[BenLurkin]

Have had the misfortune of dealing with the creeps from the "Natural Resources Defense Council". They are scumbags, in my opinion.

Just my opinion of course.

[MV=PY]

I’m confused by this.

Reverse osmosis desalination plants are in operation all over the world, and have been for years.

Is this a new technology that is less expensive? There is no mention of that in the article.

???

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Ability To Obtain Clean Drinking Water From Salt Water A Near Reality, Says UCLA Professor

I assume this is from 1914 rather then 2014?

Or is UCLA hiring stupid people again.

[RansomOttawa]

What a wonderfully awkward conclusion.

While a number of scientists and environmentalists believe desalination is the technological wave of the future, the debate over when, or if, that future will ever become reality, continues.

We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.

[ansel12]

the onetime dream of President John F. Kennedy of obtaining fresh water from salt water may become a reality in the very near future.

I just knew that JFK could make this happen, what a visionary.

[jazusamo]

"Natural Resources Defense Council". They are scumbags, in my opinion.

Little doubt about that, the longer they can stretch this out the more money they make and that's what they're after.

[yarddog]

I guess sea salt would be a bi product.

[rottndog]

They’ll have their cheap desalinization plants producing clean drinking water as soon as the cold fusion reactors are ready to power them.

[morphing libertarian]

Here’s some info on desalinization

http://www.pacinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/desalination_report3.pdf

Carlsbad Cal is building a pant which is slated to open in 2016, 16 years after the proposal was approved by the city. Administrative hearings and court processes in which environmental groups got several bites of the apple trying to shot it down.

[PubliusMM]

“A number of environmental organizations, however, including the Natural Resources Defense Council and The Orange County Coast Keeper, are yet to be convinced of the potential benefits of desalination.”

So...now we have environmentalists standing in the way of fresh water for human consumption, perhaps the only substance without which humans cannot survive.

Seriously upside down priorities.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Environmental whackos are Luddites when it comes to ANY new technology that is even remotely related to the environment.

[sten]

I never understood why a lifeboat wouldn’t have a water desalination system to desalinate sea water

a shallow amount of salt water over a black surface in the sun would evaporate quickly... have a collector to grab the steam and condense. it would also double as a solar collector for electricity. of course, this woukd only work in bright sunny areas

of course, if you could generate enough power, you could desalinate using electricity

[Sherman Logan]

Recently looked it up. Utilities in CA are presently paying about $2.50 per 1000 gallons for water. Desal can supposedly be implemented for around $3.75.

[Greenpees]

I guess I’m proud to say that I, and the crew that I led, broke ground and installed the underslab utilities in that very Port Hueneme facility. I alway thought it was a good idea, and a badly needed solution to the problem of “water everywhere, but nothing to drink”

[Two Kids' Dad]

Any coastal area should be able to get desalination done with minimal energy expenditure if they could just get turbines to harvest the energy of the tides and currents and use that energy to power the plants, supplementing it with grid electric as needed and selling any excess energy back to the power companies.

Heck, they could even do some simple evaporation pools to augment their clean water output.

[Pox]

I work in Carlsbad and drive by this construction project frequently. It seems to be progressing nicely, and I’m happy to say that the end product will not be piped to Orange County.

[Yaelle]

I need a home desalinator and I’d never have to worry again.

[Starstruck]

the onetime dream of President John F. Kennedy of obtaining fresh water from salt water may become a reality in the very near future.

Isn't this the dream of every individual who was standing by the ocean....and is thirsty?

[Sacajaweau]

It’s all about government figuring out how to make money off America’s successes....regulate, tax, oversee, fine....pass it on to consumer....repeat as necessary to fund “social programs”.

[Thorliveshere]

I am Dr Paul Flammond. I am a prisoner here, just like you.
A year ago, I was close to perfecting the first magnetic desalinisation process.

So revolutionary, it was capable of removing the salt from over million gallons of sea water a day.

Do you realise what that could mean to the starving nations of the earth?

They’d have enough salt to last forever.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Have had the misfortune of dealing with the creeps from the "Natural Resources Defense Council". They are scumbags, in my opinion.

James Taylor of "Fire and Rain" fame was a founder of the NDRC.

It's so disappointing what a left-wing scumbag he is.