“They are spending millions of dollars in putting solar panels on hundreds of acres of usable land, instead of using the same panels to desalinate water. Fine use nuclear or solar panels or wind, really doesn’t matter. Israel seems to be doing just fine in using whatever they need to use to desalinate water, and they seem to be winning.”
I guess you don’t understand the energy needs for desalinization, or the relative populations of Israel and California (8 million vs. 40 million). The RATS and the environmentalists have their heads up their a$$es. And so your notion that we could “power” desal plants with solar is a fools mission. One of our “solar” power plants covers 5,000 acres and produces less energy than a fossil fueled plant that covers less than 40 acres. There isn’t enough land available to make solar power, with today’s technology, economical. Yeah, you can bootstrap your home energy needs with solar panels, but they can’t supply enough energy to run anything more than a few lights. Plus they get dirty and need to be washed periodically and over their lifetime, they lose a significant percentage of their ability to produce electricity. I am not saying that solar doesn’t have a place, but rather that for our industrial requirements, they just don’t have the capacity to meet our needs. Nuclear generated electricity is produced at a tenth the cost of fossil fueled facilities. We have blown it with all this nonsense that these plants are bombs!
Apparently you didn’t get the gist of what I was saying. Had they put that money that they have and are spending on “SPEED TRAINS TO NO WHERE” that money could have been spent on desalinating. Who knows how far they could have gone, and besides that the people of California wouldn’t be on the hook for all those “SPEED TRAINS TO NO WHERE”. What would rather have, living in California, a desalinating plant or a “SPEED TRAIN TO NO WHERE”?