and rain, where does the salt go then? Why is this a problem? It's not.
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posted on
04/06/2015 1:04:35 PM PDT
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Jeff Chandler
(Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
To: BenLurkin
In 1977, I made sales calls to California. There was a severe drought then as well. Restaurants used to bring a glass of water to everyone when they were seated. California restaurants stopped this tradition. Never been so thirsty in my life, even though I hardly ever drank the water before they quit automatically serving it.
Hotels also gave out instructions on how to shave, brush your teeth, bathe and use the toilet when you checked in.
Governor at that time was...um...lemme think....Oh, yeah! It was Jerry Brown.
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04/06/2015 1:16:06 PM PDT
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N. Theknow
(Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
To: Gritty
Water evaporates from the ocean at an average of 1,399,573 gallons per acre per year.
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04/06/2015 2:12:43 PM PDT
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Jeff Chandler
(Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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