Hold The Salt
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Water and California...
https://mailchi.mp/calpolicycenter/whats-current-issue-7860071?e=75f5174b03
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First and foremost, it was refreshing to read an article without all the other website/ad crap. Thanks!
Secondly, desalinization plants (IMO) is really the ONLY answer to the looming water wars (well, scarcity crisis) that we're going to see more and more of in the future. Heck, it's one reason I moved to Minnesota... access to tons of fresh water SUCK IT CALIFORNIA!
As the article above points out... yes, build them modularly, reduce costs, and honestly if it uses 1% more in fossil fuel energy, so be it. The water is needed, badly.
This video (the 2nd half especially) is worth viewing. It discusses how the previous/current desalinization plants (there are 16,000 around the world today!) have issues, mostly with the "worthless" brine byproduct (after the salt is removed), but also the energy required to run the plant. But if we could get some large scale solar-desalinization plants going... think about not only the fresh water created, but also the usefulness of the byproducts, whether it's the magnesium for vitamins or the lithium for... electric vehicles!
Not to make all things Trump, but man I would love it if he waved a magic
Link to videowandautopen and forced the creation of massive solar desalinization plants. Fresh water, electric vehicle battery raw materials.... win-win. -
I also think that mostly desalination plants are a good idea.
But, like anything, there are always consequences. I have hear that the increased salt amount in the returned water has a pretty negative effect on a large amount of the ocean near the plant.
