Their newest plant (Sorek) is producing 627,000 cubic meters of water daily. By 2016, when additional plants will be running, some 50 percent of the country’s water is expected to come from desalination. And check out the price: They're producing it for 58 U.S. cents per cubic meter (1,000 liters, or about what one person in Israel uses per week). It only cost $500 million, which came from private investment, and will be recouped in something like 5 years. California could have done that years ago. But no.
Instead, California authorized the issuance of US $9.95 billion in bonds for the High Speed Rail project which is never going to pay for itself. They could have built 18 major water-desalinization plants for that.
Geez, we should give California to Israel.
See post 12.
CA is going to force suffering (taxes/fees/cuts) upon their citizens until the USGov comes in to bail them out :(
A small amount of research, on a topic in which I’m not at all expert, seems to indicate about 3kwh per cubic meter to desalinate water.
That means roughly 2 megawatts of power to run the Sorek plant. Unless I’ve missed something, which is quite possible.
Thanks for that info!
“Geez, we should give California to Israel.”
Or better yet, have the Israelis run California....at least they know what they’re doing.
“Geez, we should give California to Israel.”
Too late - it’s already going to Mexico!