Posted on 01/03/2015 2:35:39 PM PST by BenLurkin
The plant is expected to go online early this month after being finished in just six months, unusually fast in California. Projects of this sort typically take years, and often decades, of environmental reviews, public hearings and lawsuits.
Dozens of other cities and towns over the years have considered desalination plants as the way out of water shortages. Critics, however, say the technology is expensive, energy intensive and produces huge amounts of brine waste that damages the environment. California has 11 other desalination plants, and another 16 proposed.
Citing Brown's drought declaration, San Luis Obispo County and local Cambria officials announced the water-plant project in May and finished it by December.
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Don’t need a government reward - the market will amply reward anything that is useful enough that people will buy.
However it would be at such an insignificant level as not to have any true impact. The left just want those people to die, they could Not kill them at birth so they’ll take any means possible.
Well this pretty much guarantees that the drought ends this year
The Central Valley would love to keep that water and have adequate dams built. There isn’t much they can do about it with Democrats calling the shots.
Fixed it!
Internal stack overflow System halted
Just run the output pipe a mile offshore or however far the edge of the shelf is there. The brine will sink to the bottom...
And Taxes...
The brine issue is something that can be mitigated. It is not a technological given that it necessarily has to become an environmental issue.
The other 16 plants on the drawing boards should be built toot sweet.
If and when the drought goes away, Californians must acknowledge it will be back, again, and again, and again. They should not close desalinization plants merely when the drought goes temporarily away. Instead, when the state is not dealing with drought conditions, the plants can continue to operate at less than Maximum capacity; continue to be well maintained; and help provide water to the state water storage systems when not needed for immediate consumption.
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