Water!

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[quote=creechrr][quote=donaldduckmoore]We need water but we have plenty of sun. Why can’t we build more desalinization plants using solar energy? We are surrounded by water why can’t we make good use of it. It seems the way to go.
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I thought the same thing.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5155
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The oil drum is an excellent, excellent blog for all issues energy.

[donaldduckmoore]

Looks like the project has been given a go-ahead and the plant should start operating in 2011. The proposal has been submitted since 1998 and it took 11 years to pass the legislature. Unbelivable.

http://www.carlsbad-desal.com/news.aspx?id=212

In the meantime, I am going to direct my washing machine waste water to the backyard for irrigation.

I disagree with the article “Energy Down the Drain” from theoildrum.com. We know that we need lots of energy to turn salt water to drinking water, but solar energy is highly sustainable. The author tends to assume that crude oil is the only energy source. Environmentally, we need more space to install enough solar panels to create sufficient energy to do the job if we use solar. One major concern about desalination plant is how it dump the salt waste.

[donaldduckmoore]

Looks like the project has been given a go-ahead and the plant should start operating in 2011. The proposal has been submitted since 1998 and it took 11 years to pass the legislature. Unbelivable.

http://www.carlsbad-desal.com/news.aspx?id=212

In the meantime, I am going to direct my washing machine waste water to the backyard for irrigation.

I disagree with the article “Energy Down the Drain” from theoildrum.com. We know that we need lots of energy to turn salt water to drinking water, but solar energy is highly sustainable. The author tends to assume that crude oil is the only energy source. Environmentally, we need more space to install enough solar panels to create sufficient energy to do the job if we use solar. One major concern about desalination plant is how it dump the salt waste.

[donaldduckmoore]

Looks like the project has been given a go-ahead and the plant should start operating in 2011. The proposal has been submitted since 1998 and it took 11 years to pass the legislature. Unbelivable.

http://www.carlsbad-desal.com/news.aspx?id=212

In the meantime, I am going to direct my washing machine waste water to the backyard for irrigation.

I disagree with the article “Energy Down the Drain” from theoildrum.com. We know that we need lots of energy to turn salt water to drinking water, but solar energy is highly sustainable. The author tends to assume that crude oil is the only energy source. Environmentally, we need more space to install enough solar panels to create sufficient energy to do the job if we use solar. One major concern about desalination plant is how it dump the salt waste.

[donaldduckmoore]

Looks like the project has been given a go-ahead and the plant should start operating in 2011. The proposal has been submitted since 1998 and it took 11 years to pass the legislature. Unbelivable.

http://www.carlsbad-desal.com/news.aspx?id=212

In the meantime, I am going to direct my washing machine waste water to the backyard for irrigation.

I disagree with the article “Energy Down the Drain” from theoildrum.com. We know that we need lots of energy to turn salt water to drinking water, but solar energy is highly sustainable. The author tends to assume that crude oil is the only energy source. Environmentally, we need more space to install enough solar panels to create sufficient energy to do the job if we use solar. One major concern about desalination plant is how it dump the salt waste.

[donaldduckmoore]

Looks like the project has been given a go-ahead and the plant should start operating in 2011. The proposal has been submitted since 1998 and it took 11 years to pass the legislature. Unbelivable.

http://www.carlsbad-desal.com/news.aspx?id=212

In the meantime, I am going to direct my washing machine waste water to the backyard for irrigation.

I disagree with the article “Energy Down the Drain” from theoildrum.com. We know that we need lots of energy to turn salt water to drinking water, but solar energy is highly sustainable. The author tends to assume that crude oil is the only energy source. Environmentally, we need more space to install enough solar panels to create sufficient energy to do the job if we use solar. One major concern about desalination plant is how it dump the salt waste.

[Rt.66]

Very High Temperature nuke reactors (VHTR) are perfect for combo electical generation/desalination, as heat is the main requirement for desal. Cheap clean electricity and fresh water.

As I recall there is a San Diego company who can build VHTRs.

Millions of acres of Colorado river farm land are already fallowed each year to provide drinking water to SoCal. It does not look like its going to improve anytime soon, so why no nuke desalanation plants in Obamas stimulus? That seems like a good way to put people to work and future generations get more than just a tax bill;
they get cheap electricity, jobs and fresh water?

[Rt.66]

Very High Temperature nuke reactors (VHTR) are perfect for combo electical generation/desalination, as heat is the main requirement for desal. Cheap clean electricity and fresh water.

As I recall there is a San Diego company who can build VHTRs.

Millions of acres of Colorado river farm land are already fallowed each year to provide drinking water to SoCal. It does not look like its going to improve anytime soon, so why no nuke desalanation plants in Obamas stimulus? That seems like a good way to put people to work and future generations get more than just a tax bill;
they get cheap electricity, jobs and fresh water?

[Rt.66]

Very High Temperature nuke reactors (VHTR) are perfect for combo electical generation/desalination, as heat is the main requirement for desal. Cheap clean electricity and fresh water.

As I recall there is a San Diego company who can build VHTRs.

Millions of acres of Colorado river farm land are already fallowed each year to provide drinking water to SoCal. It does not look like its going to improve anytime soon, so why no nuke desalanation plants in Obamas stimulus? That seems like a good way to put people to work and future generations get more than just a tax bill;
they get cheap electricity, jobs and fresh water?

[Rt.66]

Very High Temperature nuke reactors (VHTR) are perfect for combo electical generation/desalination, as heat is the main requirement for desal. Cheap clean electricity and fresh water.

As I recall there is a San Diego company who can build VHTRs.

Millions of acres of Colorado river farm land are already fallowed each year to provide drinking water to SoCal. It does not look like its going to improve anytime soon, so why no nuke desalanation plants in Obamas stimulus? That seems like a good way to put people to work and future generations get more than just a tax bill;
they get cheap electricity, jobs and fresh water?

[Rt.66]

Very High Temperature nuke reactors (VHTR) are perfect for combo electical generation/desalination, as heat is the main requirement for desal. Cheap clean electricity and fresh water.

As I recall there is a San Diego company who can build VHTRs.

Millions of acres of Colorado river farm land are already fallowed each year to provide drinking water to SoCal. It does not look like its going to improve anytime soon, so why no nuke desalanation plants in Obamas stimulus? That seems like a good way to put people to work and future generations get more than just a tax bill;
they get cheap electricity, jobs and fresh water?

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