Fresh water for California
Desalination plant to provide water supply to California
In the news today and for the last few day’s it would seem that everyone reporting about this is hung up on, $1 billion on less than 10% of the water supply needed in Southern California?
Plant to produce 50 million gallons of drinking water a day, California is desperate for water so they are cutting a pipeline directly from the surfing waves to a desalination plant to remove the salt.
Yes, if you stop this story at this point, the plant sounds like another giant waste of money?
However, the people reporting this are from areas of the country now facing flood water, care to read the rest of the story?
Guess what else is in Southern California?
San Joaquin Valley in San Diego California.
So, what you might be saying.
Well, San Joaquin Valley San Diego California is the country if not the world’s largest producer of fresh vegetables and it is hurting for fresh water.
Can one truly put a price tag on drinking water, let alone water for our food?
Nation’s largest desalination plant looking to provide drought-proof water supply to Southern California
I have an idea,
Surprise, Surprise.
What is it that California always has a lot of, ‘besides many intelligent people,’ after all San Diego California was also the first to build a great Waste to Energy Plant?
http://www.sachem-uncas.com/energy.html
Winds, Waves and the Sun!
This means alternative energy for power.
http://www.sachem-uncas.com/alternativesources.html
Something must pump or pull the saltwater to and/or from the desalination plant, why not use as much, if not all of the power from alternative energy?
By doing this the fishing will also improve, more food for everyone.
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You are so right, Sachem.
I grew up in San Diego, and the first desalinization plant was run by my friend, Walter Mulford,’s father. We took field trips there and I always thought it was brilliant.
San Diego has Imperial Valley, and the San Joaquin Valley is just over the mountains from the Santa Clarita Valley, where I live.
All anyone has to do is drive up Highway 99 to see the vast agricultural area that the San Joaquin Valley. If they could pipe clean, desalinized water from the coastline, we wouldn’t have a drought any more.
There is plenty of sunshine and wind, especially in March and October, when the Santa Ana winds blow, to power the plants and solve our problems. It just takes a little imagination.
Why can’t they see what we see?
Brilliant!
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Because scientist are so brilliant that many time they cannot see the forest through the trees!
Also politicians and companies selling dinosaur power through the antiquated power grid know that they will lose billions of dollars if electricity is nothing or next to nothing?
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