Posted on 07/23/2022 7:55:29 PM PDT by bitt
Yeah, what would the ocean do with salt? Horrors.
>>The desalinization nowadays rely on pressuring water through some special membranes, which let H2O through, but NaCl not.<<
It is called reverse osmosis
We’ve got four months to convert the nation to solar, if true, if possible.
Maybe Joe Biden can flap his arms fast enough to fly west.
The only somewhat successful and perhaps morally questionable weather control I am aware of takes place in the Sierras of CA/NV each winter.
Cloud seeding stations are permanent fixtures. See “DRI” of Reno.
They increase rain/snow locally (Got to keep the Skiers happy!) which also reduces snow/rain further east.
I seem to recall Utah objecting to this scheme?
More precipitation further east would add water to The Great Salt Lake and Colorado head waters.
There probably are similar operations in other areas and countries.
“The researchers estimate that the cell would need only $5 of electricity to extract 1 kilogram of lithium from seawater, and the value of hydrogen and chlorine produced by the cell would more than offset the cost. Further, residual seawater could be used in desalination plants to provide freshwater.”
Dear Residential Household Water Customer:
If you use more than the average such customer, your service will be terminated. Beg a few gallons a day from neighbors afterwards.
Leftist Water & Power
[More scam for more fools.
Some people have to believe everything is caused by some conspiracy or another.
They substitute man for God at their peril. ]
Martin Armstrong is a crank and a convicted felon from his days as a Ponzi scheme operator. I have nothing against him personally, but he tends to surf the web for whatever ideological currents seem to have a good number of adherents and latch on to those currents to get people to buy his wares:
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/shop/
I wouldn’t exactly call this fraud, but it’s a lot like the medieval Church peddling indulgences to the faithful in exchange for cash.
Prior to 1810 most of America west of the Mississippi was listed on maps as “the great American desert”. The fact is huge areas were made livable only with irrigation projects. Irrigation projects today however modest are now verboten due to the extreme position of envioromentalists who have power. It is no suprise that huge areas involving millions of people are becoming inhabitable.
Time to build nuclear powered desalinization plants in LA and SF, or the go thirsty in the dark.
“They increase rain/snow locally (Got to keep the Skiers happy!) which also reduces snow/rain further east.”
Rain and snow in the high country is how the west gets its water. Win-win.
That is exactly the reason. You have to be careful, or you get the salt concentration so high the membranes won’t work and a dead zone is created by the outlet.
I heard that the delta smelt, in the California Delta region east of San Francisco.....is an invasive specie, coming to California in the bilge water of ships from Asia.
And yet several years ago, the powers that be pumped enough fresh water into the California Delta region which could have supplied the needs of four million California homes.
All for an invasive species, which is not indigenous to California and should have been allowed to go extinct in that region.
SOME of the west.
This scheme cheats areas further east.
I’ve been trying to get my wife to agree on selling our Arizona winter home, but she won’t listen to me. In a year or two we’ll just have to walk away from it instead of doubling our money on it.
The ocean is so vast and massive that its size is not readily comprehensible to the human mind. A piddling amount of salt from a water plant is no more than a spit into the ocean.
The sky is falling!
The sky is falling!
The sky is falling!
Another pseudo-scientific prediction...
Someone save us...
Maybe the communist climatologist greenies will save us?
Will the chains-of tyranny around our shoulders get over-heated and kill us?
Boom!
I will move back to Minnesota and the land of at least 10,000 lakes.
For smaller size desalination, reverse osmosis is often a good technology. When the application gets more technically difficult or larger in size, multieffect evaporation is probably a better choice. There's no one size fits all or you hit the round peg, square hole wall.
At this same time 10 years ago, the Israeli company with their really good technology was in advanced business discussions and had performed the preliminary engineering to scope and cost a west coast project in California. Huge system. Very sweet system. Damn good system. Environmental and democrat political powers that be scuttled the project. I have thought how cool it would have been if they had taken all that work product south to Mexico and made northern Baja bloom.
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