Posted on 05/30/2015 7:38:27 AM PDT by ckilmer
I was joking.
I get your point. Everything here is bogged down in regulation and everyone has to have a say. I posted an article here recently about the delay of a firehouse opening because it was not fully ADA compliant.
California does not have desalination plants up and running because Jerry Brown is an idiot who would rather spend taxpayer money on a train to nowhere.
I refill all my empty water 'drink' bottles from the distilled water gallon jug too.
California's drought problem can be summed up in just those two sentences of yours. Well done.
It's a state run by democrats... that's the reason.
- I was just in a store where I saw a reverse osmosis system on offer for home use. It had a charcoal prefilter . . . .
- There is controversy over the virtue of using distilled water for drinking. In a class, a professor raised the issue of the osmotic pressure from the minerals in the cells of your mouth/throat towards the mineral-free distilled water. That issue wouldn't seem to bear on cooking water, tho.
A Facebook friend posted some stats on the flooding going on in Texas. All the rain that's fallen on the state in May comprises about 35 trillion gallons of water. That's enough to fill up California's reservoirs three times over. On the other hand, I looked up the total amount of water on the planet, and apparently it comes to 300-odd million trillion gallons—so what's been falling on Texas is a mere millionth of all the water on earth.
California couldn't even begin to affect the sea level by desalinizing water. Besides, most of that water will just end up back in the ocean anyway.
Good Lord!! that’s a staggering amount in Texas. poor people.
I would have never guessed remotely close on either the rainfall in Texas or the oceans of the earth.
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California needs to boycott this technology.
6 years, imagine, what Israel accomplished could be done in two Presidential terms. Two Governor's terms, if the EPA would let them.
Then again, Al Gore needs to be consulted, this might solve the problem of New York flooding in a few years, or it might empty the oceans. Al needs a couple years to set up think tanks for the federal funding. Perhaps we can sell sea water rights, Al can set up an exchange. The Clinton Foundation can take care of thirsty tuna.
Seven years, it'll take 20 for the politicians to take their share.
“California has a large body of Marxists who claim desalination is not earth friendly.”
That doesn’t make sense. It’s ocean water. The Sun does desalination of water all day long via evaporation.
My understanding is that large scale desalinization is energy intensive.
Either you burn a lot of Hydrocarbons (Israel has large natural Gas deposits offshore) or you build a nuke to power it.
Power for it is a big part of the equation.
True, energy is about a third of the cost. capital costs—that is the cost of construction are 1/3 of the cost. And then maintenance is one third of costs.
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