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Drought is over (says local water authority)
"If my statement is a guess, then there wouldn't be a basis for it, would there be?" So it was a WAG instead of a SWAG? It's unlikely that the amount of energy required for desalination per unit-yield will decrease. I guess one could make the plants bigger by extending them inland. How much suitable land (not cliffs) exists along the CA coast? Of course, we could all be using solar stills, but the water has to come from someplace. The cumulative annual average evapotranspiration for San Diego is about five times greater than our average annual precipitation. As RR said, "There's no free lunch!"— February 7, 2017 9:05 p.m.
Drought is over (says local water authority)
" I would guess that future desalination plants will provide more and more water, just as solar panels have improved through the years. Best, Don Bauder" Kindly provide the basis for your guess.— February 7, 2017 3:19 p.m.
Drought is over (says local water authority)
I'm sure that as soon as it occurs to him, wee, wee Donny-boy will claim that rising tides can be offset by desalination plants. If by "escalate" you mean exponential, you are probably right. This is not a desert, it is a semi-arid, Mediterranean-type climate, while not unique, is one of the rarest climate types in the world.— February 7, 2017 3:16 p.m.
Drought is over (says local water authority)
Our Great God, TECHNOLOGY will BURY us. If it doesn't burn us first.— February 5, 2017 1:44 p.m.
It's a felony, but is it moral turpitude?
Nabokov's Humbert Humbert.— February 5, 2017 1:38 p.m.
Drought is over (says local water authority)
And SportsFan, did you really mean that California should be building desalination plants *off* the coast, or on the shore? Are you ready to pay $0.015 per gallon for the water to wash off your driveway? And once we have a desalination plant every 2-4 miles along our coast and have to raise rates enough to finance their continuous maintenance, modernization, and periodic replacement, what will the price be then? That, of course, after we have intercepted every drop of natural water at its source and no creeks and rivers will flow . . .— February 5, 2017 7:44 a.m.
Drought is over (says local water authority)
And oh, yeah, PRESENT *estimates* are that the cost (not the fees charged) of desalinated water are about eight times the cost to deliver water project water.— February 5, 2017 7:35 a.m.
Drought is over (says local water authority)
"Until California gets on the ball and builds 10-20 Desalinization plants off the coast, then it will never have enough water." --SportsFan A scientist at Lawrence-Livermore Laboratory says that just to provide California cities (as they now exist) with desalinated water, a plant would have to be built every four miles along the coast. Presumably additional ones would have to be built between those as the cities' populations increased over time.— February 5, 2017 7:32 a.m.
It's a felony, but is it moral turpitude?
Humbert?— February 4, 2017 7:27 p.m.
Feeling the sunshine tax squeeze
Euphemism for pain in the a$$.— February 2, 2017 10:53 p.m.