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Agency unanimously rejects California desalination project
AP (on their own site) ^ | 05-13-2022 | AMY TAXIN

Posted on 05/14/2022 8:07:54 AM PDT by Salman

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To: keving

Are you referring to the one that was in Long Beach?


61 posted on 05/14/2022 9:23:40 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
But the by products they are concerned with, are the salt and brine and other substances which were in the sea water in the first place.

Just like they call CO2, the natural product of plant, animal and human respiration a pollutant. MORONS!

62 posted on 05/14/2022 9:25:49 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: cuban leaf

They think the discharge back into the ocean will raise the salinity of the ocean in the area (which I guess it will) and kill off the microorganisms at the bottom of the local food chain. But I’m sure there’s ways to regulate the discharge to keep the salinity within a tolerable level in the immediate area of the plant.

But, hey, for environazis, plankton > people every time.

}:-)4


63 posted on 05/14/2022 9:26:37 AM PDT by Moose4 (Oderint dum metuant. Let them hate, as long as they fear.)
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To: plain talk

So, don’t pump the brine back. Dry the discharge completely, harvest and market the sea salt.


64 posted on 05/14/2022 9:28:51 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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65 posted on 05/14/2022 9:35:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Salman

Let them drink sand.


66 posted on 05/14/2022 9:39:12 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: Dilbert San Diego

But the by products they are concerned with, are the salt and brine and other substances which were in the sea water in the first place.

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Isn’t there a market for sea salt? I see it in grocery stores, plus millions of tons of salt used on our country’s roads. Salt used on roads doesn’t have to be particularly clean either.


67 posted on 05/14/2022 9:41:09 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Moose4

Yep. Heck, I have to ask though, what if they dumped it on dry land. What would that “dump” look like, and would there be anything salvageable in it?

The article I posted discusses the fact that there is a LOT of stuff besides water in sea water. I can’t imagine that a lot (if not all) of it might be salvageable, and even profitable to do so.


68 posted on 05/14/2022 9:41:37 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: Salman

They don’t deserve any water because they chose to be ruled by retards 🤪

Let them wither


69 posted on 05/14/2022 9:42:23 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: LastDayz

“Not even a hint of scoping out what the Israelis do with their desalinization plants.”

Yep.... they got it down pat.


Your assumption is that they actually want to solve the problem. I am not so sure; if fact, I doubt it. They want a feudal California. A few rich and lots of poor to serve them; no real middle class.


70 posted on 05/14/2022 9:43:05 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: JimRed
So, don’t pump the brine back. Dry the discharge completely, harvest and market the sea salt.

That makes sense. Hence, it will never fly out here.

71 posted on 05/14/2022 9:46:18 AM PDT by Yossarian
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To: Salman

I guess no one told them the added salt counter acts the polar ice melt lowering the salination. /sarc


72 posted on 05/14/2022 9:48:40 AM PDT by DYngbld (I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!! (this post approved by the NSA))
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To: Salman

Refused an opportunity to help themselves. I don’t get it.


73 posted on 05/14/2022 9:58:58 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“ I heard part of the justification, is that desalination returns the by products back to the ocean, and pollutes the ocean.”

Just like evaporation which is how we get rain.


74 posted on 05/14/2022 10:29:57 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ridesthemiles

A simple dilution process would negate this entire issue.

STUPID IDIOTS.


75 posted on 05/14/2022 11:06:30 AM PDT by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: Salman
It's a drop in the ocean compared to the natural desalination/salination caused by evaporation and rain.
Just dilute the saltwater with seawater until the salinity is at an acceptable level and release it miles from the coast.
But of course nothing will be acceptable to leftist environmentalists who can not distinguish between big and small problems.

76 posted on 05/14/2022 11:26:07 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Salman

These idiots should be the first to have their water ration cut off.

Israel has done amazing things with desalinization. They have a water surplus now and have turned a desert green. The biggest problem seems to be pumping it uphill from the coast. After that it is all downhill.


77 posted on 05/14/2022 11:32:40 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego; All
"Their view is that we are adding pollutants to the ocean, by returning substances back to the ocean which were there originally."

Doesn't sunlight naturally evaporate water from ocean, the evaporated water forming clouds which then rain over land? Practically no difference between natural water cycles and desalination?

Corrections, insights welcome.

78 posted on 05/14/2022 11:33:52 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Salman

Inside the world’s biggest water desalination plants in Saudi Arabia
Desalination is expensive and energy-intensive, but in hot, water -scarce climates like Saudi Arabia - with a population of 34 million - and neighboring Gulf countries, it is relied upon. Last week SWCC said it had completed construction of seven new desalination plants, taking its total number of installations to 33.

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Full Article at The Economic Times News (English Edition)
October 13, 2020


79 posted on 05/14/2022 1:15:52 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: plain talk

drawing in large amounts of ocean water
= = =

Well, “Evaporation” draws in large amounts of ocean water, and it leaves the salt behind.

Stop Evaporation Now!

And wouldn’t raising global temps make evaporation greater?


80 posted on 05/14/2022 7:05:49 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance)gg g)
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