Posted on 06/17/2015 11:27:11 AM PDT by SJackson
Taking the salt out of seawater helped Israel move from the constant threat of drought to a plentiful supply of water, but Israel has learned that desalination is not the only answer.
Ben-Gurion University's Institute for Water Research is deep in Israel's Negev desert and away from the sea. Prof. Jack Gilron, head of the Department of Desalination and Water Treatment, and other researchers here test concepts in desalination to see if they might hold promise for industrial development.
Israel has long sought solutions to the threat of drought. Commercial desalination began in the 1970s in the city of Eilat, on the Red Sea. The first desalination technology used there, in a short-lived pilot project, froze water to remove the salt, then melted it to make fresh water.
But Israel seriously embraced desalination in the late 1990s, after a particularly bad drought. The government decided to build five new plants along the Mediterranean, as fast as it could.
With four of those up and running and the fifth about to open, more than one-quarter of Israel's fresh water is now created through desalination.
An Israeli company is building a desalination plant near San Diego, to aid in California's historic drought.
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Needs boycotting.
What are they going to do with the salt?
Dumping it back in the ocean will probably result in arrests.
Wait til the accusations that the Jews are just doing this to extract the gold from the seawater.
This is just taking good money from our bullet train project.
Shelf it next to trans fats...
Too funny.
Socialists start with the train crap at an early age.
I remember my older brother pushing trains when he was only 10 years old. It’s a control thing, hearding people like cattle and confining them to a box.
Must be tough for NPR having to report on ‘jew-tech’.
Have you priced coarse Kosher salt lately?
the desal plant is being build in san diego county outside of carlsbad
Will the BDS leftists boycott water in California? (Please say “yes”)
“molten salt reactor”
Dingdingdingdingdingding!!!
THE WINNER!!!!
Yup, Thorium LFTR Plants every 250 miles just back away from the coast would do nicely. They’d have power and fresh water in the bargain. Even if all the water went to Ag use, it would free up water for residential.
California needs these plants a lot more than it needs a $68 billion dollar speed train to nowhere.
But which will it buy?
Better yet, kosher or not, it’s SEA salt. Very salable.
You KNOW that some enviroleftist will find something wrong with desalinating sea water for human use...
Why not take a look at the seawater desalination plant near Jubail, Saudi Arabia. There is an entire village built around the facilities just to support its large (Italian) staff. The plant has been on-stream since the late 1970’s Desalinated water is sent to Saudi interior through 6’ diameter concrete pipelines.
Also take a look at the Abu Dhabi facilities where the water is used to irrigate their golf courses in the middle of the desert. Seawater desalination is away of life in the M.E.
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