Posted on 06/17/2015 11:27:11 AM PDT by SJackson
Taking the salt out of seawater helped Israel move from the constant threat of drought to a plentiful supply of water, but Israel has learned that desalination is not the only answer.
Ben-Gurion University's Institute for Water Research is deep in Israel's Negev desert and away from the sea. Prof. Jack Gilron, head of the Department of Desalination and Water Treatment, and other researchers here test concepts in desalination to see if they might hold promise for industrial development.
Israel has long sought solutions to the threat of drought. Commercial desalination began in the 1970s in the city of Eilat, on the Red Sea. The first desalination technology used there, in a short-lived pilot project, froze water to remove the salt, then melted it to make fresh water.
But Israel seriously embraced desalination in the late 1990s, after a particularly bad drought. The government decided to build five new plants along the Mediterranean, as fast as it could.
With four of those up and running and the fifth about to open, more than one-quarter of Israel's fresh water is now created through desalination.
An Israeli company is building a desalination plant near San Diego, to aid in California's historic drought.
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The concentrated brine from the flash evaporators gets dumped back into the sea thereby raising water salinity in the dumping area. No big deal.
Of course liberal California may reject that idea. Then let them drink seawater.
“It’s a control thing, hearding people like cattle and confining them to a box.”
In that one sentence you have distilled the core of Leftist thinking. Well said!
I thought all the Commie Jew haters in Cali divested themselves of all things Israel?
Carlsbad opening 2016.
It took 12 years to turn the shovel Environmentalists fought every step. City permit, coastal commission, and don’t know what else. Then when perm it awarded the same groups which oat at hearings, took jot to court for 2 years. Public policy paralysis.
Best post of the day!
LOL!
You may not be aware that some years ago (in the 80s IIRC) an entrepreneur attempted to set up a hatchery for - I think - sea cucumbers, or abalone, or some sea creature that had become a delicacy in San Francisco and surrounding hoity-toity regions.
He set up some big tanks on land, arranged pumping apparatus to convey seawater through pipes from the ocean up to his tanks, with other pipes so arranged as to convey water from the tanks back to the ocean. In this way, he attempted to create in big plastic vessels the selfsame environment the aforementioned critters had become used to in their millions of years of patient evolution in the ocean deeps.
Soon after he stocked his tanks with sea cucumbers, he was cited by several government agencies including the federal Environmental Protection Agency and instructed to cease operation immediately. The reason given was this: the discharge water from his tanks was polluting the seven seas, even though the only conceivable source of any pollution was the sea cucumbers themselves.
He tried to explain this, but to no avail. Bye bye hatchery, jobs, and economic activity from the California Land of Opportunity.
i believe they bribed the calif coastal commission for permission to build
Large scale desalination is done by flash vaporization which requires heat from burning natural gas or any waste heat from another process.
NOWHERE is where CA is wanting and destined to go.
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