I don’t understand why california doesn’t build them by the dozen.
Someone should let California know about this. Maybe they could build a few of these instead of that stupid bullet train.
California has struggled with desalination efforts in the past.
No, it’s the idiot, lefty environmentalists who have stifled talk about desalinization efforts in the state. That, and the fact that probably ten to twenty million people are living in that state who shouldn’t be there in the first place.
I wonder what they do with the salt and minerals that they extract from the water?
California may not have any water but it will have a multi billion dollar bullet train to nowhere.
When I was in Croatia in 1993 with the UN ,the bottled water we had was from Israel ,LOL
“California? Please pick up the White Courtesy Phone in the Lobby!”
Earth to Moonbeam.
Earth to Moonbeam.
Come in Jerry.
Based upon the cost and production of the Israeli desal plants, the estimated cost of California’s high speed rail would produce over 6% of the current total water production in the state.
There are a couple ways to desalinate seawater, most of our Navy ships used distilling plants back when I was involved in their construction (70’s). They may have switched to reverse osmosis nowadays - but there is no excuse for California’s problem since the ocean is, you know, right there.
52 cents per cubic meter - 264 gallons in 1 cubic meter.
Of possible interest.
Desalination is much too complicated. Jerry can’t even spell it.
“In Israel, environmental costs are not taken into account when calculating the costs of desalinated water,” said Nurit Kliot, a professor of environmental studies at Haifa University.
Lets hear it for the big ice melt!
Current level of the Yam haKinneret (Sea of Galilee).
http://www.savethekinneret.com/
Gotta suck being a Democrat in California - knowing that a bunch of JEWS halfway around the world had the same problems with water, but instead made mincemeat of the issue by applying a bit of technology.
The US should proceed with nuclear power plants, which convert heat into electricity via steam-driven turbines, to capture the steam, recondensed as salt free water. This will generate two revenue streams: the sale of electricity and the sale of the water. The bilge that is also collected can then be used to “salt away” the nuclear waste material. This competitive in cost just regarding water, not even taking the electricity into account. It is green, since no carbon dioxide is released. It also avoids the possible problem of returning chemical-like wastes into the source of the water, as the by-product of salt and whatever else is in the water is buried with the nuclear waste.
California learn something? Don’t make me laugh.
Water desalinization plants do not fit in with the climate change acolytes’ concept of “sustainability.” It consumes too much carbon emitting power. They want water conservation, reuse and austerity instead.
“The environmental group the Surfrider Foundation, which has fought the Carlsbad plant at every turn, expects the plant to be an object lesson in how not to guard against water shortages. Among other things, the foundation emphasizes the energy needs of the plant, which will consume 5,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity to produce an acre-foot of water.”