What about the plant that already opened in Cambria?
How much will the consumer pay for that water? $5 per gallon?
When is the EPA and the california environuts going to shut it down?
To honor their cause, all the anti-Israel people in San Diego County are going to need to boycott tap water. And everything made with tap water. Like food.
This is a great story of human innovation.
[The idea for the plant is almost 20 years old.]
With all the droughts they have in Southern California, you’d expect them to move a little more quickly than this.
“...Eight pumps will push 54-million gallons of water 10 miles uphill every day...”
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I think those pumps should be powered by windmills and solar panels.
38 billion gallons per day!!!!!!???? could this be right? what California uses in a day. USGS estimate, whatever that is.
They’re gonna need a bigger desalinization plant.
And about 300 of them.
But, but, but this is gonna make the ocean salty ...
Is this the one mothballed for overa decade just sitting there?
We all know what is coming next.
It’ll all get washed away by The Great Flood of 2015.
Good news.
Well, this will also lower the ocean water level near there. Since the global warming geniuses decided oceans near California were rising faster than other places.
So the reservoir is at an elevation of 50,000 FT plus? LOL. They will have some serious pressure at the tap, for sure!
They could recoup some of their operating costs if the sea salt by-product was marketed and sold.