Posted on 08/18/2021 1:20:08 PM PDT by grundle
I would agree with you, but Generation IV reactors are designed to be “walk away” safe even if the coolant supply is cut off.
“it has significant energy and greenhouse gas impacts”
not if you tie new desalinization plants with new small safe efficient modular nuclear power also.
As far as “expense” goes California has to weigh the expense across the California economy of periodic droughts that produce unsustainable demands on water California neither has right now nor receives.
Aruba gets all their water needs from desalination. They claim to have the best water in the world.
Efficient desalination requires the stage wise heating of seawater under vacuum and huge amounts of brine return to the ocean. The heat should be generated by the burning of LNG produced in Texas.
Unless you Commufornians want to heat the seawater electrically (utterly foolish)
Get on your knees and ask Biden for approval of an LNG pipeline from Texas to CA over the continental divide. Take a peek at Jubail (Saudi) where a huge desalination plant is located. Expect Fresh water concrete pipelines of 6 feet diameter and more. But think of the many good jobs you will create in either state on a long-term basis.
The California Coastal Commission is a failed company full of failures who hate water, hate families and hate the Supreme Judge. Oh, and there is enough water in California for seven billion people.
Aruba gets all their water needs from desalination. They claim to have the best water in the world.
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California is not Aruba. When I worked in Saudi Arabia, the gasoline was about .20 a gallon ….the desalinated water bottles were about $ 2.00….
Efficient desalination requires the stage wise heating of seawater under vacuum and huge amounts of brine return to the ocean. The heat should be generated by the burning of LNG produced in Texas.
Unless you Commufornians want to heat the seawater electrically (utterly foolish)
Get on your knees and ask Biden for approval of an LNG pipeline from Texas to CA over the continental divide. Take a peek at Jubail (Saudi) where a huge desalination plant is located. Expect Fresh water concrete pipelines of 6 feet diameter and more. But think of the many good jobs you will create in either state on a long-term basis. Good jobs = taxes = return on investment.
“But environmentalists have concerns.”
Gee, what a surprise. Cut their water supply first.
Maybe thats the answer to the “rising seas” that they are talking about and how it going to kill everyone who lives around the coasts.
But they wont do it because it might kill some sort of algae or something.
Imagine letting the Colorado river flow into the Gulf of California again, and no longer importing water from North California to South California. Some who claim to love nature lack the vision to do so.
“It’s the most expensive option”.
No it’s not. Not by far. The most expensive options are the loss of life, and the loss of the economy, and the loss of community due to failure to allow people to obtain basic human necessities.
Death by red tape.
That is the hardest possible option of all. Complex operations are difficult to both start up AND shut down. Keeping them running at a constant level is far easier.
The Fukushima reactors survived the earthquake just fine. Their levee wasn't tall enough, so they ended up with water in the basement.
Someone can invent a method to convert atmospheric CO2 and raw sewage in to limitless free pure water and they would complain about it. And of course the loudest complaining about the “environmental impacts” live in huge houses on the beach on property that was razed and replanted with a massive lawn.
Think how easily California could fund de-salinization if they stopped funding illegals.
Absolutely, L.A is the main problem. They are 70 years late with now considering this.
There is a new one called diamond lake just south of hemit in riverside county 80,000 feet of water. Orange county has aquifer water.
Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
Oh, never mind. It is probably the habitat of the Striped Alwife Herring out in California or some crap like that.
How about producing ag water, not potable water?
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