Posted on 06/28/2016 4:58:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Israel produces desal at 25-30% of CA costs. because of US and CA EPA regs.
If only they died , what would be wrong with that?
Nuclear gives you both. If they want to rule out nuclear, I guess they can die of thirst in the dark. F’em the dopes.
Search “Kokoweef”. The legend tells of an underground river with shelves of gold. Eastern Mojave in California, between Baker and Las Vegas. Heck, you once, and maybe still can, buy shares in a mining company looking for it. I think I’ll pass, but ya never know...
Idiots. You can do both. The man that wrote the article is totally ignorant of Geology.
Agreed! And stop developing in dry areas.
This exactly. Yes population is a problem, but the bigger problem is that the enviro-nutjobs keep blocking all sources of water from being touched because they say there is some rare life form in those sources.
I imagine they will search extensively to find life in the underground aquifers so they can block it. Kinda surprised there haven't been more lawsuits over the desalinization plant they are building in Carlsbad.
It’s the San Jose Water Company’s rates.
New desalination plant producing water at $.52 per 1 cubic meter/265 gallons versus drilling and pumping(?) costs.
Does the cost figure for natural water include building an impoundment dam and reservoir, or viaduct for transport. What about the loss of value of the land which previously enjoyed a source of water, until the water was diverted to a coastal city?
Proposals for desalinization plants, meet a lot of opposition, from environmentalists with outrageous claims.
The biggest such plant opened about 1 1/2 year ago, in Carlsbad.
A similar plant is proposed for Huntington Beach, CA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_desalination_plant
10,000 foot head to lift against with a multi-stage centripetal pump? A more modest effort—3hp will lift a little more than a gallon a minute from +1300 foot. About $1.90 per cubic meter in electricity at $.15 kWh. Perhaps a walking-beam pump would be more efficient?
Desalination is less than 1/4 the costs.
The price for natural water was provided by a different freeper, and I don’t know what it includes.
I’ve never understood why California, with all that coastline, doesn’t have a desalination plant every 150 miles or so. It’s not like the Pacific Ocean isn’t the largest body of water on the planet or anything.
Yeah, they might run out of water.
“The solutions to Cali’s water problems are readily apparent. Drill down or desalinate. Pretty simple.”
There are 3 desalination plants planned or under construction in Baja California. They will be selling water to us. It is pathetic that Mexico has its act together in solving this problem while California wastes resources on the “bullet” train fiasco.
On another level you've convinced the Mexicans that accepting electrons that represent bits of colored paper backed by the full faith and credit of the US government (in other words faith that people will keep accepting US paper money and credit) might be a huge fraud they won't realize until its too late.
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