Posted on 04/22/2015 11:59:33 AM PDT by ckilmer
Sounds like liberal logic to me.
A lot of Californians want to boycott Israel along with their good ideas.
Shatner went too far north. A pipe or aqueduct from the Columbia River to Northern California is all that would be needed. Apparently southern Oregon could use the water too. Oregon could collect money for fresh water which is currently going into the ocean.
Because the Israelis don't have options, we do.
If I wanted to start a bottled water company, would you suggest that I base out of Minnesota or Death Valley?
The only thing that has made California economically viable for agriculture is dirt cheap illegal labor.
Did you tell her that it would make Babs Streisand and the Malibu Mafia mad for distancing their ocean view?
Perfect answer to a lefty. Hopefully, if that moment ever arises again, I’ll have the answer on tap.
I’m quite sure the expression on my face after she said that would have made a lot of people laugh.
Much of California features sun and wind. It is a coastal state. Wind/solar desalination plants could provide the majority of the required drinking water, leaving the rest for agriculture and industry. Of course the envirowhackos would bitch about some plankton being inconvenienced...
But you'll never see that proposed in SoCal Earthquake country following Fukishima.
that will have to wait until the 4th generation portable msr reactors come on stream in 10 years.
Much of California features sun and wind. It is a coastal state. Wind/solar desalination plants could provide the majority of the required drinking water, leaving the rest for agriculture and industry. Of course the envirowhackos would bitch about some plankton being inconvenienced...
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You have to credit the dems for having a grand strategic energy vision. the pubbies drill here drill now is out of date. what’s needed by the pubbies is a vision the kills the cost of energy and water so that both are 1/4-1/10 current cheapest coal and desalinized water. wind and solar power won’t get you there. only 4th generation portable msr nuclear reactors and MAYBE MAYBE MAYBE one or more of the fusion solutions being put out by a variety of very very respectable players these days. But whereas fusion is always a crap shoot the 4th generations msr’s are a pretty straight shot. And a lot of deep pocketed players are jumping in the game around the world.
Ron Brown father Pat back in the 1960’s was about the last california governor besides Reagan who understood water.
the big tools available today make that kind of labor obsolete and expensive.
paints are one way of doing it but materials surfaces can also be tailored on a molecular level in such a way as to make them impossible for organisms to cling to.
don’t ask me how. I just know the materials research crowd have the tools to know how the organisms grip surfaces and then how to create surfaces that thwart that grip in depth.
The last big water project in the state, the California Canal (?), was mandated during his administration, I think.
There is about 36 trillion gallons in lake Tahoe and its up hill from where the water is needed.
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