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Invoking California's drought, oceanside town quickly builds long-desired desalination plant
startribune.com ^ | ELLEN KNICKMEYER

Posted on 01/03/2015 2:35:39 PM PST by BenLurkin

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To: LukeL

Don’t need a government reward - the market will amply reward anything that is useful enough that people will buy.


21 posted on 01/03/2015 4:19:54 PM PST by aquila48
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To: reg45

However it would be at such an insignificant level as not to have any true impact. The left just want those people to die, they could Not kill them at birth so they’ll take any means possible.


22 posted on 01/03/2015 4:22:46 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Well this pretty much guarantees that the drought ends this year


23 posted on 01/03/2015 4:50:30 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%i)
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To: GraceG

The Central Valley would love to keep that water and have adequate dams built. There isn’t much they can do about it with Democrats calling the shots.


24 posted on 01/03/2015 5:35:59 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: __rvx86
The brine could potentially be recycled into ordinary table Kosher, Carbon-neutral, GMO-free, Fair Trade, Free-Range, Sea salt... that they can sell to nitwit liberals.

Fixed it!

25 posted on 01/03/2015 6:30:47 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala
Internal stack overflow
System halted

26 posted on 01/03/2015 6:32:35 PM PST by __rvx86 (A non-trivial fear: Government by my peers. Double points if you can figure out when I was born.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Just run the output pipe a mile offshore or however far the edge of the shelf is there. The brine will sink to the bottom...


27 posted on 01/03/2015 6:35:18 PM PST by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: BenLurkin

And Taxes...


28 posted on 01/03/2015 6:36:04 PM PST by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: BenLurkin

The brine issue is something that can be mitigated. It is not a technological given that it necessarily has to become an environmental issue.

The other 16 plants on the drawing boards should be built toot sweet.

If and when the drought goes away, Californians must acknowledge it will be back, again, and again, and again. They should not close desalinization plants merely when the drought goes temporarily away. Instead, when the state is not dealing with drought conditions, the plants can continue to operate at less than Maximum capacity; continue to be well maintained; and help provide water to the state water storage systems when not needed for immediate consumption.


29 posted on 01/03/2015 6:45:01 PM PST by Wuli
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