Posted on 04/06/2015 12:57:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
With the Sierra Nevada snowpack at its lowest level since 1950, California Governor Jerry Brown announced last week that he would implement the first mandatory water reductions in state history. But Brown also called on districts to streamline permitting practices for water projects, and to invest in new water infrastructure technologies. Brown’s comments amount to his first vocal support for widespread desalination (or desalinization).
“Today we are standing on dry grass where there should be five feet of snow, “Governor Brown said at a press event in the Sierra Nevada mountains. “This historic drought demands unprecedented action. Therefore, I’m issuing an executive order mandating substantial water reductions across our state.”
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Moonbeam ping!
They should build on by Salton Sea. Clean it up in the process...............
That’s going to require a lot of windmills, since California refuses to build power plants and leeches off the grid instead.
He may be trying to get in front of the crowd, realizing that he and his moonbat cohorts have largely created this problem themselves (and hoping nobody notices this rather salient fact).
Desalination for long-term drought relief.
Deshowerization for short-term drought relief.
California is filled with environmental extremists and desalination plants are far from a sure thing there.
Desalination should be low on the list of solutions.
They should make more secure, fundamental infrastructure improvements first.
Desalination seems like another way to avoid doing what they should have been doing 50 and 60 years ago, capturing water, creating reservoirs, more efficient importation and moving of water within the state, passive and permanent solutions that would offer a safer base for water in case of terrorism or a nuclear exchange, power disruptions and catastrophes.
Despite what liberal Californians might believe, desalination doesn’t “just happen.” For the amounts of water California wants, it will require fairly large infrastructure built, and lots of energy to operate. That energy isn’t “created somewhere else” for free and delivered in unlimited quantities.
Can’t wait to hear the NIMBY’s when the propose to locate these plants.
Can’t wait to hear the Green Weenies squeal when they talk about how much electricity those plants will need.
They want desalination? Build a series of Thorium Molten-Salt nuclear reactors along the coastline, and use the heat output to distill the sea water, condensing it as pure water, and use the waste heat extracted to generate generous amounts of electricity.
The technology is either off-the-shelf, or can be developed rather quickly using existing engineering. And why do we want all this electrical generation power? To produce hydrogen by electrolysis, and make available in industrial quantities, to fuel all those “green” motor vehicles.
But wait, somebody might make a profit out of this, and that is CLEARLY evil and not to be condoned.
RE: Desalination Gains Gov. Brown’s Support for Long-Term Drought Relief
DESALINATION plus HIGH SPEED RAIL. Does California have enough money for BOTH projects?
Exactly!
What difference does it make?
RE: What difference does it make?
TAXES and DEBT for the state of California.
Let them do it on the cheap, force them to drink salt water.
Jerry Brown just said that the current drought is proof that global warming is upon us. But this article said that the snow pack was this low in 1950, obviously a drought year. My question is: Was the 1950 drought caused by global warming? And studies recently suggested that California had an 80 year drought about a thousand years ago. Was that drought also caused by global warming? Brown is supposed to be an educated man but his remarks about the drought and global warming are juvenile.
“Long term” = after the train to nowhere is paid for.
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