Desalination for California.

[JR4PSU]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/t...newsntp&cvid=0707081ae4ff441097c70c832332aa0f

One issue is the destruction of marine life from the intake of sea water for desalination. Even with the use of 1 millimeter screens, the smallest there is, you would still suck in plankton. So, you would still destroy some marine live and larvae.

Should we be concerned about destroying larvae and plankton?

 

[Aardvark86]

Plankton has less to worry about than we do...

 

[DJ Spanky]

Okay, setting aside the issues revolving around the effect on marine life and the disposal of the resulting brine, let's look at one huge issue that that article really doesn't address.

Where is the energy gonna come from to run these plants? And we're talking a huge amount of energy. California already has an energy crisis that is growing worse. And that doesn't even take into account the mandate to go all electric for vehicular transit in the next decade or so. So you'll have all these demands for energy, where's it gonna come from? Renewables? BwaHawHawHaw!!! Nuclear? Nope, we're shutting those down by subsidizing renewables so that they undercut the price. Fossil fuels? Nope, we're eliminating those. Oh, and another thing, how are we going to transmit that energy as the ancient power grid already has problems with the volume now?

 

[interrobang]

It's amazing this technology hasn't advanced more over the years.

 

[Catch50]

It's amazing this technology hasn't advanced more over the years.

No it's not. Try to understand the history of technology. There are physical limits.

 

[pawrestlersintn]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/t...newsntp&cvid=0707081ae4ff441097c70c832332aa0f

One issue is the destruction of marine life from the intake of sea water for desalination. Even with the use of 1 millimeter screens, the smallest there is, you would still suck in plankton. So, you would still destroy some marine live and larvae.

Should we be concerned about destroying larvae and plankton?

One millimeter filters are the smallest there are? I regularly sell and recommend 1 micron filters, 0.001 millimeter. To your point, though, some plankton are smaller than 1 micron, so some would be lost. However, when backwashing these filters, it would release Concentrated plankton, so anything that eats plankton would love it.

 

[WPTLION]

Why not just use cloth masks they stop everything.

 

[Lesgo_Brandon]

Hey this solves the rising oceans which are totally going to flood all of Miami this decade! De-salted ocean water for everyone!

 

[JR4PSU]

Okay, setting aside the issues revolving around the effect on marine life and the disposal of the resulting brine, let's look at one huge issue that that article really doesn't address.

Where is the energy gonna come from to run these plants? And we're talking a huge amount of energy. California already has an energy crisis that is growing worse. And that doesn't even take into account the mandate to go all electric for vehicular transit in the next decade or so. So you'll have all these demands for energy, where's it gonna come from? Renewables? BwaHawHawHaw!!! Nuclear? Nope, we're shutting those down by subsidizing renewables so that they undercut the price. Fossil fuels? Nope, we're eliminating those. Oh, and another thing, how are we going to transmit that energy as the ancient power grid already has problems with the volume now?

It's all ball bearings, these days.

 

[JR4PSU]

One millimeter filters are the smallest there are? I regularly sell and recommend 1 micron filters, 0.001 millimeter. To your point, though, some plankton are smaller than 1 micron, so some would be lost. However, when backwashing these filters, it would release Concentrated plankton, so anything that eats plankton would love it.

What I really was after was whether or not some lefties on this board would be concerned about plankton losing their lives.

 

[interrobang]

No it's not. Try to understand the history of technology. There are physical limits.

There have been physical limits to a lot of things that were overcome.

Like this one

This desalination breakthrough could make clean water cheaper

These findings could lead to increased access to clean water and lower water bills for individual homes and large users alike.

www.weforum.org

 

[Catch50]

There have been physical limits to a lot of things that were overcome.

Like this one

This desalination breakthrough could make clean water cheaper

These findings could lead to increased access to clean water and lower water bills for individual homes and large users alike.

www.weforum.org

Wrong.

Limits are NEVER overcome. They are at best approached.

 

[LafayetteBear]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/t...newsntp&cvid=0707081ae4ff441097c70c832332aa0f

One issue is the destruction of marine life from the intake of sea water for desalination. Even with the use of 1 millimeter screens, the smallest there is, you would still suck in plankton. So, you would still destroy some marine live and larvae.

Should we be concerned about destroying larvae and plankton?

1. Nice outfit (and signs) JR. Green is certainly your color.
2. So plankton is in short supply?
3. Color me shocked at your concern about plankton, Mr. Environmentalist.

 

[LafayetteBear]

There have been physical limits to a lot of things that were overcome.

Like this one

This desalination breakthrough could make clean water cheaper

These findings could lead to increased access to clean water and lower water bills for individual homes and large users alike.

www.weforum.org

Interrobang: Thanks for posting that article. Very interesting. I remain of the opinion that the REAL news is most often found in scientific and technological innovations/discoveries. The rest of the "news" is often just humans arguing about politics, culture, etc.

 

[JR4PSU]

1. Nice outfit (and signs) JR. Green is certainly your color.
2. So plankton is in short supply?
3. Color me shocked at your concern about plankton, Mr. Environmentalist.

LOL!! You aren’t very bright.

 

[junior1]

What I really was after was whether or not some lefties on this board would be concerned about plankton losing their lives.

plankton is more important that water for farms, the wineries and of course those pesky humans

 

[Hotshoe]

Wrong.

Limits are NEVER overcome. They are at best approached.

You're hilarious. California was supposed to be off of Colorado River by the year 2000. They don't contribute a drop to the Colorado. The headwaters are in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.

 

[interrobang]

History is full of limits that have been overcome and overcome again.

 

[Catch50]

You're hilarious. California was supposed to be off of Colorado River by the year 2000. They don't contribute a drop to the Colorado. The headwaters are in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.

There's only a finite amount of available water in any given year. No matter where it comes from.

 

[interrobang]

There's only a finite amount of available water in any given year. No matter where it comes from.

Yes, finite amount of water. But not a finite amount of storage of that water runoff

 

[Ski]

plankton is more important that water for farms, the wineries and of course those pesky humans

Exactly. Instead of getting water from the oceans for humans we should be dumping many Californians into the ocean. Win/win.