Posted on 08/02/2014 9:28:49 AM PDT by grundle
Unfortunately, for the people in California, these plants use ELECTRICITY, so they are NON-STARTERS.
...but then these SAME PEOPLE voted for the SAME PEOPLE that will not allow them to have electricity.
So it’s hard to feel sorry for them.
As soon as I read “global warming” I stopped reading the article and skipped down to the comments.
“Desalinization isn’t cheap and it is energy intensive. And you need to build the infrastructure to distribute the water. The taxpayer/consumer will face a larger bite in an already overtaxed state. And I wonder how agriculture will deal with the increased costs of doing business.”
If they just let water be owned privately and let the market bid the price, this would all take care of itself in about 10-15 years. Agriculture and businesses would adapt to more expensive water; homeowners would too. Conservation would skyrocket and new ways of producing and transporting water to people willing to pay would emerge.
Everywhere I go I see people drinking water from plastic bottles at a cost of what, $5 a gallon or higher? Drinking $6 coffees from Starbucks. We’ve got enough money for desalinization plants and then some.
Do the rat controlled state of CA want water to drink or do they want
to protect the green eyed grasshopper?.
My guess is that they will choose water.
They haven’t figured that out yet? With all their sun, and proximity to the ocean, they should be turning seawater into drinking water.
i don’t know why the desal plant is Santa Barbara is taken out of moth balls and fired up
It’s the envirowhackos that are to blame.
Indeed. And if there was wise opposition that opposition would be claiming that unbridled immigration is a threat to the environment and we’d be pushing the whackos to start lawsuits to block it.
Where does the money come from? Are those people with the plastic bottles of water going to stop drinking bottled water? Water is a necessity. The government will control it and dictate how it is used. It will only be a matter of time before we have the water police.
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