Ukraine Funding Could Have Paid for Dozens of State of Art, Huge Water Desalinization Plants

[munkle]

Does anyone live near one of these and taken a tour? Is it cool?

Water is now the problem, very serious considering you need it to grow food. It shouldn't be looked at as the sole solution, but part of a mix of conservation and management. It cost about twice per gallon than what we do now, and uses energy, but that is where technology is evolving.

Desalination Is Booming as Cities Run out of Water

In California alone there are 11 desalination plants, with 10 more proposed. But there are big downsides to making seawater drinkable.

www.wired.com

"..desalination is coming into play in many places around the world. Several factors are converging to bring new plants on line. Population has boomed in many water-stressed places, including parts of China, India, South Africa, and the United States, especially in Arizona and California. In addition, drought—some of it driven by a changing climate—is occurring in many regions that not that long ago thought their supplies were ample.

San Diego is one of those places. With just 12 inches of rain a year in the Mediterranean climate of Southern California and no groundwater, the region gets half of its water from the distant Colorado River. The amount of snow that falls in the Rocky Mountains and keeps that mighty river flowing, however, has greatly diminished over the last two decades, and according to some researchers may be part of a permanent aridification of the West. Climate change is a very real phenomenon for water managers throughout the Southwest and elsewhere."

 

[TheGreatSatan]

I knew it was all a ploy when Pedo peter denied Ukraine the migs.

 

[toobfreak]

Ukraine Funding Could Have Paid for Dozens of State of Art, Huge Water Desalinization Plants​

Water is now the problem, very serious considering you need it to grow food.

Joe and his handlers have a plan. Rather than boost infrastructure to meet needs, they intend to cull millions of us deplorable semi-fascist insurrectionists down until the US population is small enough to match our available water, energy and food supplies now just so long as he keeps to his handler's dangerously radical green carbon-free climate agenda.

But don't worry, he and his buddies will have all the water they need!

 

[1srelluc]

And the libtards bitch about people hiding their money from the .gov.....Small damn wonder what with them pissing it away on corrupt Little Russia.

 

[excalibur]

They'll never build another one in the Tarnished State, aka California. It is just another thing leftoid loonies are against.

California regulator rejects desalination plant despite historic drought

California regulators on Thursday rejected a $1.4 billion desalination plant on environmental grounds, dealing a setback to Governor Gavin Newsom, who had supported the project as a partial solution for the state's sustained drought.

www.reuters.com

 

[Rigby5]

Desalinization is not viable.
It not only is expensive equipment, but constantly uses huge amounts of energy, and is far more harmful to the environment than any other solution.
Very few places in the world do it, and it should not be done.
Better if people just moved to where the water is already.

 

[munkle]

It not only is expensive equipment, but constantly uses huge amounts of energy, and is far more harmful to the environment than any other solution.
Very few places in the world do it, and it should not be done.
Better if people just moved to where the water is already.

"The first large-scale desal plants were built in the 1960s, and there are now some 20,000 facilities globally that turn sea water into fresh." Desalination Is Booming as Cities Run out of Water

 

[Concerned American]

Does anyone live near one of these and taken a tour? Is it cool?

Water is now the problem, very serious considering you need it to grow food. It shouldn't be looked at as the sole solution, but part of a mix of conservation and management. It cost about twice per gallon than what we do now, and uses energy, but that is where technology is evolving.

Desalination Is Booming as Cities Run out of Water

In California alone there are 11 desalination plants, with 10 more proposed. But there are big downsides to making seawater drinkable.

www.wired.com

"..desalination is coming into play in many places around the world. Several factors are converging to bring new plants on line. Population has boomed in many water-stressed places, including parts of China, India, South Africa, and the United States, especially in Arizona and California. In addition, drought—some of it driven by a changing climate—is occurring in many regions that not that long ago thought their supplies were ample.

San Diego is one of those places. With just 12 inches of rain a year in the Mediterranean climate of Southern California and no groundwater, the region gets half of its water from the distant Colorado River. The amount of snow that falls in the Rocky Mountains and keeps that mighty river flowing, however, has greatly diminished over the last two decades, and according to some researchers may be part of a permanent aridification of the West. Climate change is a very real phenomenon for water managers throughout the Southwest and elsewhere."

SoCal is draining the west. The Colorado R, the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta and they have been talking for years about raiding the Columbia. LA has already drained the Owens Valley of CA. Those people don't live in a natural watershed. Let them pay the cost of desalinating their own water. Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar do it, why shouldn't SoCal.

 

[Rigby5]

"The first large-scale desal plants were built in the 1960s, and there are now some 20,000 facilities globally that turn sea water into fresh." Desalination Is Booming as Cities Run out of Water

Desalinization is only done by people who are so wealthy they do not care it would be cheaper to just import bottled water.
The membranes need constant replacement, brine has to be carted off and disposed of, and it uses vast quantities of electricity.

Makes no sense.
Instead of making drinking water from the ocean, it makes more sense to just move the people where there already is plenty of fresh water.

 

[skye]

Pedo Biden cares more about Ukraine than America.

Billions and billions for that country across the world! Zero to Americans!

POS!

 

[Rigby5]

SoCal is draining the west. The Colorado R, the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta and they have been talking for years about raiding the Columbia. LA has already drained the Owens Valley of CA. Those people don't live in a natural watershed. Let them pay the cost of desalinating their own water. Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar do it, why shouldn't SoCal.

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar do it because they have essentially more oil than water.
Desalinization uses huge amounts of electricity, which means oil is needed to produce the electricity for it.
Californian does not have the oil for the electricity it needs.
Already California buys half of the electricity it needs from out of state.
California can not possibly afford to buy the electricity it would need to run desalinization plants on any scale.

 

[munkle]

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar do it because they have essentially more oil than water.
Desalinization uses huge amounts of electricity, which means oil is needed to produce the electricity for it.
Californian does not have the oil for the electricity it needs.
Already California buys half of the electricity it needs from out of state.
California can not possibly afford to buy the electricity it would need to run desalinization plants on any scale.

I would like to see the technology develop in the direction of using the sun for evaporation-distillation, which would simply take vast tracts of land. But if there is one thing out west, it is vast tracks of land. Nellis AFB alone, where the F-16s do target practice, is bigger than most Eastern states.

Put out a reward, and some 13 year old genius kid from India will figure out what all the professors didn't. Capitalism works!

 

[cnm]

Ukraine Funding Could Have Paid for Dozens of State of Art, Huge Water Desalinization Plants​

The climate effects of the power required would contribute to even greater drought conditions. Woo hoo.

 

[surada]

Does anyone live near one of these and taken a tour? Is it cool?

Water is now the problem, very serious considering you need it to grow food. It shouldn't be looked at as the sole solution, but part of a mix of conservation and management. It cost about twice per gallon than what we do now, and uses energy, but that is where technology is evolving.

Desalination Is Booming as Cities Run out of Water

In California alone there are 11 desalination plants, with 10 more proposed. But there are big downsides to making seawater drinkable.

www.wired.com

"..desalination is coming into play in many places around the world. Several factors are converging to bring new plants on line. Population has boomed in many water-stressed places, including parts of China, India, South Africa, and the United States, especially in Arizona and California. In addition, drought—some of it driven by a changing climate—is occurring in many regions that not that long ago thought their supplies were ample.

San Diego is one of those places. With just 12 inches of rain a year in the Mediterranean climate of Southern California and no groundwater, the region gets half of its water from the distant Colorado River. The amount of snow that falls in the Rocky Mountains and keeps that mighty river flowing, however, has greatly diminished over the last two decades, and according to some researchers may be part of a permanent aridification of the West. Climate change is a very real phenomenon for water managers throughout the Southwest and elsewhere."

California farmers can also use better irrigation methods.

 

[Rigby5]

I would like to see the technology develop in the direction of using the sun for evaporation-distillation, which would simply take vast tracts of land. But if there is one thing out west, it is vast tracks of land. Nellis AFB alone, where the F-16s do target practice, is bigger than most Eastern states.

Put out a reward, and some 13 year old genius kid from India will figure out what all the professors didn't. Capitalism works!

While semi permeable membranes and lots of electricity is currently used to desalinate, evaporation distilleries could work, but you still need energy to create the cold to condense the vapor back into liquid water again.

 

[Rigby5]

California farmers can also use better irrigation methods.

Mexico sold CA because they considered it a useless desert.
Mexico likely was right.
Almost no one should live there.

 

[the other mike]

Does anyone live near one of these and taken a tour? Is it cool?

Water is now the problem, very serious considering you need it to grow food. It shouldn't be looked at as the sole solution, but part of a mix of conservation and management. It cost about twice per gallon than what we do now, and uses energy, but that is where technology is evolving.

Desalination Is Booming as Cities Run out of Water

In California alone there are 11 desalination plants, with 10 more proposed. But there are big downsides to making seawater drinkable.

www.wired.com

"..desalination is coming into play in many places around the world. Several factors are converging to bring new plants on line. Population has boomed in many water-stressed places, including parts of China, India, South Africa, and the United States, especially in Arizona and California. In addition, drought—some of it driven by a changing climate—is occurring in many regions that not that long ago thought their supplies were ample.

San Diego is one of those places. With just 12 inches of rain a year in the Mediterranean climate of Southern California and no groundwater, the region gets half of its water from the distant Colorado River. The amount of snow that falls in the Rocky Mountains and keeps that mighty river flowing, however, has greatly diminished over the last two decades, and according to some researchers may be part of a permanent aridification of the West. Climate change is a very real phenomenon for water managers throughout the Southwest and elsewhere."

Currently they use a lot of energy to operate but we do need them and we need we need to do the R&D to make them more efficient as we go along. The SW states will have no choice soon.

 

[surada]

Currently they use a lot of energy to operate but we do need them and we need we need to do the R&D to make them more efficient as we go along. The SW states will have no choice soon.

Nuclear desalination produces lots of cheap electricity as a byproduct.

 

[surada]

Desalinization is only done by people who are so wealthy they do not care it would be cheaper to just import bottled water.
The membranes need constant replacement, brine has to be carted off and disposed of, and it uses vast quantities of electricity.

Makes no sense.
Instead of making drinking water from the ocean, it makes more sense to just move the people where there already is plenty of fresh water.

Reverse osmosis doesn't get rid of heavy metals and ecoli..

 

[Concerned American]

California farmers can also use better irrigation methods.

Most CA farmers live and farm in the natural watershed. LA and SoCal do not have a natural watershed so they steal the water from the farmers instead of desalinating.