The stupid idiots have all the water than need along their coastline. You could put a large desalination plant every 50 miles or so and produce 4,224,000,000 (4.224 billion) gallons of drinking water a day. With the added bonus of producing 41,600 megawatts of electricity, 100s of thousand of jobs building and staffing plants, etc...
Fortunately, California, as a result of its agricultural and technological wealth, has saved up a large budget surplus, and furthermore hasn't committed any of its hoards of cash on multi-billion-dollar boondoggles, such as the disastrous light rail projects that have mired other states. And it has a sensible energy policy which will make construction of the nukes a snap. So it's in a great position to deal with the present drought crisis. I wish all the states had the foresight and sage leadership that California has, such as the remarkable way it has dealt with this utterly unforeseen and unforeseeable drought. Why, Mono Lake was filled to the brim just what, four years ago?
“The stupid idiots have all the water than need along their coastline. You could put a large desalination plant every 50 miles or so and produce 4,224,000,000 (4.224 billion) gallons of drinking water a day. With the added bonus of producing 41,600 megawatts of electricity, 100s of thousand of jobs building and staffing plants, etc...”
Yes, but to do that, you would need a number of nuclear power plants. Desal is all about cheap energy. Don’t know where you get the idea that Desal plants also PRODUCE electricity.
Carlsbad will open a desalt plant in 2016, now under construction.
As far as i know it’s the only one underway in the west.
It took 12 years to turn the shovel. They had to fight the environmentalists every step of the way through all the hearings and approvals. After the final approval (about 10 years) the same environmentalists were allowed to bring a court case making the same arguments that they made in the administrative hearings.