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Desalination Gains Gov. Brown’s Support for Long-Term Drought Relief
Breitbart.com ^ | 04/06/2015 | Chriss W. Street

Posted on 04/06/2015 12:57:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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1 posted on 04/06/2015 12:57:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Moonbeam ping!


2 posted on 04/06/2015 12:59:11 PM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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3 posted on 04/06/2015 12:59:59 PM PDT by QT3.14 (Germanwings: Obama locked us out and is doing the same to the USA.)
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Yikes! Brown says something sensible?
Must be another sign of the Apocalypse.
4 posted on 04/06/2015 1:01:23 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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They should build on by Salton Sea. Clean it up in the process...............


5 posted on 04/06/2015 1:02:49 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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That’s going to require a lot of windmills, since California refuses to build power plants and leeches off the grid instead.


6 posted on 04/06/2015 1:03:35 PM PDT by Ingtar (Capitulation is the enemy of Liberty, or so the recent past has shown.)
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To: El Cid

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).


7 posted on 04/06/2015 1:04:44 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Desalination for long-term drought relief.

Deshowerization for short-term drought relief.


8 posted on 04/06/2015 1:08:43 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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California is filled with environmental extremists and desalination plants are far from a sure thing there.


9 posted on 04/06/2015 1:11:07 PM PDT by dowcaet
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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.


10 posted on 04/06/2015 1:16:57 PM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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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.


11 posted on 04/06/2015 1:18:38 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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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.


12 posted on 04/06/2015 1:19:53 PM PDT by alloysteel (It isn't science, it's law. Rational thought does not apply.)
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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?


13 posted on 04/06/2015 1:32:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Exactly!


14 posted on 04/06/2015 1:33:10 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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What difference does it make?


15 posted on 04/06/2015 1:34:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and th<uere is no one the<ire to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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RE: What difference does it make?

TAXES and DEBT for the state of California.


16 posted on 04/06/2015 1:35:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Let them do it on the cheap, force them to drink salt water.


17 posted on 04/06/2015 1:36:29 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe like Project : build it already Congress)
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There are more than 17,000 active desalination plants in 150 countries across the globe. The International Desalination Association estimates that approximately 21.1 billion gallons of water are desalinized each day to serve the needs of 300 million people, mostly in the Middle East.
18 posted on 04/06/2015 1:41:23 PM PDT by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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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.


19 posted on 04/06/2015 1:55:56 PM PDT by Cry if I Wanna
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“Long term” = after the train to nowhere is paid for.


20 posted on 04/06/2015 2:06:58 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse - vote 4 most conservative available)
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